The 2026 Henley Royal Regatta has once again attracted a record-breaking number of entries—862—from 21 nations, with three new women’s sculling events closing the gap on gender parity at the regatta, founded in 1839.
Simeon John and Shay Triepel are youth national champions in the men's and women's singles. Deerfield Academy and RowAmerica Rye won the men's and women's eights titles at the 2026 USRowing Youth National Championships at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla.
“It was awesome,” Tennessee head coach Kim Cupini said. "To get enough points to win the SEC championship and bring that first-ever championship home, especially here at home in Tennessee, was just incredible. So I was super impressed with the team, super proud of them.”
The Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta will be staged this year on the Cooper River in Pennsauken, Camden County, New Jersey on Friday, May 8 and Saturday May 9.
The 2026 American Collegiate Rowing Association National Championship Regatta for collegiate club programs returns to Melton Hill Lake
in Oak Ridge, Tenn. May 15-17.
The 2026 SEC Rowing Championship returns to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with a four-team field featuring
No. 1 Texas, No. 3 Tennessee, No. 13 Alabama, and No. 25 Oklahoma on Sunday, May 10.
National rankings, by creating a hierarchy of crews in each division, offer a simple, easy-to-understand way to handicap college rowing—even if they're not always accurate.
The 2026 Henley Royal Regatta has once again attracted a record-breaking number of entries—862—from 21 nations, with three new women’s sculling events closing the gap on gender parity at the regatta, founded in 1839.
At RowAmerica Rye, Serbian coaches Marko Serafimovski and Aleks Radovic are minting successful rowers by emphasizing sculling and Old World discipline.
The 2026 USRowing Youth Nationals national champion in the men's single, Simeon John, a fearless, pain-loving, high-energy kid from Boston, set a record at his first Head of the Charles, and broke it a year later by 25 seconds. His forte: Being underestimated.
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