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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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CRCA Coaches Poll: Week 2 | March 17, 2026

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

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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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Record numbers at Henley Royal Regatta Qualifying Races

Record numbers at Henley Royal Regatta Qualifying Races sees tight contests across 23 trophies
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Feature: RowAmerica Rye Dominates USRowing Youth Nationals

It was the most successful regatta ever for RowAmerica Rye, which was founded in 2013 and qualified 19 boats and 134 athletes for the championship. Thirteen crews made the A final, and 11 of those boats medaled.
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NCAA Championship: Missing Trophies and Misplaced Porta Potties

The national-championship regatta for women’s rowing made it painfully plain that it’s time the NCAA got its priorities straight.
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NCAA Feature Story: Back on Top

Texas wins its third national title in four years, edging out Stanford, as Western Washington Takes the Division II title and Tufts wins the Division III Championship.
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Death Knell for Pac-12 Rowing

The Pac-12 rowing regatta was the only major championship to feature men’s and women’s collegiate varsity programs competing at the same venue on the same day. Both recently and historically, they were the best.
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Record Number of Entries for Henley Royal Regatta in an Olympic Year

This summer’s Henley Royal Regatta sees a record number 771 Entries, eclipsing the 2022 record of 739. Entries closed on Monday, 17 June with a total of 27 nations registered overall, the highest ever in the event’s 185-year history.
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Ohio State Hires Emily Gackowski as Head Rowing Coach

Emily Gackowski has been selected as the next head coach of the Ohio State rowing program, Janine Oman, senior deputy director of athletics and senior women's administrator, announced today.
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How Brown Won Sprints

Brown’s heavyweight varsity was ranked sixth, and illness claimed their seven-seat. Nevertheless, in the Eastern Sprints final, Bruno kept coming and won by a tenth of a second—defeating two crews that had been top-ranked during the season, plus the seven-year defending champions.
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Feature Story: Washington Sweeps IRA

Huskies record historic weekend, Princeton women repeat as lightweight national champions, and Harvard lights go one-two.
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The Continuing Rise of Club Rowing: ACRA National Championship

The 2024 ACRA championship regatta featured record participation, increasing depth, keen competition, and thrilling races.
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Three-Peats and First-Time Winners at Henley Women’s Regatta 2024

The best-attended Henley Women’s Regatta in history came to an end on Sunday 24 June with fiercely contested finals that saw some clubs make it three wins in a row, and others take their first trophies.
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Team Canada’s Paris 2024 Team Unveiled

Rowing Canada Aviron, Canadian Olympic Committee, and the Canadian Paralympic Committee have announced the roster of Team Canada rowing athletes nominated to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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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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The latest issue of Rowing News is available! Check out the full April 2026 Magazine
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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.
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Letter to the Editor: Life Saver

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

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