Ms. Susan K.B. Urbas

Dr. Susan K.B. Urbas ’68 â€" Attorney. Co-founder Friends of the Chicago River . Chairwoman of the Women’s Olympic Rowing Team Committee. World record holder in double sculling at the World Marathon Rowing Championships, 1992

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c/o SUSAN K.B. URBAS400 E. RANDOLPH, #2415CHICAGO, IL 60601

Contact #s: 312-616-0057

Coach Susan Urbas has been a competitor and leader in the sport of rowing for the past thirty years.She has held numerous leadership positions at the local, regional, and national levels of the sport, including many years as a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Rowing Association, as President of the National Women,s Rowing Association, as a member and as Chair of the U.S. Women,s Olympic Rowing Committee, as Chair of the Midwest Rowing Council, and as President of the Chicago River Navy.She has been a licensed rowing official since 1980, and has coached at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University.

Susan co-founded the University of Chicago Women,s Crew in 1975 (first collegiate rowing program in Illinois), the Chicago Boat Club (now the Chicago River Rowing & Paddling Center) in 1979, and the Chicago Rowing Center in 2000.She is also a member of the Pennsylvania Athletic Club Rowing Association (Philadelphia).She has won numerous regional and national championship medals as both a sweep rower and sculler in lightweight and open weight events.

Susan has coached hundreds of novice, intermediate, senior, elite, and masters rowers, sweep rowing and sculling, in collegiate and club programs, and has helped aspiring elite athletes work their way through the national team training pipeline for the annual World Championships and quadrennial Olympic Games.

Boyer reports that other rowing venues were considered as options, but for sports coordinators like Susan Urbas, President of the Chicago River Rowing & Paddling Center, Crystal Lake is the best choice.

"There simply is no suitable body of water for this type of sprint-racing event in Chicago or the near suburbs," Urbas explains.

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For sports coordinators like Susan Urbas, president of the Chicago River Rowing & Paddling Center , who helped select the site, Crystal Lake had a practical purpose."There simply is no suitable body of water for this type of sprint-racing event in Chicago or the near suburbs," she says.

The long list of panel members advising the city on the park includes Susan Urbas, whose group's purpose differs from some others.As president of the Chicago River Rowing and Paddling Center, Ms. Urbas contends that any fitting tribute will include a community boathouse.

DuSable's history, she said, belongs to everyone."If you have a theory about where he came from and make it yours, you can," she said.Hers happens to be that he paddled in on a canoe.

Susan K.B. Urbas, President

Address :

400 E. Randolph Street, Suite 2415

City :

Call Susan Urbas.You can reach her by phone at (312) 458-0810 or by e-mail at chicagoriverrowing@yahoo.com Send correspondence to P.O. Box 811190, Chicago, IL 60681-1190 Or visit the CRRPC at www.chicagorowing.org
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Looking for a permanent home and enough water to grow a fledgling club, founder Susan Urbas convinced the city to let her new venture share a dilapidated, abandoned Coast Guard Station with the city's Marine Police.