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.

Texas Wins San Diego Crew Classic

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.

Washington Men, UCF Women Win Benderson Cups at Sarasota 2K

Both UCF and Washington defended their Benderson Cups as 34 top collegiate rowing programs raced at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla.

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

Sarasota 2K Featuring Benderson Cups This Weekend

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.

It’s Either Cal or UW men, Stanford or Texas women

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.

Stanford Remains #1 in Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll

The Division I poll featured shuffling in the lower half of the top 25 as crews start to race.

CRCA Coaches Poll: Week 2 | March 17, 2026

Defending NCAA Division I national champions Stanford remain atop the Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll.

Training

Training for that Pinnacle Regatta

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.

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Ellen Minzner and Tom Siddall Awarded Order of Ikkos

Ellen Minzner and Tom Siddall, along with Rebecca Newman and Bob Arsenault, were awarded the Order of Ikkos from the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.

Fall: Rebuilding Season

Fall offers 10 weeks of water time to help athletes build fitness, row better, learn to compete, have fun, and prepare for spring racing.

Sports Medicine Hot Topics for Rowers

At their annual meeting, sports-medicine experts from around the world discussed the latest research, including why BORG drinking can lead to victory—if done by the other crew.

PR3 Mixed Four Wins Silver at 2024 Paralympic Games

The U.S. PR3 mixed four with coxswain brought home a silver medal Sunday from the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024.

PR3 Mixed Double Advances to B Final at Paralympic Games

The U.S. PR3 mixed double sculls finished third in its repechage Saturday morning and will now race in the rowing B final at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024.

PR3 Mixed Four Wins Heat, Advances to Final at Paralympic Games

The U.S. PR3 mixed four with coxswain easily won its heat Friday afternoon to advance to the final at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024. The PR3 mixed double sculls crew finished fourth and will compete in tomorrow’s repechage.

2024 Paralympic Games: Boat-By-Boat Preview

The U.S. will have two boats competing in rowing at the Paralympic Games Paris 2024 including the PR3 mixed double sculls and PR3 mixed four with coxswain. All seven athletes who will be competing in Paris are first-time Paralympians and are all coming off silver-medal performances at the 2023 World Rowing Championships.

Coxswain Development: The Art of Making a Pass

Every opportunity to pass should be fun, so let that shine through in your coxing.

Sport Science: Fin Tuning

Smaller skegs or fins don’t always make a rowing boat faster.

Finals Conclude at the 2024 World Rowing Championships

The curtain came down on an incredible combined World Rowing Senior, Under 23 and Under 19 Championships today as the finals took place for the fourteen Under 19 boat classes.

History Made at the 2024 World Rowing Senior, U23, and U19 Championships

The penultimate day of racing at the 2024 World Rowing Senior, Under 23 and Under 19 Championships on Martindale Pond saw the finals of the senior boat classes. Across the six boat classes, 11 nations picked up medals with all six titles going to different nations.

Fast Finishes and World Best Times for U23 Finals at Worlds

With the first eight titles having been awarded on Thursday, the remaining thirteen World U23 Championship titles were awarded on Friday August 23 after a series of incredible finals on Martindale Pond where multiple World Championship Best Times were broken.

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Crew Angels

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.

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From The Editor: Don’t Believe What You Hear

You can’t just teach yourself to row on an erg and then go to the Olympics? Michael Herman is well on his way to doing so.

Letter to the Editor: Life Saver

Bob Woods of Oklahoma City shares the remarkable story of rowing saving a life -- someone else's!