Para Rowing Foundation has awarded grants to Paralympians Erin Kennedy, Giedrė Rakauskaitė, Josh O’Brien, Ollie Stanhope and Ellen Buttrick allowing them to travel to and compete in the 2024 Head of the Charles Regatta on October 18-20.

Paris Olympic single sculls gold medalist Oliver Zeidler of Germany raced to a 8:10.83 finish on the 2,300-meter Berlin World Sculling Finals course Saturday morning with a 9.89 margin over Netherlands Paris Olympic bronze medalist Simon van Dorp in the event’s inaugural year.

Top Southwest referees will boycott USRowing regattas next year unless they get better pay and travel arrangements.

Sixteen of the country’s top single scullers will compete for $4,000 in prize money at the Tuxedo Park Regatta.

The heart of the fall racing season is approaching and juniors all the way up to national teams have their schedules set for the fall slate. Among the nationally recognized regattas on October 12-13 are the Head of the Housatonic, the New Hampshire Championships George Dirth Regatta and the 15th Annual Northeast Fall Championship Regatta.

Two-time Olympians and legends in the men’s single, Simon van Dorp and Oliver Zeidler will go head-to-head in a dual style race in Berlin starting at the Mühlendamm Bridge and finishing at the Reichstag building on Saturday, October 12, for the World Sculling Finalist title.

While other colleges ponder cutting Olympic sports, High Point University has embraced the future by launching a varsity women’s rowing team. Crows the athletic director: “It’s a wonderful opportunity!”

The latest issue of Rowing News is available! Check out the full November 2024 Magazine here.

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High school teams all the way up to national team squads competed at the High Point Autumn Rowing Festival presented by Bethany Medical on Sunday, October 6, in High Point, North Carolina for the opportunity to see who could turn around the regatta’s renowned inflatable ducks.

Meet the Rushers of Wisconsin—Jack, Cindy, Kay, Alie, and Nick—four of them Olympians, three of them medal winners.

The University of Washington Huskies have added Quinn Klocke and Michael Grady as assistant coaches for the men’s rowing team and Brooke Mooney and Maddie Wanamaker as assistants on the women’s team beginning with the 2024-25 season.