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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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Talking Points

The location of a conversation communicates as much as the words. Rowing-specific conversations can and should occur at the boathouse.
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Jacksonville Women’s Rowing Plans First Trip to Henley

For the first time in program history, the Jacksonville University Women’s Rowing team is planning an international trip this summer, culminating with the Henley Royal Regatta.
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Winter Skill Set

When not working on your calls, you should be sharpening your technical eye. On land, you have the opportunity to look at rowers in a way you rarely get–from the side.
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Going the New Distance

At the 2028 LA Olympics, rowers will race 1,500 meters—a change that will require different equipment, training, and strategy.
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Unpaid Bills Sink Serbian Rowing

World Rowing, the international governing body of the sport, has suspended the Serbian Rowing Federation over unpaid bills.
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Preferred Protein

Sports-medicine experts from around the world divulge the latest on that muscle-building nutrient as well as body composition and ultra-processed foods.
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Ocean Sheroes Aim to Break World Record

Four women, 60 days, and 3,600 miles across the Indian Ocean.
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Boys in the Boat Rows Past Budget

The Boys in the Boat, the inspiring movie about the scrappy University of Washington crew that won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, had grossed $45 million at the box office a month after its release, putting it past its $40 million budget.
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U.S. PR3 Crews Named for Paris Paralympics

Cooperation from college coaches credited for helping USRowing field a strong PR3 squad.
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Matt Smith Delivers the Inside Scoop

How the IOC’s drive for “universality” changed rowing for better and worse.
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Olympic Winds of Change

Like it or not, change—Beach Sprints, 1,500-meter racing, no lightweights at LA2028–is coming. The future of Olympic rowing is at stake. Will World Rowing lead or follow?
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The Art of Tapering

The final week before your race is all about staying rested and getting prepared mentally. Being rested is a big component of mental toughness.
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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
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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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