Plant High Rowing Association

Fee Structure

Fall Fee Schedule

Please mail checks to: PHRA, PO Box 10576 Tampa, FL 33679-0576

Our Mission
Plant High Rowing Association, Inc. (PHRA) exists to provide the sport activity of rowing to all students of H.B. Plant High School. It is the mission of the organization to provide a competitive team sport that is open and inclusive to the entire, diverse study body in accordance to its policies and procedures. Striking the balance of PHRA's mission of inclusiveness and competitiveness provide H.B. Plant High School students with an unparallel learning and growing experience both as athletes and people.

Methodology
As with many team sports, rowing is beneficial because it enables students to develop as athletes and as people. This happens in rowing through challenge, pursuing a standard of excellence and competition.

Challenge
Without challenge, humans cannot develop. Muscles and intellect develop through challenge; the same is true of character. The PHRA desires the development of student athletes in body, mind and spirit. Part of this development process is nurture. Just as the body and mind need time to rest, student athletes must be nurtured before and after challenges. Combining challenge and nurture creates an environment where student athletes are helped to develop and grow.

Standard of Excellence
Recognizing a higher standard is not entirely about being the best. It is about being able to develop student athletes to their full potential. Without recognizing the difference between mediocrity and excellence, it is impossible to help student athletes reach their full potential. PHRA supports this standard of excellence to help all student athletes on the Crew Team reach their personal and team goals.

Competition
Competition is closely related to standard of excellence. Competition helps all competitors realize how much improvement and growth is necessary and possible. Once this is realized and success in competition is made a goal, development occurs through pursuing that goal. Also, through competition, the standard of excellence is constantly being improved. This constant improvement in the standard of excellence helps those striving after it to develop even further. Without competition, an individual, a business, a team or an organization could never really grasp how great it could be.

Competition brings more sharply into focus the standard of excellence that exists. By striving to be the best in competition, PHRA comes to recognize more clearly its strengths and weaknesses - thereby enabling it to better serve its rowers as athletes and as people.