All rowing takes place on the beautiful Potomac River, the training site of decades of championship crews from the Washington DC area. With three-plus miles upstream and unlimited access downstream, campers row past numerous historic sites, including the Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson monuments. The weekly session starts Sunday afternoon with a orientation meeting where the campers meet the staff of the Georgetown Rowing Camp and have their first rowing session. There are two daily rowing sessions on Monday through Wednesday, plus a rowing and wrap-up session on Thursday morning. Coaches focus on rowing technique, race strategy, and team building, so all levels of rowers and coxswains, from novice to advanced, make significant improvements in their athletic and teamwork abilities.
Campers learn to examine their rowing technique on video and see their progress.
Additional reading material is given to every participant for reference. Under the guidance of Georgetown University's elite coaching crew, all rowers make rapid progress. Advanced athletes benefit from the high-level coaching of the staff of Olympians and veteran coaches. Novices quickly graduate from training barges to racing shells. Coxswains are given specialized instruction clinics to help them improve their steering techniques, drill sequences, and race tactics.