ORT Men - Gore Canyon ColoradoU.S. Nationals
ORT Women - Gore Canyon ColoradoU.S. Nationals
ORT Women - Payette River IdahoPBR Event
9/27/07
ORT Men-Gore Canyon Colorado US Nationals
ORT Men - Gore Canyon ColoradoU.S. Nationals
ORT Women - Gore Canyon ColoradoU.S. Nationals
ORT Women - Payette River Idaho
ORT Bio
Oregon Rafting Team (ORT)
ORT began it’s evolution in 2002 when 20 year river running veteran and football coach Tim Brink gathered a crew of his past and current teammates from rugby and college football for a local race. After dominating the regional whitewater raft racing scene for a number of years, an unfortunate career ending rugby injury forced Tim to focus his competitive fervor exclusively to raft racing hence ORT began. After training one summer with world class guides from Colorado, Tim returned home to the Portland area with some new found racing knowledge and began recruiting paddlers to form both men’s and women’s racing teams. During the initial season, ORT raced with a co-ed team as recruiting enough committed paddlers to form two teams proved to be difficult. That is not the case any longer. In 2007 ORT traveled to Colorado with two full teams as the women and men each placed in the top five nationally.
ORT athletes will have to compete with each other to earn a spot on the “Red” team for 2008. However, ORT has a no cut policy as equipment is provided by Aire rafts, Aquabound Paddles, WRSI helmets, and Immersion Research, we now have enough gear to race 3-4 teams at any given event across the country. The athletic backgrounds of our athletes include 4 former college linebackers, dragon boat racers, endurance runners, skiers, snowboarders, mixed martial arts, kayakers, catarafters, drift boaters, skateboarders, rugby, and of course a few river guides.
Off the water once the gear is put away all the seriousness stops and the raging begins. With nicknames like the Nightcrawler, Hoser, Ox, Timber, the Twin Towers, WFE, Cuddy, etc., let your imagination do the rest and the resulting perception may actually be accurate. We are proud to say that ORT is the first of it’s kind. Not a team of guides or even river veterans, but rather an athletic, charismatic body of energy that successfully engages in a variety of adventures throughout the year while reinforcing the bonds we have created through the medium of whitewater raft racing. ORT, we are more than just a racing team.
www.oregonraftingteam.com
ORT began it’s evolution in 2002 when 20 year river running veteran and football coach Tim Brink gathered a crew of his past and current teammates from rugby and college football for a local race. After dominating the regional whitewater raft racing scene for a number of years, an unfortunate career ending rugby injury forced Tim to focus his competitive fervor exclusively to raft racing hence ORT began. After training one summer with world class guides from Colorado, Tim returned home to the Portland area with some new found racing knowledge and began recruiting paddlers to form both men’s and women’s racing teams. During the initial season, ORT raced with a co-ed team as recruiting enough committed paddlers to form two teams proved to be difficult. That is not the case any longer. In 2007 ORT traveled to Colorado with two full teams as the women and men each placed in the top five nationally.
ORT athletes will have to compete with each other to earn a spot on the “Red” team for 2008. However, ORT has a no cut policy as equipment is provided by Aire rafts, Aquabound Paddles, WRSI helmets, and Immersion Research, we now have enough gear to race 3-4 teams at any given event across the country. The athletic backgrounds of our athletes include 4 former college linebackers, dragon boat racers, endurance runners, skiers, snowboarders, mixed martial arts, kayakers, catarafters, drift boaters, skateboarders, rugby, and of course a few river guides.
Off the water once the gear is put away all the seriousness stops and the raging begins. With nicknames like the Nightcrawler, Hoser, Ox, Timber, the Twin Towers, WFE, Cuddy, etc., let your imagination do the rest and the resulting perception may actually be accurate. We are proud to say that ORT is the first of it’s kind. Not a team of guides or even river veterans, but rather an athletic, charismatic body of energy that successfully engages in a variety of adventures throughout the year while reinforcing the bonds we have created through the medium of whitewater raft racing. ORT, we are more than just a racing team.
www.oregonraftingteam.com
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