Any gym, high school, college, university, or club rowing team and its rowers including lightweight, heavyweight, men’s and women’s teams. Or anyone with access to a boat or rowing machine can also participate! 

No – Just a commitment to fundraising for pediatric brain cancer. And to sweeten the deal you'll receive a Connor's Erg singlet if you raise over $35! We also have other awesome perks for super FUNdraisers!

Connor’s Erg is an erg relay race to 100km, and can be done in several formats, whatever works for your group.

Traditionally it’s done in a relay format with each member rowing 1km.

Some guidelines:

Men: Can have up to 5 ergs (each erg pulling 20km, with up to 5-6 rowers)

Women: Can have up to 6 ergs (each erg puling 16.7km, with up to 5-6 rowers)

We understand not all teams or individuals will be able to do a 100km challenge, so we ask you to Row Your Way Any Day in February. Think of creative and fun ways to show the world that brains matter!

If you're unable to do a traditional relay, that's ok, you can row your own way - whether it's on an erg, or on the water, with your squad or on your own. It's important you follow your school and government health and safety guidelines.

We appreciate your participation and support in any form!

Once you have committed to participating in Connor’s Erg Challenge (no matter the extent), you're ready to start fundraising!

Participants can share the link for the event via email, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. And donations can be made via the fundraising page directly. To create a team page, at least one member needs to register as a fundraiser, and can create the team fundraising page from there.

We also have lots of awesome perks for individual and team FUNdraisers.

As Connor's Erg started off as a US FUNdraiser, taking place between top colleges, the Connor's Erg platform is defaulted to US currency.

Now it has expanded to Australian schools, gyms and workplaces the default platform currency is still USD, however when you click through to your team or individual fundraising page it'll convert to AUD.

100% of all money raised in the US supports US pediatric brain cancer research. The Foundation will work with each university to determine if we can support its own research as is done with Stanford and Wisconsin. All additional funds will go to the Pediatric Neuro Oncology Consortium (PNOC), the Collaborative Ependymoma Research Network (CERN) and the Center for Pediatric Tissue.

Funds raised in Australia will go towards high impact research, care, and development projects, including the newly announced Brain Cancer Vaccine Project at The University of Queensland.

Pediatric brain cancer is the number one cancer killer of young people in the U.S. and Australia. Current clinical treatments only help 50 per cent of children but leave 90 per cent with lifelong physical and mental impairments. Research is on the verge of exciting breakthroughs but falls short of the funding required. You can make the difference!

If you fundraise $25 US / $35 AUS or more we'll organise to send you a Connor's Erg athletic singlet! That's why we ask for your shirt size when you register.