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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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Inaugural Joy Award to Caldwell

The Conference for Rowing Coaches will present Gary Caldwell the inaugural James C. Joy Lifetime Achievement Award,the weekend of December 5-7 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
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2025 Crew of the Year: U.S. women’s four.

“The result of the women’s four shows that we are back on track with women’s sweep,” said Josy Verdonkschot, The McLane Family Chief High Performance Officer for USRowing.
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Why Do You Love the Head of the Charles?

Is it the fall weather, friendships, and community? The excitement, enthusiasm, and sportsmanship? The babes, studs, and crashes? Or seeing great rowing up close?
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Back to Bak to Bak

At Beach Sprints worlds, Chris Bak of the U.S. became the first three-time champion in the men’s solo. Two hours later, he won silver in the mixed double sculls, missing gold by inches.
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Crash Landing

This year's Head of the Charles didn't disappoint, with great weather and the perennial drama of crews clashing.
College

2025 Coach of the Year: Yale’s Will Porter

“He’s the best, most unrecognized rowing coach in the country.” said Yale lightweight coach Andy Card, who has coached in the same boathouse as Will Porter since 1999.
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Cincinnati Juniors, Belen Jesuit Win Head of the Hooch Youth Eights

Over 2,220 boats race The Last of the Great Fall Regattas.
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Tigers Win, Virginia Impresses at Princeton 3-Mile Chase

Princeton's heavyweight men and women had the top eights, Virginia women the best depth, at the benchmark event.
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Head of the Hooch Draws Another Huge Field

The majority-youth (53 percent) rowers will race over 9,400 seats, with many rowing in multiple events.
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Coxing: Making the Most of Launch Time

As a coxswain, you want to choose your words carefully to reinforce and complement the coaching. In the launch, you can ask why certain phrases are or aren’t used.
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Sarasota Crew To Host Youth Speed Order

Six on-water practice and racing sessions offered for youth singles and pairs at Nathan Benderson Park.
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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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