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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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