Lake Merritt Rowing Club - LMRC

Come have fun in the sun and make new friends at our youth summer camps!

Successful Return to Rowing!

We loved having a number of previous LMRC members back in the boathouse and back in a boat. Thank you to everyone who came out!

Open Water Regatta 2026

Good work to James and Thiago for completing the Endurance Course! The weather was gloomy but they perservered!

PLAY LIKE A GIRL+

LMRC rowers will be at the FREE Play Like A Girl+ sporting event Sunday, May 3, from 10a-1p showcasing rowing technique on ergs.

✨ Explore 31 stations of sports ranging from adaptive skiing to parkour
✨ Meet professional athletes
✨ Event targeted for female-identifying, gender nonbinary, gender non-conforming, and gender q***r youth

🚨 MISSING PERSON 🚨

Amy, one of our rowers, is missing. PLEASE SHARE and contact OPD Missing Persons Unit with any information.

New Coach Alert!

Max (he/him) has joined LMRC’s Coaching Staff in the Novice Coach position.

Max signed up for learn to row through LMRC’s Laney College grant program. He was hooked from day one because rowing combined all his favorite things: water, community, birds, physical challenges, and the need to work together. He started rowing with the novice team and he now rows with the intermediate team and cox’s for any team that needs it.

Currently Mac is enrolled at Samuel Merritt University, getting his masters degree in Occupational Therapy. His favorite foods include laminated dough, haiga rice, and anything cooked by his girlfriend/Lake Merritt’s Number One Fan, Dana Croteau. Max has a cat and a bunny and will talk to you about animals anytime you like. Or rowing. Or anything else, really.

Welcome Max!

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