Youth Team

The Youth Rowing Team is available to students in 7th - 12th grade (13 -18 years old). The team is open to anyone in the greater Portland area - we have student athletes from Portland, West Linn, Beaverton, Tigard-Tualatin, Oregon City, Wilsonville, as well as Lake Oswego.
  • Open to 7th, 8th and high school students, ages 13 - 18
  • Anyone can join - NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Practice is daily after school, Monday through Friday at 3:45 - 6:15, and Saturday mornings 7:30 - 10:00am. We have a Fall racing season, Winter training season, Spring racing season, plus options to row during the summer months.  During the Fall and Spring racing seasons we are "on the water", with a focus on boat skills and speed. Winter season is dryland practice and the focus is on strength training and conditioning. LOCR practices at Palisades Elementary School for winter training.

Rowers new to the sport are considered Novice and after their first year advance to Varsity. Through a partnership with the local high schools, Varsity athletes have an opportunity to "letter" just as they would in a traditional sport through their school.

Fall and Spring seasons the team travels to Regattas around the Northwest. At LOCR everyone practices and everyone races.

  • LOCR ROWERS TAKE TEN MEDALS AT DEXTER LAKE
    April 21, 2013 | by Dick Irving
    The Lake Oswego Community Rowing team, consisting of 71 youth (8th-12th grade), 3 masters (over 25 years old) and eight coaches, participated at The Covered Bridge Regatta on Dexter Lake near Eugene on April 13th and 14th. (click the link for the full article)
  • LOCR ROWING IN PRESTIGIOUS SAN DIEGO CREW CLASSIC
    April 1, 2013 | by Dick Irving
    Nine members of the Lake Oswego Community Rowing’s Women’s Varsity youth team will compete with 20 other high school crews for the Gilman-Mulliken Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic, regarded as the first major national regatta of the spring season. The event will take place on April 6th and involves 21 junior women crews, all rated “A.” ....continued
  • LOCR Represents at the Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston/Cambridge
    October 25, 2012 | by Ron Blaj
    In glorious New England fall weather, competing among the best-of-the-best, both nationally and internationally, Lake Oswego Community Rowing (LOCR) turned in a solid performance at the 48th Head-of-the-Charles Regatta in Boston/Cambridge, MA on October 20 and 21....continued
  • LOCR Turns In Solid Showing at Rowing Youth Nationals
    June 14, 2012
    During racing June 8 – 10 at USRowing Youth National Championships in Oak Ridge, TN, Lake Oswego Community Rowing athletes turned in very solid performances, despite the unfamiliar heat and humidity.