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History

The Midwest Scholastic Rowing Championship (MSRC) has been held at Harsha Lake since 2005. In 2010, nearly 1800 rowers competed, representing 50 teams from 12 states. It is one of the largest regattas in the nation and serves as a qualifier for both the SRRA and USRowing the National Championships.

Parts of the course were acquired from the 1984 Olympic course in Los Angeles, including the start dock and the lanes. Tim Royalty has been expertly installing and maintaining the course ever since.

MSRA Academic Athletes Recognition

The Midwest Scholastic Rowing Association (MSRA) Awards Committee will distribute award certificates to their Academic Athletes at the Championship Regatta. These Academic Athletes are high School juniors who achieved both academic and athletic requirements:

• 3.5 GPA
• 1800 SAT or 27 ACT score
• rowed in the MSCR finals in 10th grade, or
• rowed at SRAA, US Junior Nationals, or Junior Worlds

Congratulations to these 2012 honorees and their teams:

Academic Athlete	Team
Egan Berne	Loyola Academy
Bryan DeVries	Culver Academies
Alexandra Ding	Culver Academies
Sam Durkin	Loyola Academy
John Hocter	Loyola Academy
Jack Hu	Skyline
Robert Murphy	Loyola Academy
Kelly Power	Fox Chapel
Joy Shen	Culver Academies
Owen Skelding	St. Ignatius Chicago
Conor Walsh	Loyola Academy
Eliza Weaver	New Trier
Benjamin Whitehead	Hawken
Gabriel Whitehead	Hawken

Download the official notice.

Facilities

The MSRC venue is centered on the expansive public beach area of East Fork Lake State Park. It offers a variety of food and drink vendors, as well as merchandise vendors.

Pavilion

The Matt Maupin Pavilion was constructed in 2008, and completed in 2009, specifically to support rowing events at Harsha Lake. The large open pavilion features beautiful and durable stone supports with a stone fireplace and a unique state of the art audio visual capacity for showing closed circuit and other programs on a TV screen mounted on the fireplace. This pavilion honors our Clermont County serviceman Matt Maupin, who was a rower with the Clermont High Schools Crew in 2001 when he and his crew won a gold medal at the Midwest Championship at this very site.

Host Clubs

The MSRC is hosted by three local rowing organizations:

• Clermont Crew
• Cincinnati Country Day Crew
• Cincinnati Rowing Association

These clubs are proud to show off their great water and welcome teams from all over the Midwest to what we feel is one of the most enjoyable regatta environments available.

Local Cuisine

Teams from out-of-town might want to sample some uniquely local eateries:

• Skyline Chili
• Gold Star Chili
• Montgomery Inn Ribs (Boathouse location!!)
• Great Scott Diner