Our Crowdfunding Groups
Texas Crew is a co-ed rowing club at the University of Texas. Our vision is to achieve success at the highest level in an environment that provides competition, dedication and teamwork. We practice Monday- Friday from 5:15-7:15 AM & Saturday from 6-8 AM at Lady Bird Lake. At the core, we are a group of individuals who are passionate about this incredible sport and hope to see it thrive.
We are a sports organization that is over 70 people wide, making us the largest club sport at the University of Texas. With so many athletes, we have 4 coaches to train us and work us past our limits. Since our organization is fully student run, dues range from $625-$750/semester, making us one of the most expensive rowing clubs in the nation because of the significant distance we need to travel to race. In the fall of 2013, the same thunderstorm that flooded Zilker Park also unforeseeably damaged $30,000 worth of our equipment. That year insufficient funding jeopardized the existence of the women's squad and prevented the entire team from competing at the ACRA National Championships in Gainesville, Georgia.
Nevertheless, the men’s and women’s varsity teams have more than doubled in size over the past couple years and have medaled at national regattas despite these setbacks. With our head coach leading the team in his third consecutive year, we are determined to turn our program around.
We look forward not only to competing at national and local regattas, but also claiming 1st place and lighting the Tower orange. As athletes we push ourselves at every practice, outside work out, and during the off-season. With your help fundraising last year, we were able to budget the purchase of a new Hudson racing four, and that is only the start for our growing team. This year our goal is to raise $12,000. This will allow us to continue lowering dues, make rowing more accessible, as well as help purchase new racing shells that will hopefully be rowed to many wins for Texas Crew in years to come!
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and every donation will be tax-deductible. Texas Crew is a non-profit student run organization. Thank you all for the support! We cannot even begin to express what your donation means to us. We would not be the team we are today without all your help!
Contact Us:
Website: http://texas-crew.github.io/
Facebook: @Texas Crew
Twitter: @Texas_Crew, #texascrewfundraising
Email: texascrewfundraising@gmail.com
Receive a social media shout out and thank you via Facebook and Twitter! (A $25 donation will pay for the tools needed to fix boats)
Receive a handwritten thank you card from novice and varsity captains. (A $50 donation will pay for a full uniform)
Receive a team picture signed by the team captains and coaches. (A $100 donation will get us a new cox box mic)
Recognition on the Texas Crew website (A donation of $500 gets us a new cox box!)
Your Name will be placed on the seat of one of our boats (A donation of $1000 will help pay for a set of 4 oars)
Your Name will be placed on an oar (A donation of $1500 will help pay for 2 rowing machines)
You and the names you wish to honor will be placed on a set of oars (8) (A donation of $3000 will help pay for a set of 8 oars)
Your Name or the name you wish to honor will be placed on one of our 2 person boats (A donation of $7500 will help pay for a new equipment set of weights)
Your Name or the name you wish to honor will be placed on a 4 person boat (A donation of $10000 will help pay for a new single boat)
Your Name or the name you wish to honor will be placed on an 8 person boat (A donation of $15000 will help us get a new 4 person boat!)
