Team USA Defeats World All Stars at Lenny Peters Cup

Created as a Ryder Cup-style contest to boost interest, this year's Lenny Peters Cup at the Bethany Medical North Carolina State Rowing Championships featured Olympians on both squads.

Lenny Peters Cup & North Carolina Rowing Championships

Olympians Jacob Plihal, Grace Joyce, and Sophia Vitas are joined by national teamers Sam Melvin, Isa Darvin, Cedar Cunningham, Evan Park, and Caleb Nollenberger for Team USA, racing an all-star world team in Ryder Cup-style competition in North Carolina.

A Time to Rig and a Time to De-Rig

You don’t need to know every skill but you should know all the parts of a boat so you can describe equipment problems accurately to facilitate solutions.

Trinity Men, Radcliffe Lightweights Win Knecht Cup

Over 76 college programs packed Camden County's Cooper River racecourse for two days of six-lane racing.

Positive Reflection

Feature Stories

Temple Rowing: From the Schuylkill to the Thames

A Philly underdog saga about the Cunningham brothers, especially Brendan, head coach at Temple, which went from rowing out of tents to winning Dad Vail and a trip to Henley.

Racing

Biggest Ever Knecht Cup Regatta

Teams competing at this year’s Knecht Cup Regatta are drawn from 17 states as well as the District of Columbia.

Oxford Women, Cambridge Men Win The Boat Race

In what were largely expected outcomes, the dark blue women reversed a nine-year losing streak, while the light blue men kept their cool and made it ‘four in a row’ as the Oxford women and Cambridge men won The Boat Race in front of a quarter-million spectators.

Cambridge Men, Oxford Women Favorites For The Boat Race

Cambridge won both Boat Races in 2025 for the third year in a row. This year, Oxford aims to turn the tide on the Light Blues.

Teams Announced for Lenny Peters Cup

The eight-member World Team and Team USA feature multiple Olympic champions and national team athletes competing in a Ryder Cup-style format in High Point, North Carolina. The regatta also includes collegiate, high school, and masters racing in a festival setting Saturday, April 18.

Training

Recruiting: Deal With the Pressure By Keeping Control

Selecting a university is an important decision. While coaches may seek a quick answer, take the time to ensure the school is the right academic, athletic, and personal fit.

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Youth Rowing Regional Championship Season Starts May 2-4 Weekend

The May 2-4 weekend marks the beginning of youth rowing regional champion season, with qualifying spots at the 2025 USRowing Youth Nationals at Nathan Benderson Park June 10-15 in Sarasota, Fla. on the line.

Stanford, Humboldt, Bates, and Princeton Top Pocock CRCA Week 7 Poll

  Division 1 Pts last week 1 Stanford University 2989 2 2 University of Texas at Austin 2743 1 3 University of Washington 2712 3 4 University...

When a masters rower had a heart attack at Nathan Benderson Park, everything was in place to save his life.

Darrel Davidson is lucky his heart stopped at the finish of a race at the Sarasota Invitational Regatta at Nathan Benderson Park – if it had to happen anywhere. His survival was largely due to the park’s staff and its efforts to keep the venue safe for the tens of thousands of athletes who participate in events there yearly.

From The Editor: May, 2025

Little in life will be defined so clearly as the results of a rowing regatta.

Weekend Racing Produces Clear Favorites for NCAA and IRA National Championships

Stanford NCAA women, Washington heavyweight men, Princeton lightweight women, and Harvard lightweight women win big in rowing races to become clear favorites for national championships.

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Big Ten Invitational

The Big Ten Invitational results will play a major role in determining which programs receive bids for the NCAA Championships.

Cambridge Wins Boat Races

The Light Blue crews won the world's original intercollegiate athletic contest—rowing's Boat Race, contested by Oxford and Cambridge universities since 1829.

Knecht Cup welcomes college crews to Cooper River racecourse

The 2025 Knecht Cup Regatta also features the inaugural race of NCAA Division I's newest program, the UAlbany Great Danes.

Dad Vail Regatta Adds Sculling Championships

The Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta will hold the National Open Intercollegiate Sculling Championships within the 2025 regatta.

CRCA Pocock Poll for April 8, 2025

Texas (D I), Humboldt (D II), Tufts (D III), and Princeton (Ltw) Top Week 4 Rankings.

NACRO Challenges USRowing’s Control of Regattas

The National Association of Collegiate Rowing Officials, an alternative source of trained referees, made its debut at the Sarasota 2K regatta.

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Sanford to Retire From UConn

UConn’s founding women’s rowing coach plans to retire after the 2026 season, capping a 29-year tenure that shaped the program from its varsity inception.

Newer Is Not Necessarily Better

While innovations in equipment can make a boat go faster, often the best way to increase speed is to improve training and use your existing equipment correctly.

The Five Biggest Myths In Rowing

  Myth No. 1: "It’s such an expensive sport." It's not. Sure, you can spend $100,000 buying...

Stanford Remains #1 in Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll

The Cardinal swept #5 Tennessee over the weekend while #2 Texas won four events at the San Diego Crew Classic.