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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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Races to Watch – April 13-14

This weekend of racing is highlighted by the Ivy Invite, Cincinnati High School Invitational, Dreissigacker Cup, Platt Cup, and World Cup I.
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Eastern Michigan to Debut National Caliber Eight-Lane Racecourse on Ford Lake

Eastern Michigan University will next week debut their new, permanent, submergible eight-lane racecourse on Ford Lake in Ypsilanti. EMU has high hopes that the Rowing Course at Ford Lake will one day soon host championship regattas such as NCAAs, as well as collegiate conference championships and USRowing championships.
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IRCA/IRA Coaches Poll – Week 1

Harvard tops the IRCA/IRA Coaches Poll - Week 1 in the Men's Heavyweight and Lightweight V8's. Wesleyan, formerly tied for second, now sits atop the DIII V8 poll.
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Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll – Week 4

The Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association has released the Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll for women's rowing in Divisions I, II, and III.
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Park Breaks Team 2k Record Ahead of Oregon State’s Spring Season

Evan Park, a senior on the Oregon State University Women's Rowing team, set the team 2k record at OSU's annual C.R.A.S.H. Beavs indoor erg event earlier this season, pulling an impressive 6:37, The Daily Barometer reports.
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Cal Men’s Rowing Sweeps San Diego Crew Classic, Pac-12 Challenge

he No. 1 California Golden Bears men's rowing team picked up right where it left off yesterday and remained undefeated over the weekend sweeping all races at the San Diego Crew Classic in Mission Bay and the Pac-12 Challenge in Redwood Shores Sunday morning.
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‘It’s a Rower Thing’

It isn’t unusual for deep, lasting friendships to form in shells on and off the water. Most of the time these happen between rowers, but sometimes they happen between competitors.
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How Cambridge Came to Dominate the Boat Race – A Photo Essay

The Guardian has an inside look at Cambridge University's preparations in the lead up to the 2024 Boat Race.
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Canadian Rowing Team Announced

Rowing Canada Aviron (RCA) announces 4 crews and 22 rowers to represent Canada at upcoming international rowing events.
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Race Highlights: April 6-7

Highlights from this past weekend of racing from coast to coast.
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Five Rowers Selected to Olympic Team at 2024 U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Rowing

Five rowers earned their spots at 2024 Olympic Games, while 16 others kept their Paris hopes alive as racing concluded on Sunday at the 2024 U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials – Rowing at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla.
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2024 San Diego Crew Classic Updates: Sunday, April 7

Sunday racing opened with masters eight competition with the composite team Endeavor taking most races.
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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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