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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.
College

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.
College

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.
College

CRCA Coaches Poll: Week 2 | March 17, 2026

Defending NCAA Division I national champions Stanford remain atop the Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll.

Training

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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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Maximizing the Middle

It’s easy to lose focus mid-race, so building in structure will keep your head in the boat and help your crew maintain the best speed.
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Don’t Be Such a Stiff

Strength coach Will Ruth has developed a dynamic targeted routine to get your rowing muscles stimulated and joints moving.
Coaches

Rowing Adds Noah Axford and Maggie DeVlieger as Assistant Coaches

Both coaches will assist heavyweight, lightweight, and women’s crews.
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Water Shed: The Why and How of Hydration

During exercise, someone of normal size and weight typically sweats about a liter per hour, but you can excrete as many as three liters of water while rowing on a hot day.
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Drexel Announces Karsen Healy as Assistant Women’s Rowing Coach

Drexel has announced the hiring of Karsen Healy as an assistant coach for the Drexel women's rowing team.
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The 10 Secrets of Coaching Success

Experience yields these tried and true practices.
College

NCAA Votes to Eliminate DII Women’s Rowing National Championship

The 2027 NCAA National Championship will likely be the last to crown a Division II women’s champion.
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February 2024 Magazine

The February 2024 issue is here! Subscribe now to access both the print and digital editions of the issue. Don't miss the the "Olympic Winds of Change" written by Rowing News Publisher Chip Davis!
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Excellence

Through its Pathways program, USRowing is striving to renew the U.S. tradition of international and Olympic success by improving the ways promising rowers are identified, trained, and selected.
Drills

The Origins of the Micro-pause

Where did that quick movement into the catch come from? Blame the Speed Boss.
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Do Small Adjustments Make a Big Difference?

Modern equipment makes it possible to rig boats and oars to optimize performance. Coaches know generally how to solve such challenges but often struggle with specifics.
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Starting Power

Trying to maintain constant speed during a race may be easy on the body but hard on performance.
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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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