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.
The Longhorns opened their spring season with demonstrative wins, while West Coast junior crews marked their mid-season progress against strong competition at the iconic event on Mission Bay.
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.
The regatta brings together 19 NCAA Division I women’s programs, six top-tier IRA men’s squads, and Florida’s standout rowing schools for 2,000-meter racing to claim the team point based Benderson Cups.
Cal vs. Washington, Texas vs. Stanford—rivalries between the best and fastest men’s and women’s crews ever, each coached by men who traveled similar paths to the top—will likely produce this year's IRA and NCAA national champions.
The ultimate race is the benchmark toward which the team must work, and coaches can calculate accurately the kind of performance required, on and off the water, to achieve it.
University of Pennsylvania won nine of ten events entered, New Zealand's Finn won a single and two doubles events as over 8,000 race at the 2024 Head of the Schuylkill.
The Head of the American, Pumpkinhead - Head of the Colorado, and Blake Haxton Fall Regatta are all scheduled for Saturday, October 26. Racers from the middle school all the way up to masters will be competing.
Known as ‘America’s favorite regatta’ by Philadelphia natives, the 54th Head of the Schuylkill is set to run from Saturday and Sunday, October 26-27, 2024.
A reader joins Doctor Rowing in mourning the elimination of lightweight events in future Olympic competitions, but takes umbrage at his remarks in that same piece about Beach Sprints.
The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Board of Stewards has appointed Laura Kunkemueller as the organization’s next commissioner. She steps into the role previously held by Gary Caldwell, who retired on October 11, 2024.
As coaches, it’s our responsibility to get those around our teams on board with what we’re doing. Assume that others are coming into the situation with the best of intentions—until proven otherwise—and you stand a much better chance of building a lasting, beneficial partnership.
Nathan Benderson Park, in Sarasota, Florida, has partnered with USRowing to host a series of rowing events in the spring of 2025 starting with the Youth National Championships June 12-15. Amidst the excitement, however, Nathan Benderson Park’s hard-working staff is focused on making necessary repairs to the site after Hurricane Milton.
The U.S. men’s four that won gold at the Paris Olympics, consisting of Nicholas Mead, Justin Best, Michael Grady, Liam Corrigan, has been named a finalist for World Rowing Crew of the Year.
The 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta has come to a close, with Michelle Sechser defending her championship single title and Kiwi Finn Hamill taking the crown in the men's event while collegiate and international crews faced off in the championship eights.
At the Orlando Area Rowing Society, Inc.’s OARS Youth Invitation, the Crew Angels Launch Boat Team, led by Steve D’Amico, 25-year veteran of the United States Air Force, parades the U.S., Florida, and other flags down the Turkey Lake course at Bill Frederick Park in Orlando, Fla.