How training for top performance evolves over a lifetime.

When three coaches and 17 rowers left SMU for Tennessee last summer, it wasn’t the beginning of a transfer-portal apocalypse. It was the predictable result of a top athletic program devoting major resources to women’s rowing.

They have the most thankless job in our sport. Usually unpaid, often unappreciated, still unrated and unranked, referees are graying, and some regattas can’t find enough.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.