VOLUNTEER WITH ORRA
ORRA counts on the unwavering support of our volunteers to help make each hosted regatta and our club run smoothly.
ORRA hosts and holds regattas as our primary fundraisers. Volunteers are essential to making our regattas run smoothly, a great experience for visiting teams, and make our regattas successful. The proceeds from our regattas keep our programs affordable, pay the majority of our bills, help us buy and maintain all our equipment, and the race course. Without our regattas, the cost of our adult and youth programs would be significantly higher.
This is where you, the rower, parent, brother, sister, neighbor, etc come in the regatta picture. ALL support positions are staffed by you – THE VOLUNTEER! ORRA has two full time employees – They busy year-round: planning, coordinating and coaching. Besides these folks, the Board of Directors (volunteers too) and a couple of part time coaches (most of whom have full time jobs), the regattas are entirely VOLUNTEER planned, organized, and run. In addition to the regattas, there are “ORRA Workdays” in the months, weeks and days leading up to regattas. During these workdays, volunteers start getting the race course installed (we have to install and remove the course and components as our permits require – in other words, we can’t just leave the race course in all the time. Also on these workdays we do all the clean-up and prep before the regattas.
View ORRA’s Volunteer Policy.