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Oxford Women, Cambridge Men Win The Boat Race

In what were largely expected outcomes, the dark blue women reversed a nine-year losing streak, while the light blue men kept their cool and made it ‘four in a row’ as the Oxford women and Cambridge men won The Boat Race in front of a quarter-million spectators.
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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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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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The Ultimate Walk-On: Mike Herman

The former Navy SEAL hopes to win a spot in the men’s eight that will go for America’s first Olympic gold in the event since 2004. If he succeeds, those who helped him develop won’t be surprised.
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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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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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University of Texas Tower Lighting to Honor #1 Rowing Set for Tonight

The University of Texas Tower will be lit in Burnt Orange on Tuesday evening, May 21, in recognition of No. 1 Rowing's Big 12 Conference championship title. Per tradition, the University recognizes UT sports programs who win a conference team championship with a Burnt Orange lighting of the campus landmark.
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Four More U.S. Crews Qualify for Paris Olympics

Four U.S crews qualified for the 2024 Olympics Games through the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta earlier today, May 21.
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Race Highlights: May 17-19

In a weekend full of top notch racing, national and conference titles were on the line across collegiate rowing, including barnburners at the ACRA Championship and men's Eastern Sprints, as ten DI women's conference champions were also named. The Final Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta is still underway, awarding the final spots at the Paris Games on Tuesday, May 21.
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Photo Finishes Abound at ACRA Championship

The largest regatta for collegiate teams, the ACRA Championship, concluded on Sunday, May 19 with a flurry of thrilling races in both the men's and women's varsity eights.
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Stanford Women Win Third Straight Pac-12 Championship

No. 2 Stanford captured its third consecutive conference title Sunday, sweeping the 2024 Pac-12 Women's Rowing Championships held on Lake Natoma.
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Brown Men’s Varsity 8 Takes Gold at Eastern Sprints

Brown's Varsity 8 captured a photo-finish victory over Princeton in the Grand Final to earn the program's first Eastern Sprints and 2024 Ivy League Championship since 2012 on Sunday on Lake Quinsigamond.
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#1 Texas Rowing Sweeps Ninth Consecutive Big 12 Championship

No. 1 Texas Rowing swept six races in record-setting fashion at the Big 12 Championship to win a ninth consecutive conference crown on Sunday morning at Nathan Benderson Park.
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Michigan Impresses, Captures Ninth Big Ten Championship

The No. 9-ranked University of Michigan rowing team captured the ninth Big Ten Title in program history on Sunday (May 19) and did so in dominating fashion with five gold-medal performances in seven boat classes.
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Washington Men Earn 41st Conference Crown At Final Pac-12 Regatta

The Washington men's rowing team bid adieu to its longtime conference home Sunday, winning the program's 41st league title at the 2024 Pac-12 Men's Rowing Championships at Lake Natoma.
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#3 Princeton Women’s Rowing Captures Seventh Consecutive Ivy Title

The No. 3 Princeton Women's Rowing Team won its seventh consecutive Ivy League title, earning the Sally P. Shoemaker and the Ivy NCAA automatic bid. pr wef
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Jacksonville Women’s Rowing Sweeps MAAC Championships For Third Year Running

The Jacksonville Dolphins claimed their third consecutive women's rowing Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship victory with its third straight sweep of the conference races on Sunday afternoon.
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Rhode Island Captures 10th Atlantic 10 Rowing Championship Title

Rhode Island won it’s 10th Atlantic 10 Rowing title, securing the win with a victory in the Varsity 8 Saturday at Cooper River Park.
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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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