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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Coxswain Development: Getting Back Into It

There’s no magical call that will close the gap when you’re down by a length as a coxswain, but here are three tactics that will help you catch up and pull ahead.

World Rowing Records: When the Stars Align

World rowing records astonish us by stretching our conception of human potential. But in rowing, they are freak occurrences that happen only when there’s a confluence of favorable conditions.

The Etiquette of Selection Camp

Yes, it can be rough, so have someone to talk to outside of selection camp—a “rowing therapist” willing to listen and support. And beware of cliques!

Better Rowing Through Food Science

Sports dietitians, food science experts, and other exercise pros share the latest about carbs, caffeine, placebos, collagen, and “cycle-syncing” for rowers.

Schooled in Sculling

Skills developed through small-boat sculling, experimentation, and play are transferable to a sweep boat.

Spracklen Named Duke Rowing Head Coach

Duke University Vice President and Director of Athletics Nina King announced Friday the hiring of Adrian Spracklen as the head coach of the rowing program.

LA2028 Confirms Olympic Rowing Will Be Only 1500m

The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games officially announced that the 2028 rowing events will take place at Marine Stadium in Long Beach, CA. This course, the same one that was used in the 1932 Olympic Games, is only 1,500m long.

U.S. Women Victorious at FISU World University Championships

The U.S. Women's 8+ claimed gold at the FISU World University Championships in Rotterdam on July 6th, the international championship for university students.

Olympic Preview Series: Million-Dollar Gift Boosts Momentum Heading Into Paris

Hopes are high for the U.S. rowing squad to break a five-year winless streak and return with at least four medals—one of them gold.

Olympic Preview Series: Jacob Plihal Represents

Whatever place single sculler Jacob Plihal finishes in the Paris Olympics, he'll have had a successful Games for the USA. That's because USRowing hasn't qualified a male sculler in any Olympic event—single, double, or quad—since 2016 or a men's single since Ken Jerkowski in 2012 and 2008.

Coach Development: Making Your Next Move

If you’re tempted to jump on the coaching carousel this summer, keep in mind these factors as you mull what’s right for you.

Master Craftsman Bob Beeman Retires from Concept2

After 42 years of making and servicing oars and sculls, Bob Beeman is retiring, Concept2 announced. 

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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!