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Kick off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Beth Kohl, the President of Rowing Cares and Founder and Executive Director of Survivor Rowing Network; and rower, survivor and Pink Ribbon Row Seattle organizer Angie Gabel.

The Survivor Rowing Network is on a mission to create more opportunities for cancer survivors to row. Since launching in 2023, SRN has grown to 27 survivor rowing programs. This year, for the first time ever, the Head of the Charles regatta will host a Survivor Rowing Network event, featuring 11 women’s 8s, all of them breast cancer survivors!

QUICK LOOK

00:00 - Intro
01:40 - The Huddle
03:20 - Rowing Week on a scale of 1 to 10
06:38 - The Hot Seat Q&A
08:32 - Beth’s height caught the attention of the Smith College rowing coach
11:57 - Beth’s tall children followed in her rowing footsteps
13:46 - Angie found rowing after a divorce and move to Austin, TX
18:58 - Angie’s rowing community got her through breast cancer treatment and recovery
19:59 - Angie’s motivation to create Pulling for Pink, and involvement with Row for the Cure, Pink Ribbon Row
21:57 - Angie’s return to rowing at Head of the Charles
24:46 - Pink Robbin Row by the numbers
25:44 - How Survivor Rowing Network learned lessons from its predecessors, and became a successful grant-making organization
30:15 - First-ever Survivor Row event at Head of the Charles
32:32 - Survivor rows, survivor programs, and creating community
34:54 - Outro

Steady State Podcast is written, produced, hosted, and edited by Rachel Freedman and Tara Morgan. Tara provides additional audio engineering and is our sponsor coordinator. Rachel manages the website, social media, and e-newsletter. Our theme music is by Jonas Hipper.

Episode Mentions

CLUBS
Austin Rowing Club
Maritime Rowing Club
Saugatuck Rowing Club

COACHES
Tom Mendenhall
Liz Trond

LEADERSHIP
🎧 Bobby Smith (Crew Classic)
🎧 Kathy Frederick (Row for the Cure)
Holly Metcalf

MOVIES
The River Wild

ORGANIZATIONS
Recovery on Water
Rowing Cares
Survivor Rowing Network
Susan G. Komen Foundation
WeCanRow

ROWERS
🎧 Napoleon Griffin
Nancy Storrs

REGATTAS 
5280 regatta
Head of the Bull Trout Regatta
World Rowing Masters Championship
Head of the Charles
King’s Head Regatta
Pink Ribbon Row
Pulling for Pink
🎧 Row for the Cure
Rowing Cares San Diego

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS
Smith College
Yale University