Meet the U.S. National Rowing Team at Palmer Square

April 18, 2011

PRINCETON, N.J. – Palmer Square will once again host the U.S. National Team on Saturday, May 7, from 1 to 3 p.m. on the green in Princeton, N.J. The event, presented by Athletes on the Water, USRowing and Palmer Square Management, is free and open to the public. Members of the Princeton community will get a chance to meet 2012 Olympic hopefuls and members of the U.S. Women’s National Rowing Team.

Olympic and national team athletes training for the 2012 Olympic Games in London will be on-site to autograph team posters and athlete trading cards. In addition, rowing machines and rowing shells will be on display.

“Being a part of the Princeton community is a big part of the Olympic journey,” said 2010 world champion Esther Lofgren. “We are just over a year out from the 2012 Olympic Games. We want to share our sport, our team and our dream with the community.”

For more information and directions to Palmer Square, visit www.palmersquare.com. Interested in getting involved? Contact Allison Frederick, USRowing Communications Manager at Allison@usrowing.org or (609) 751-0710.

USRowing’s national team athletes train at both the Finn M.W. Caspersen Rowing Center on Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J., as well as the Princeton University Boathouse on Lake Carnegie on Princeton University’s campus. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the U.S. won gold in the women’s eight, silver in the women’s single sculls and bronze in the men’s eight. Last year, the U.S. won four medals at the 2010 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, New Zealand.

USRowing is a nonprofit organization recognized by the United States Olympic Committee as the governing body for the sport of rowing in the United States. USRowing’s official suppliers include Boathouse Sports, Filippi, Croker Oars, Rudy Project, Concept2, Nielsen Kellerman and PowerHTV. USRowing also receives generous support from the National Rowing Foundation and its corporate sponsors, ANXeBusiness Corp and Voxer. For more information, visit www.usrowing.org. USRowing has joined forces with Team Arnstein to help ensure the U.S. Team's success leading up to the 2012 Olympic Games under a new corporate sponsorship campaign, The Row to London. For more information, please visit www.teamarnstein.com.

Allison Frederick

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