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    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.
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    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.

    A Wild West Story, Well Told

    Karl Drlica’s definitive history of Oregon State rowing—from struggling club to nationally successful varsity sport—is a fascinating chronicle of creativity and grit.

    Feature Stories

    Deerfield’s Winning Trifecta

    With great athletes, great coaches, and great support, the exclusive New England prep school switched to eights and became the best rowing high school in America last year.

    Resurrection

    Clear and Present Dangers

    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.

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    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).

    Anthony Delgreco Named Women’s Rowing Assistant Coach

    Holy Cross women's rowing head coach Andrea Landry announced the addition of Anthony Delgreco as an assistant coach.

    The 2023 World Rowing Championships are set to begin next week in Belgrade

    The 2023 World Rowing Championships has attracted nearly 1000 athletes from 74 delegations and will take place September 3-10 in Belgrade, Serbia.

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    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. 

    IRCA/IRA Coaches Poll – Week 2

    The IRCA/IRA Coaches Poll - Week 2 has been released, with Harvard holding on to the top spot in the both the DI Heavyweight and Lightweight Varsity Eight polls, while Wesleyan still sits atop the DIII poll.