GRP Announces '14-'15 Sponsors
Last Updated: 27.Oct.2014
The Green Racing Project is pleased to offer an update on our sponsor relationships for the 2014-2015 season! These companies’ generosity ensures that GRP athletes have the resources they need to train and compete at the highest level, day-in and day-out. They all share in Craftsbury’s mission of promoting environmental sustainability, lifelong sport, and elite competition, and by supporting the GRP, they’re putting their money where their mouth is. Please join us in offering our appreciation!
(Please click here for a full-size version of our partner poster, left.)
Presenting Partners
You may have heard of them as the first rowing camp in North America, or perhaps as the most consistent snow in the east, but even without participating in one of the COC's programs, you can share the same great Craftsbury setting, excellent food, and facilities as group or individual guests. Craftsbury has the pleasure of hosting the Green Racing Project Rowing, Skiing, and Biathlon Teams at the Center.
Since 1976, Concept2 has been making innovative rowing products, from their Indoor Rowers to the Dreissigacker Racing Oars. In 2009, Concept2 introduced the SkiErg. Whether you're a rower, a skier, or neither one, Concept2's products will help you get fit, stay fit, win your race, or train for your primary sport.
Gold Partners
JL Racing (GRP Row)
JL is a family-owned business, run and staffed by athletes. For over 25 years, they've been designing, engineering, and manufacturing technical training and racing clothing in California--even before it was cool to be 100% American made!
Podiumwear (GRP Ski)
Gold Medal Fit, Quality, Price, Service & Delivery. Podiumwear offers fully custom team uniforms and apparel for alpine skiing, cycling, nordic skiing, cross-country running, track, and ultimate.
START Ski Poles (GRP Ski)
Founded over 30 years ago, Start Ski Wax and Poles has morphed from one man’s work into one of the leading wax companies in the world. Start values innovation, reliability, and honesty, providing a wide variety of products that skiers need to succeed.
Silver Partners
Rudy Project (GRP Ski)
Throughout the world, Italian design is a distinctive mark of elegance. Rudy Project sunglasses and prescription glasses for sport are designed to be safe, comfortable and ""technologically cool"".
Bliz Active Eyewear (GRP Row)
Bliz produces radically designed eyewear for Nordic skiing, Cycling, Running, Biathlon, and now Rowing, with functionality beyond your imagination. Active eyewear for active people.
Performance, style and comfort crafted into the most versatile line of outdoor clothing. Making outdoor clothing is really as much art as science. It's about choosing the right fabrics, understanding the different properties of those fabrics, and knitting for specific outdoor activities. Ibex: the art of wool.
Mammut (GRP Ski)
Mammut is a Swiss-based company that has specialized in mountain sports since 1862. The company is a leading manufacturer of technical clothing, footwear, climbing gear and alpine equipment. Mammut is driven by a continuous quest for innovation and its products are distinguished by the highest quality, functionality and safety, embodying Swiss technology and perfection. Mammut aims to assume its social responsibility, including social responsibility towards its partners, and to leave behind the best possible ecological footprint so that future generations can be mountaineers as well.
Bronze Partners
CaldwellSport (GRP Ski)
Caldwell Sport provides service and selection of cross country racing skis at the highest level available. They are not a full-service retail shop. They don't do boots, poles, clothing, accessories, or even step-down ski models. They focus their attention on what they do best, and they continually strive to improve the company and its services. They're interested in working with racers at all levels who want the best skis they can get.
Sauce Headwear was founded by a former Canadian National Team Cross-Country skier as a way to support her ski racing. Frustrated with traditional winter headwear, Sauce founder Shayla Swanson set out to create functional, stylish and comfortable products that met the needs of elite winter athletes and outdoor enthusiasts alike. Simply put, the people behind Sauce are winter headwear experts.
Contributing Partners
Since 1991, Pumpkin Harbor Designs has produced quality, eye-catching embroidery, screen printing and promotional products for an ever-growing number of businesses, schools and individuals. Based in Jeffersonville, VT.
After years honing their skills in the brewing and process industry, LNB's founders set forth to create a brewery with a simple mission; to produce honest beer. The result is a 7,000bbl brewery located in Northern Vermont that is capable of brewing any style of ales and lagers. The brewery takes inspiration from lesser known European beer styles, along with local Vermont life to guide their brews. The attention to detail, modern equipment, and love for beer help produce truly authentic, unique beers.
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