Introduction

Please contact us now to become one of our sponsors.

We dedicate this site to our sponsors, who provide support, financial and product donations, discounts, wholesale pricing, as well as services including media coverage, insurance, and travel arrangements.

You will find these generous people and their companies highlighted on our site, as our way of saying, "Thank You!"

Please visit their sites, and consider their products to be among the best, as they have passed rigorous tests on the some of the world's demanding whitewater and critically rough kids.

We welcome new sponsors to join our team as we kayak, photograph and publish stories of the exciting and challenging world of whitewater racing.

 

Our Goals

We plan to ascend to the top of the Whitewater Racing World in the coming years.

With Vision, Focus, Persistence, Discipline and Commitment we will race in the world's top races and run some of the best whitewater in with confidence and precision.

 

What We Can Do For You?

Below you will find the range of services we continue to provide

to our sponsors as a way of showing our appreciation: 

                

Our Athletes include your logo on their gear and wear all apparel

during all training and racing camps.

 

* Your product visibility would increase substantially and would appear on 3 continents and in the media throughout the world.

* Your Company logo and contact information would be displayed on the FRPA Team van and trailer.

* Your Company name would be prominently displayed on the FRPA web site with easy access to your products.

* Your Company name would be prominently displayed on the individual race and training kayaks of each athlete.  

* Throughout the media circles, your Company name would be mentioned in any coverage we receive.

* After each race or training camp, your Company would receive a letter from the sponsored athletes stating their results and report from riverside.

 

* Endorsement of your product, lending an important "stamp of approval" to your company's name.

* Product Testing in some of the most demanding circumstances imaginable.      

* Print-Media Publications , featuring photos and accounts of your product in use.        

 
FRPA athletes have appeared in many publications and media throughout the world including - NBC Nightly News, Denver NBC Affiliate News Programs, Boulder Daily Camera, Rocky Mountain News, LA Times, South Bend Tribune, Washington Post, NY Times, Al Jazeera TV, Paddler Magazine, Kayak Magazine, Wildwater West DVD, ICF Junior World Championship DVD and on many internet sites. See our MEDIA page


Our Sponsorship Needs fall into three broad areas: 

Equipment + Supplies,  Services  and  Financial Needs

1. Equipment and Supplies

It takes an enormous amount of equipment and supplies to train and race 50 weeks each year through all of the worst elements. We rely on generous and supportive sponsors to provide our most crucial items.

(Some of the many things needed, but not limited to: Vans or mini-busses, Video Cameras, Digital Still Cameras, Lenses for Digital Camera Frames, Laptops for Video Review and Analysis, Paddles, Life Jackets and Racing Helemts.)

2. Services

We use travel, recruitment, communication, media services in abundance. We depend on the the generosity of professionals and suppliers to accomplish our goals.

(Some of the many things needed here are: Cell phones, web designers, publishers, walkie-talkies, electronic timing systems and car repair services)

3. Financial

Our team members pay most of their own way, but still we seek cash donations to offset training camp fees, travel costs, team permit and logistical costs, especially when there are complex media and promotional efforts at stake.     

The average athlete on our Elite travel Team spends nearly $10,000.00 each year to reach his/her goals of becoming an Olympic Hopeful in Whitewater Slalom. More than 130 days each and every year are spent on the road for races and training camps. This means hotels, flights, gas and access and coaching fees every month. Without cash, we would be limited in each athletes growth to an elite athlete.

(Just a few of an athletes typical costs just to stay involved in high level racing: New kayak yearly- 2000.00, Paddle-350.00, Skirts for kayak-120.00 and Paddle wear-350.00)

Thanks for your consideration and support!

    


If you can be of help, know someone who can, or have further ideas, please contact the FRPA. 

 

FRPA athletes and coaches thank our current 2008 Sponsors. Without their support, we could never be as successful.

                                                                          

Please pay a visit to our sponsors.