Competition

USRowing Referees are tasked with ensuring the safety and fairness of regattas around the country. This means that Referees oversee making sure athlet...

The Regional Coordinator is the point person for their region, in charge of naming clinicians, helping recruit candidates and administering full licen...

There are 6 regions for Referees. They are the: Mid-Atlantic (Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington D.C, West Virginia, and Vergini...

You must have both an active USRowing membership and electronically signed membership agreement to be covered under USRowing’s insurance program for g...

Data Call happens at the end of the year, where all Referees need to have all information added to stay certified.

Candidates can upload regattas worked and which position they worked. Assistant and full Referees can also track which regattas they worked, positions...

RefCorps is the platform that all Referees use to track all regattas worked, attendance to the annual clinic. It’s also where Referees can see which r...

A Referee will need to work a minimum of 4 regatta days a year, attend the Annual Clinic, maintain a current SafeSport certification annually, and hav...

Yes, you’ll need to pass a background check to begin your process, and to maintain a license, a background check is required every two years. To reque...

Every USRowing licensed must have a current SafeSport certification, that needs to be updated every year.

Yes, which USRowing will provide. Notify USRowing HERE of your current referee status (candidate, assistant, full referee) and the amount of time y...

The Julian Wolf School for Referees, is the educational arm for the Referee Corps. They are in charge of developing all the educational content for Ca...

Once you’ve passed your Assistant Referee exam, you’ll still have to work a specific number of times for each position. Marshal twice Starter 5 times ...

You’ll need to observe 6 positions: Start Marshall, Chief Judge, Starter, Aligner/Judge at the Start, Chief Judge, Referee, and Control Commission.

First, please fill out the Referee Application here ! Once that’s done, you’ll need to make sure that you have a USRowing membership, be up-to-date w...

Yes, there are three ranks for Referees; Candidates, are people interested in becoming a Referee. Assistant Referees, are licensed referees, they can ...

Chief Referees are required for all sanctioning tiers except for Duals/Tris.

This option is for standard organizational members that do not participate in the USRowing insurance program, but want to utilize the USRowing Ref Cor...

The host organization must be a current U.S. organizational member of USRowing with annual membership.   Sanctioning fees must be paid in full one mon...

Designated as meeting the highest standards of fairness and safety.  Receive compliance reports on participating clubs and athletes, as well as unlimi...

Acute, or short term, side effects include a sudden change in physical appearance, a sudden shift in performance level (up or down), increased or flar...

Typically, a substance or method is performance enhancing when it improves sport performance and poses a health risk to an athlete. Performance enhanc...

Heart palpitations, headaches, respiratory distress, insomnia, tremors/shaking, dizziness, agitation/restlessness, chest pain, gastrointestinal upset,...

No supplement is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

You cannot rely on the label to tell you what is in the bottle.   Products can be mislabeled and might not include the proper amounts of intended ingr...

Just because a product claims to be natural, it does not make it safe to use. There are many natural substances that are toxic, poisonous, or deadly i...

Dietary supplements are products containing dietary or nutritional ingredients intended to supplement the diet.

To re-enroll in the USADA RTP, an athlete must send a return from retirement statement through to  athleteexpress@usada.org at least six months prior...

Athletes who are retiring from the sport of rowing can remove themselves from the RTP by e-mailing USADA at  athleteexpress@usada.org . Until confirma...

Athletes who are part of the CAP are required to submit their primary overnight location, typical training location(s), and competition schedule to th...

The Clean Athlete Program (CAP) includes athletes who are selected for a national team or are representing Team USA at international competitions, ath...

Another type of Whereabouts Failure is a missed test. If an athlete is not available for testing at the locations indicated on their Whereabouts Filin...

All athletes in the RTP who do not file their Quarterly Whereabouts Filing by the USADA deadline will be issued a Filing Failure. A Filing Failure fal...

Athletes in the USADA Registered Testing Pools must submit a Quarterly Whereabouts Filing. These athletes provide information including their living a...

Athletes in a Registered Testing Pool (RTP) will be required to submit detailed Quarterly Whereabouts Filings once enrolled. Athletes in the RTP are s...

The TUE submission form can be found   HERE .

The  USADA TUE policy  is consistent with the  WADA International Standard for Therapeutic Use Exemptions  and is designed to protect the rights of cl...

Yes, all competing athletes at USRowing and FISA events are subject to in-competition drug testing conducted by USADA. Athletes should be prepared for...

The  Global Drug Reference Online (DRO ) is a searchable database of the  WADA Prohibited List and is updated January 1. The DRO is the easiest way t...

If an athlete did not submit an ECG and/or complete the Eligibility Submission Form by the deadline, they can submit it for an administrative fee of $...