The Rowing News Interview: Joel Shinofield

USRowing’s new CEO aims to tell the sport’s compelling stories and to unify members by heeding feedback, making decisions openly, and serving both elite and grassroots rowers

Head of the Lake

The Head of the Lake began in 1979 as an end-of-season competition among Lake Washington Rowing Club scullers and has become an annual tradition for Pacific Northwest crews.

Virginia Wins, Rows Fastest Princeton Chase Ever

Princeton heavyweight men finished first and third, with Penn second and fourth, Wisconsin fifth. The Tiger lightweight men were fastest, ahead of Penn and Cornell.

Penn Men, Women Win Head of the Schuylkill

The hometown Quakers ruled their home river on Saturday while RowAmerica Rye and Greenwich Crew brought their Connecticut rivalry to Philadelphia and split the high school varsity eights.

Feature Stories

Arshay Cooper: ‘He’s There to Help’

Through his A Most Beautiful Thing Inclusion Fund, Arshay Cooper has shown more than 8,000 youngsters of color that they too can participate and compete in rowing.

Preserving Glories Past

The Coastal Rowing Whisperer

Racing

World Champion Rowers Race at Lenny Peters Cup

The two-time defending world champion U.S. women's four faces reigning Olympic champs The Netherlands. Collegiate racing features Duke, High Point, Edinburgh, and Oxford universities on Oak Hollow Lake in High Point, N.C.

China Wins Big at World Rowing Beach Sprint Finals

Host nation medals in eight of 10 events, after all medal events were raced on Tuesday, as Wednesday’s schedule moved forward due to weather.

Head of the Charles Draws Rowing World to Boston

Sam Melvin and Grace Joyce and won the singles, U.S. women's and Dutch men's national teams took the eights as hundreds of thouands lined the river for America's autumn rowing festival.

USA Wins 2026 World Rowing Coastal Championships Team Trophy

USRowing topped the medals tables and captured the team trophy in Qingdao, China.

Henley Royal Regatta CEO to Step Down

Training

Training: Testing Your Body Mechanics

A Functional Movement Screen assesses your risk of injury and identifies dysfunctional or performance-limiting movement patterns.

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British Rowing Names Greg Searle Director of Performance

Four-time Olympian Greg Searle will lead British Rowing’s World Class Programme and the GB Rowing Team at British Rowing’s National Training Centre in Caversham.

USRowing Hires New CEO

Joel Shinofield comes to USRowing from USA Swimming, where he led its largest division. “We will be committed to excellence,” he vows—and better communication.

British Rowing Has A Plan

Goals attached to three pillars are designed to sustain Great Britain’s extraordinary 21st-century rowing success through 2028.

Surprise Conclusion to World Rowing Shanghai Sprints

Team Germany wins gold in the mixed eights, while the World Team the inaugural World Rowing Shanghai Sprints Overall Trophy.

Shanghai Sprints Deliver Drama

The 2026 World Rowing Shanghai Sprints delivered thrills and spills, with head-to-head 500-meter races on a course with a bend in a major city's center.

Recruiting: The Many Paths to College Rowing

Coaches build their teams in a variety of ways, pulling talent from multiple sources, not just traditional high-school programs.

2026 World Rowing Shanghai Sprints Like No Other

The inaugural World Rowing Shanghai Sprints takes place on 26-27 September 2026 in Shanghai, China, bringing together some of the biggest names in international rowing for a fast-paced weekend of head-to-head racing. Rowers compete over a 500-meter course in a knockout format, with crews racing head-to-head through successive rounds to determine the overall winners.

Head of the Cuyahoga Celebrates 30 Years

One of America's largest single-day regattas has grown to more than 2,200 athletes and 525 entries representing 53 clubs, 38 cities, 11 states, and Canada.

New High School Rowing League

A new high-school rowing league is cheduled to begin in fall 2027 in Oklahoma City thanks to a $1 million grant from the Inasmuch Foundation to the RIVERSPORT Foundation, which will administer the new Varsity Rowing League.

Olympic Oarsman Mulcahy to Be Honored at Fordham

1904 Olympic oarsman John Mulcahy will be honored along with Olympic medalist and world champion Fiona Murtagh '16 at Fordham Hall of Fame ceremony.

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Inaugural Shanghai Sprints

The World Rowing Shanghai Sprints will take place September 26–27, 2026, in Shanghai, China, and feature seven national teams and an eighth world team racing 500-meter sprints in the city center with thousands of dollars in prize money on the line.

World Rowing Masters Regatta

Bled, Slovenia hosted the largest World Rowing Masters Regatta to date.

Rowing Canada Receives Million-Dollar Gift for National Training Centre Boathouse

Former Canadian national team oarsman Don Lindsay and the Lindsay Family Foundation have made a $1 million gift toward the national training center's new boathouse.

From the Editor: The September Issue

This and recent issues of Rowing News are full of newcomers. Just as rowing, the oldest intercollegiate sport in the world, adds to its offerings and grows, so do we.