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The Coastal Rowing Whisperer

Upbeat Marc Oria is a guru-like figure in Beach Sprints, which will debut at the LA Olympics, where world champion Chris Bak of the U.S. is favored to medal.
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Cedar Cunningham: Tall Order

At 6-foot-8, Cedar Cunningham lives up to his name. But is this fiercely competitive kid from Washington State’s club program destined to row in the LA Olympics?

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Matt Smith Delivers the Inside Scoop

How the IOC’s drive for “universality” changed rowing for better and worse.
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Olympic Winds of Change

Like it or not, change—Beach Sprints, 1,500-meter racing, no lightweights at LA2028–is coming. The future of Olympic rowing is at stake. Will World Rowing lead or follow?
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Excellence

Through its Pathways program, USRowing is striving to renew the U.S. tradition of international and Olympic success by improving the ways promising rowers are identified, trained, and selected.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 1

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 2

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 3

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 4

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 5

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 6

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 7

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 8

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 9

To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.
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