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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.
News

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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College

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.
News

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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Minding a Rower’s ‘P’s’

This handy hack will improve the rowing stroke cycle and enhance the most important P of all—power.
Advice

Project Minerva: British Rowing’s Pioneering Initiative Tailors Training for Elite Female Rowers Eyeing World and Olympic Gold

British Rowing’s Project Minerva, named for the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and strategic war, was created a year ago to optimize the health and performance of elite female rowers in the UK.
News

Training for Mental Fitness

Rowers know how to tune their bodies for peak performance, but what about tuning their minds?
News

Canadian National Rowing Team Alumni Shine at 2023 Head of the Charles Regatta, Pay Tribute to Late Teammate Jon Beare

Canadian rowers spanning generations of representing the Maple Leaf enjoy a tremendous regatta reminiscing on memories while making new ones on, and off, the water.
Coaches

John Wetzstein Returns Home to Lead Saskatchewan Rowing’s High Performance Program

The current National Team coach will become the technical lead of the province’s rowing program heading into the 2024 season.
Coaches

Rowing Canada Aviron announces departure of coach Carol Love

The Montreal 1976 Olympian leaves behind a culture of trust, integrity and caring for your teammates.
News

Trot By All Means, But Don’t Be a Turkey

Fall is ideal for cross-training opportunities such as local foot races, but the ultimate goal is to be sitting in a boat at a 2K starting line next spring.
Features

The Serfs of Rowing

Assistant coaches work hard, put in long hours, and are essential to a team’s success. Yet their pay is so meager that many can’t buy a house, have children, and enjoy life fully beyond the boathouse.
Coaches

Matson Leads Tar Heel Field Hockey Squad to Victory

Erin Matson, first-year head coach of the University of North Carolina Field Hockey team, led the Tar Heels to their eleventh NCAA Championship this past Sunday, their fifth in the past six years.
News

Brennan, McLaren Make Aussie Hall of Fame

Australian rowing greats Kim (Crow) Brennan and Tim McLaren have been inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.
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To Innovate or Imitate

Innovations get the most attention, but chances are they’ve been done before.
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Know the Drill

We perform drills for a reason. They work.
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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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