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Powerhouse Timing Named Official Timer of USRowing.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 31, 2007
Contact: Brett Johnson, USRowing Director of Communications, (609) 751-0707
Cambridge,
MA – USRowing has named Powerhouse Timing its Official Timer, the organizations announced on Wednesday. Beginning with the 2007 season, Powerhouse Timing will provide the industry’s most accurate timing systems and most reliable race management knowledge to all of USRowing’s national championship and national team selection events including the Youth National Championships, Club National Championships, National Championships, Masters National Championships, National Selection Regattas and National Team Trials.
Powerhouse Timing combines its real-time regatta management platform, its time-tested Racetrak application, and cutting-edge photofinish technology from Lynx Developers, the world leader in race results engineering, to present the most trustworthy results to America’s most important regattas.
“This new relationship with Powerhouse Timing will enable our competitors to race with the assurance that their results are being professionally and accurately taken and kept,” said USRowing Executive Director Glenn Merry. “Over the past few years, we have worked with Powerhouse for our national team selection events where they have provided exceptional service to our athletes and USRowing. We look forward to strengthening our partnership with Powerhouse Timing.” .
“We are extremely proud that USRowing has selected Powerhouse as the exclusive provider of timing services for its national championship and national team selection events,” said Jason Moody, president and CEO of Powerhouse Timing. “We believe this relationship will raise the standard of results for national level rowing events and provide a better experience for competitors and spectators alike.”
About PowerHouseTiming
Powerhouse Timing, the Official Timing Provider of the Head Of The Charles® regatta, was founded in 2002 to provide professional timing software and services. The company is the industry’s leading innovator of software and technology to make rowing regattas easier to operate and results more accurate. Powerhouse Timing’s premier services assure a higher standard of race management.
About USRowings
The International Governing Body of Rowing (FISA) has selected Princeton, NJ and The Princeton National Rowing Association to host the FISA World Rowing Masters Regatta, September 7-10, 2006. More than 7,000 of the best rowers representing up to 45 countries, will travel to the United States to compete in the largest and most competitive masters rowing regatta in the world.
The 33rd Annual FISA World Rowing Masters Regatta will be held over 5 days at Mercer County Park, outside of Princeton, NJ in West Windsor. Hailed as one of the most prestigious regattas in the world, the regatta is the World Championships for masters (athletes over the age of twenty-seven) and will feature competitors well into their eighties and nineties.
About USRowing
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 Sponsor is Johnson & Johnson; its Official Suppliers are Hudson Boat Works and NIKE, Inc.; its Official Patron is Concept2; its Official Electronics Outfitter is Nielsen Kellerman; its Official Timer is Powerhouse Timing; and its Preferred Printer is Sport Graphics Printing. USRowing also receives generous support from the National Rowing Foundation.
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