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    Races to Watch: April 26-29

    The Longhorn Invite, Dogwood Junior Regatta, and Lake Wheeler Invite highlight a busy weekend of racing coast to coast for top collegiate and junior programs.

    Dogwood Junior Regatta Welcomes 1,100 High School Rowers to Oak Ridge This Weekend

    The Dogwood Junior Regatta, taking place Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28 in Oak Ridge, TN, provides a premiere competitive opportunity for junior teams across the region and beyond as they prepare for the upcoming slate of USRowing Youth Series races, which will name not only regional champions but also qualifiers for the Youth National Championships.

    Video: Rowing Longhorn Invite media availability

    Texas Rowing head coach Dave O'Neill was joined by Ohio State head coach Kate Sweeney, Stanford head coach Derek Byrnes and Virginia head coach Kevin Sauer to preview Saturday's regatta.

    IRCA/IRA Coaches Poll – April 24

    This week, the IRCA/IRA poll, which thus far has been ranking the varsity eights for the DI heavyweight, DIII, and lightweight men, is expanding to include the second and third varsity eights for the heavyweights and second varsity eights for DIII, along with the team points totals for all three categories.

    Feature Stories

    The Rowing News Interview: Jesse Foglia

    After the agony of Olympic selection, the head coach of the USRowing Training Center-Princeton is confident the process yielded the 12 best athletes. “We just have to make sure we don’t mess it up.”

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    Deerfield’s Winning Trifecta

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    IRA Launches First-of-its-Kind Partnership With Overnght as Exclusive Streaming Partner for All Regattas

    Charting a new course for collegiate rowing, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) and sports streaming platform Overnght unveil a groundbreaking multi-year partnership. As the exclusive streaming platform for all IRA regattas, this collaboration will significantly enhance the accessibility of collegiate rowing, allowing fans worldwide to experience live-streamed coverage of every major IRA event through the Overnght platform.

    ACRA Poll: April 23

    In the ACRA poll this week, Virginia leapfrogged Notre Dame to earn the top spot on the Men's Varsity 8+ poll after defeating them head-to-head at SIRA over the weekend, while Vanderbilt now sits atop the Women's poll after finishing first among clubs at SIRA.

    Race Highlights: April 19-21

    This weekend's racing featured shakeups in the national rankings throughout men's and women's collegiate rowing at the Big Ten Invite, Compton Cup, and Cal/UW Dual.

    #15 Lady Vols Win Five Races Saturday to Cap Dominant Weekend at Big Ten Invitational

    Wrapping up action at the Big Ten Invitational in extraordinary fashion Saturday was the 15th-ranked Tennessee rowing team, earning five wins in as many races to place an emphatic exclamation point on a stellar weekend.

    Training

    Preaching the Value of Rowing

    Amateur sports teach resilience, teamwork, independence, and leadership and create the kind of accomplished, loyal, giving alumni all colleges covet.

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    96th Stotesbury Cup Regatta Takes Place May 19-20

    The Stotebury Cup Regatta, which bills itself as “The World’s Largest High School Regatta” draws 871 crews from 185 schools to Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20.

    2023 IRA Race Schedule with Lanes

    The 2023 Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship will take place June 2-4 on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.

    USRowing Foundation Adds A New Trustee

    USRowing is pleased to announce the addition of Fran Tuite (Chicago, Ill.) as Trustee to the USRowing Foundation (USRF).

    No. 2 Texas Rowing’s Knifton named Big 12 Rower of the Year

    No. 2 Texas Rowing senior Kate Knifton was named the Big 12 Rower of the Year and head coach Dave O’Neill was selected as Big 12 Coach of the Year, the conference office announced on Wednesday.

    2023 Schuylkill Navy Series Gets Underway with the 96th Stotesbury Cup Regatta Presented by Toyota

    The Regatta – which is Philadelphia’s largest sprint race – is also the largest scholastic regatta in the world and takes place Friday, May 19 and Saturday, May 20 on the Schuylkill River.

    Pocock/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Poll Week 6: May 17, 2023

    The poll is in for NCAA Division I, II, and III women's rowing action.

    Division III women’s rowing championship selections announced

    The NCAA Division III Women’s Rowing Committee has selected the institutions that will compete in the 2023 NCAA Division III Women’s Rowing Championship.

    UW Women Earn 26th Consecutive NCAA Championships Berth

    Washington's women's rowing team will compete at the 2023 NCAA Championships May 26-28 in Pennsauken, N.J., as the NCAA announced the 22-team field for the regatta today.

    The Perfectly Connected Stroke

    How to Harness the ‘Power Rectangle.’

    Women’s Heavyweight Rowing’s Liz O’Leary Announces Retirement

    Liz O'Leary, The Friends of Radcliffe Rowing Head Coach for Women's Heavyweight Crew, has announced her retirement, effective at the conclusion of the 2023 spring campaign.

    No. 2 Texas Women’s Rowing wins eighth consecutive Big 12 Championship

    The Longhorns won the 12th Big 12 title in program history and earned an automatic berth to the NCAA Championship.

    SMU Wins Third Consecutive American Women’s Rowing Championship

    SMU won all four races at the 2023 American Athletic Conference Women’s Rowing Championship and captured the team title for the third consecutive season Sunday, May 14 on Melton Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

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    2024 Bethany Medical North Carolina Rowing Championships presented by the Lenny Peters Foundation

    The 2024 North Carolina Rowing Championships presented by the Lenny Peters Foundation was another great success!

    A Wild West Story, Well Told

    Karl Drlica’s definitive history of Oregon State rowing—from struggling club to nationally successful varsity sport—is a fascinating chronicle of creativity and grit.

    What Price Glory?

    The auctioning of an historic rowing gold medal prompts a reflection on what matters—the token or the memory?

    #4 Princeton Heavyweight Men Take Down #1 Harvard For Second Straight Compton Cup

    The No. 4 Princeton Heavyweight Rowing Team defeated the No. 1 Harvard Crimson on the Charles River, collecting its second straight Compton Cup.princet