SandRidge Sky Trail credit: Georgie Read Hanging tightly on to the safety harness firmly attached to the rail above her, she lingered a few seconds on the plank, trying to keep her balance against the unrelenting push of the wind before going back to the platform of the sky trail. She smiled broadly. “It’s keeping […]
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Paddling proponent
Abowitz wasn’t the first person to try to share rowing with Oklahoma, but he did help the sport gain its footing in Oklahoma City long before it was a well-known phenomenon. “Oklahoma comes late to these things,” Abowitz said of rowing. The sport hooked Abowitz at the University of Pennsylvania, but when he came to […]
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Growing rowing
The sport of rowing continues to make a splash in Oklahoma City. In fact, the United States national rowing team has taken so much of a liking to the Oklahoma City River, it decided to make the waterway its new home. The USRowing team will consolidate its lightweight division training operations to the Oklahoma City […]