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Adventures of Angela Madsen
RowofLife, Big Blue TransAtlantic Row, California to Hawaii SOLO Row, Indian Ocean 8, SeaGals-Row Around Great Britain, TransPac Rowing, California Adaptive Rowing Programs, US Rowing, US Track and Field, Paralympics & Public Speaking

Veteran's Wheelchair Games Pittsburg, PA
August 1-6th, 2011
Angela competed in shot put, discus, javelin, swimming and softball (for the 1st time). She won 5 Gold Medals!

She spoke at Three Rivers Rowing Association on Friday, August 5th at 7PM to benefit the Three Rivers Adaptive Rowing Program. 16th-22nd--Angela will compete in the Track and Field in the Czech Republic. Angela is throwing the shot put, discus and javelin. SHOUT OUT TO CATHY SELLERS-BEST COACH EVER!     SEPTEMBER 2011   Veteran's Summer Sports Clinic San Diego, CA   Angela will be coaching the Rowing activities at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista with the assistance of the San Diego Rowing Club, Sept. 19-23.

Angela has worked with Mark McAndrew at Concept 2 to obtain 4 ergs (Concept 2 Model E Indoor Rowers) that she will take to events to further the sport of Indoor Adaptive Rowing. Angela is hoping to get more VA's involved in the sport. When they are not on the road, the ergs will be Angela's new erg studio at her house. Please contact her if you are interested in having the ergs visit your event or would like to visit the ergs in the erg studio. We have the Concept 2 Race software so we will be able to actually RACE the ergs.

RowofLife began when Angela Madsen, a paraplegic, from Long Beach, CA USA, and Franck Festor, a single below the knee amputee, from Metz, France, decided to ROW across the Atlantic Ocean in the Woodvale Challenge-2007 Atlantic Rowing Race. On Feb. 7, 2008, after 66 days at sea, they completed that challenge. There were 22 boats in the race (4 persons, pairs, and singles) RowofLife came in 8th in the pairs class and 10th overall.

On June 25, 2009 the Indian Ocean 8 Crew of Angela Madsen, Doug Tumminello, Helen Taylor, Bernard Fisset, Paul Cannon, Brian Flick, Simon Chalk and Ian Couch, completed their ROW across the Indian Ocean in the boat Audeamus after 58 days at sea. They set the World Record for the fastest Indian Ocean Crossing by Oar, Helen and Angela were the first women to row across the Indian Ocean. Angela became the first disabled person to row across the Indian Ocean and to row across two oceans (Indian 2009 & Atlantic 2007). The Pirate Row Crew is now in the Guinness Book of World Records.

On June 1, 2010, Angela joined a crew of 4 women to row around Great Britain. It was the Girls against the Boy (on Orca) until the Boys dropped out of the race. The SeaGals went on the win the Great Britain Row 2010 and are in the Guinness Book of World Records.

In Jan. 2011 Angela skippered a crew of 16 on the first ocean catamaran, "Big Blue," across the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco to Barbados. www.BigBlueRow.com
 

Angela is the first woman and disabled person to row the Atlantic Ocean twice, Indian Ocean and circumnavigate Great Britain.

Angela is now participating in the Javelin and Shot Put. She is hoping to make the US Track and Field Team and ultimately participate in the London Paralympics 2012. Her first attempts at the field events at the Desert Challenge Games in Mesa, AZ and the Dixie Games in Tampa, FL resulting in her breaking the Americas Records in her events. She will be traveling to the Track and Field Nationals, Miramar, FL in June 2011 and the Para Pan-American Games in Guadalajara Mexico in November 2011.

In September 2012, Angela hopes to compete in Track and Field at the Paralympics in London. She would like to at a Paralympics Field Medal to her 4 World Championship Rowing Gold Medals.
 

In Spring 2013, Angela is working on organizing a Trans-Pac Ocean Rowing Race from California to Hawaii. She is looking for crews to participate. She would like to get together some different military crews, both able and alternatively abled, to row. The row is open to crews from around the world. www.TransPacRowing.com
 

Memorial Day 2013--Angela is plans to Row Solo from Long Beach to Honolulu to bring attention to Veteran's causes.