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Championship Weekend: Huskies and Cavaliers and Bears–Oh My!

Championship Weekend: Huskies and Cavaliers and Bears–Oh My!

Photo and Story by Bryan Kitch
Husky Men, Cal Women Sweep Pac-12s, Virginia women on top at Sprints, Radcliffe Takes First Ivy League Championship
 
The weekend was absolutely filled with top quality racing, as nearly all the major conference ch...
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College Polls 5/16/12: California, Western Washington and Williams Top Final Regular Season USRowing/CRCA Women’s Collegiate Rowing Polls

Source: Press Release/USRowing
University of California, Western Washington University and Williams College took the No. 1 spots in the final regular season USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association polls presented by Pocock Racing Shel...

Row to London Kicks off Team Challenge to Support U.S. Team

Source: Press Release/USRowing
PRINCETON, N.J. – Rallying the rowing community behind the Olympic hopefuls training for London 2012, USRowing has launched the Row to London Team Challenge and a competitive call to action to all rowers t...

ROWONTARIO, Rowing Canada and Canadian Sport Centre Ontario invite you to the 2012 launch of Row to Podium

Source: Press Release
Row to Podium is Canada’s official talent identification and development program for rowing. We mold new athletes into future Olympic and Paralympic Champions. Row to Podium is designed specifically to f...

Gouging at the Games

By Topher Bordeau
CoSport is the name of the consumer hospitality package company appointed by the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as the only authorized ticket reseller and package provide...
Bright Ideas

Bright Ideas

By Topher Bordeau
Performance sunglasses often seem to be as much about marketing as performance: the right combination of edgy prose and sexy photography turns an otherwise unremarkable piece of eyewear into an item to covet. The problem, of ...
Gary Caldwell

Gary Caldwell

By Ed Winchester, Photography by Sportgraphics.com
Spectators at this year’s Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships probably didn’t notice anything new in Camden. And indeed, little on the surface had chan...
Sucking Down

Sucking Down

By Liz Bernal, Photography by Sportgraphics.com
Former Princeton lightweight and U.S. under-23 national team rower Christian Klein knows his way around a scale. After rowing as a heavyweight at Thomas Jefferson High School, Klein shed some po...

Experts Wanted

By Rose Giordano
Effective August 1, 2011, all Division I athletic programs are required to have a designated staff member to be knowledgeable on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) anti-doping policy. The purpose is to ...
How Not to Coach

How Not to Coach

By George Kirschbaum, Photography by Peter Spurrier
People often ask me for my thoughts on how to coach coxswains and I always try to answer them with useful and actionable information. The sad truth, however, is that coxswain education remai...
Fits and Starts

Fits and Starts

By Volker Nolte, Photography by Peter Spurrier
Carl Meyer, a member of New Zealand’s 2007 world champion men’s four, did it. Bryan Volpenhein, stroke of the U.S. Olympic gold medal eight in Athens, did it several times. So did leg...
Where Are They Now?

Where Are They Now?

By Andy Anderson, illustration by John Hooten
How many people remember The Oarsman magazine, and how each issue it featured a cartoon? As good cartoons do, they captured something about the sport that was both funny and illuminating; they he...
Duncan Free

Duncan Free

By Bryan Kitch, photography by Peter Spurrier
Duncan Free won his first Olympic medal (bronze) in the Australian men’s quad in Atlanta. He stayed put in the boat for Sydney and again in Athens, before making the switch to sweep prior to...