It was formed in the mid-70's by William G. Raoul and Terry Carney and takes its name from a rowing club that existed in Chattanooga in the late 19th century. When it was formed, it was loosely affiliated with UTC - mainly so that equipment could be acquired by gift and title transferred to the University for tax purposes. Lookout owns and maintains equipment for the use of its members. The club provides lessons for beginning rowers as well as clinics for intermediate and advanced members. LRC is unique in that most of its members learned to row as adults and they learn to row in sculling boats.
Most rowers learn to row in college as members of sweep oared crews and never learn sculling.
Your children are lucky because they can acquire this skill early and you are lucky because you have an activity here that you can learn with them. The Chattanooga Junior Rowing program is an activity sponsored by Chattanooga Rowing in its effort to make the sport of rowing available to all high school age students throughout the community. While the program is administered by the parents of the rowers and other interested adults, Chattanooga Rowing provides most of the equipment for the program. It also provides a place for the group to practice as well. Most of the program costs are borne by the parent support group.