More

    IRA Launches First-of-its-Kind Partnership With Overnght as Exclusive Streaming Partner for All Regattas

    Charting a new course for collegiate rowing, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) and sports streaming platform Overnght unveil a groundbreaking multi-year partnership. As the exclusive streaming platform for all IRA regattas, this collaboration will significantly enhance the accessibility of collegiate rowing, allowing fans worldwide to experience live-streamed coverage of every major IRA event through the Overnght platform.

    ACRA Poll: April 23

    In the ACRA poll this week, Virginia leapfrogged Notre Dame to earn the top spot on the Men's Varsity 8+ poll after defeating them head-to-head at SIRA over the weekend, while Vanderbilt now sits atop the Women's poll after finishing first among clubs at SIRA.

    2024 Bethany Medical North Carolina Rowing Championships presented by the Lenny Peters Foundation

    The 2024 North Carolina Rowing Championships presented by the Lenny Peters Foundation was another great success!

    Race Highlights: April 19-21

    This weekend's racing featured shakeups in the national rankings throughout men's and women's collegiate rowing at the Big Ten Invite, Compton Cup, and Cal/UW Dual.

    Feature Stories

    Ray of Sunshine

    You’re exactly right,” said Tim Allen, executive associate athletics director at the University of Central Florida, in response to my question: Was UCF’s hiring of Mara Allen (no relation to Tim) a case of a big-time athletic department looking at NCAA women’s rowing, and its...

    Deerfield’s Winning Trifecta

    Resurrection

    Racing

    Husky Men Win Schoch Cup At 112th UW-Cal Dual

    The Washington men's rowing team earned the Schoch Cup with a win in the varsity eight and won four of five races overall Saturday at the 112th Washington-California Dual Regatta.

    #5 Brown Women’s Rowing Caps Weekend Sweep of Big Ten Invite

    The fifth-ranked Brown Bears closed out the B1G Invitational in style, picking up four victories on Saturday to sweep the two-day event. All four of Brown's crews won three races as the Bears picked up 12 victories in 12 races.bre

    #4 Princeton Heavyweight Men Take Down #1 Harvard For Second Straight Compton Cup

    The No. 4 Princeton Heavyweight Rowing Team defeated the No. 1 Harvard Crimson on the Charles River, collecting its second straight Compton Cup.princet

    UCLA Men, Texas Women Victorious at Crew Classic

    This year’s difference: trust, camaraderie, and “embracing the suck.”

    Training

    Preaching the Value of Rowing

    Amateur sports teach resilience, teamwork, independence, and leadership and create the kind of accomplished, loyal, giving alumni all colleges covet.

    Videos

    Find more videos on YouTube @RowingNews1994

    All articles

    Olympic Rotation

    Five women representing two rowing generations are vying for two coveted seats in the lightweight double that will compete for a medal at the Paris Games.

    World Championship Titles and Paris 2024 Qualification Spots on the Line at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade

    Over 950 rowers from around the world have descended on Belgrade, Serbia this week for the2023 World Rowing Championships which will kick off tomorrow, 3 September 2023.

    Men’s Lightweight Rowing’s Accomando Elevated to Associate Head Coach

    Harvard Men's Heavyweight Rowing's announced today, Ian Accomando has been elevated from assistant coach to associate head coach.  Accomando earns the title as he enters his twelfth season with the Crimson. 

    An Immodest Proposal

    At the collegiate level, there are spring championships for only half our sport—sweep rowing. Sculling championships in the fall could realize the potential of our whole sport. It works for running—track and field in the spring, cross-country in the fall. Why not us?

    ‘Everybody Gets a Ring’

    The slogan was heard often during this championship season to convey the essence of Stanford women’s rowing: Every person on the team is important—a principle evident in how they practice, interact, and compete.

    Changing Seasons, and Gears

    Be careful lest achieving fall speed comes at the expense of spring success.

    Rippetoe Completes Coaching Staff

    Michigan State rowing coach Stacey Rippetoe has announced the hires of Nicole Marek and McKenzie Vaughn, along with the retention of Kayla Brock and Veronica Platzer, to complete her coaching staff.  Brock and Platzer will begin their second seasons at MSU, and Marek returns to the Green and White after a standout four seasons as a rower. 

    Devorak named head coach of the Marietta Women’s Rowing program

    After spending last season as the assistant coach for the Marietta College women's rowing team, Annie Devorak now begins her first year the Pioneers' head coach in 2023-24.

    Moved by the Oar 

    The coach is a mediator whose essential task is to create favorable conditions for the beginning rower to find optimal solutions to the movement task.

    World Rowing In Search of Revenue and Growth

    Partnership with data and sponsorship vendor seen as vital to future.

    Masters Rowers Smith and Watson Continue Streak

    Rowing for MastersCoaching, Barbara Smith, 90, and Jeannie Watson, 79, continued their winning ways at this summer’s USRowing Masters National Championships on Eagle Creek in Indianapolis, Ind., winning the J age category in 6:26.02.

    Sauer Adds Dare Shoop and Baynham-Williams to Coaching Staff

    Lindsay Dare Shoop and Morgan Baynham-Williams have been named assistant rowing coaches at the University of Virginia, head coach Kevin Sauer announced Wednesday (Aug. 23).

    Latest articles

    What Price Glory?

    The auctioning of an historic rowing gold medal prompts a reflection on what matters—the token or the memory?

    Final Ten Crews Emerge at U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials

    In slow conditions, crews raced to high percentages of “Competitive Standard Time”—a promising sign for Olympic qualification, if not medals.

    Caldwell to Retire From IRA

    The longtime commissioner oversaw the oldest rowing organization and collegiate championship in the U.S. for 26 years.

    Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll – Week 5

    While the DI ranking remained relatively consistent, DII and DIII both saw some significant shakeups at the top in this week's Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll. Embry-Riddle, on the strength of their performance at last weekend's Knecht Cup, jumped from fifth to second in the DII poll while Wesleyan dropped from first to third in the DIII poll after losing to #1 Tufts, formerly ranked #2.