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Sanford to Retire From UConn

UConn’s founding women’s rowing coach plans to retire after the 2026 season, capping a 29-year tenure that shaped the program from its varsity inception.
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Biggest Ever Knecht Cup Regatta

Teams competing at this year’s Knecht Cup Regatta are drawn from 17 states as well as the District of Columbia.
Advice

Recruiting: Deal With the Pressure By Keeping Control

Selecting a university is an important decision. While coaches may seek a quick answer, take the time to ensure the school is the right academic, athletic, and personal fit.
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Newer Is Not Necessarily Better

While innovations in equipment can make a boat go faster, often the best way to increase speed is to improve training and use your existing equipment correctly.

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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.

Racing

College

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.
College

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.
College

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.

Training

Advice

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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Rowing Against Putin

Olympic oarsman Sean Colgan is collecting new and used equipment to help rowers in war-ravaged Ukraine. What can you contribute?
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Saudi Arabia Aims to Row on the World Stage

The oil-rich kingdom is spending billions to promote sports and tourism and hopes to host championships in indoor rowing and Beach Sprints.
News

Footloose 

Rowing with your feet out of the shoes has tremendous benefits, especially for improving fine-motor skills in sculling.
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Prague puts on an show as indoor rowing champions win again

The 2024 World Rowing Indoor Championships, presented by Concept2, came to a close on Saturday with two fantastic races in the World Rowing Versa Challenge.
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World Rowing Indoor Championships 2024 – Livestream

The World Rowing Indoor Championships 2024 in Prague, Czechia, features a hybrid competition, 15 Rowers (per race category) have the opportunity to race virtually against in-venue Rowers, in real time, for the World Championships.
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World Rowing reinstalls Serbian Rowing Federation upon settlement of financial debts

Following the announcement on 22 January of the suspension of the Serbian Rowing Federation as a member of World Rowing, the World Rowing Executive Committee has decided today to lift the suspension and reinstall the Serbian Rowing Federation as a member of World Rowing, as a result of receipt of financial debts owed.
College

Big 12 Adds Affiliates in Lacrosse, Rowing

The Big 12 Conference has added three affiliate members in women’s lacrosse and two in rowing for the 2024-25 academic year.
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Planning to Succeed

You begin by setting a goal that is both challenging and attainable—and then you plot how to get there.
College

CRCA Joins ICAC to Petition Congress to Protect Olympic Sports

The ICAC made a formal submission yesterday to Congress’ Commission on the State of U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Sports advocating for the protection and support of Olympics sports at the collegiate level.
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A Winning Agenda

Want to get recruited? Make your current team better.
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A Rower Hits a Hole in One

Playing Through, a movie by Curtis Jordan, celebrates Ann Gregory, the first great African-American female golfer. Check it out on Amazon Prime.
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At the Speed Order: Deep Talent, Competitive Finals

High-performance chief Verdonkschot pleased by “decent speeds” and “better small-boat skills.”
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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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CURRENT ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE

The latest issue of Rowing News is available! Check out the full April 2026 Magazine
College

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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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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