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.

The Five Biggest Myths In Rowing

  Myth No. 1: "It’s such an expensive sport." It's not. Sure, you can spend $100,000 buying and outfitting a new eight, especially if you add a Peach system and other options. But you can pick up a good used shell that's the right size for the...

Oxford Women, Cambridge Men Win The Boat Race

In what were largely expected outcomes, the dark blue women reversed a nine-year losing streak, while the light blue men kept their cool and made it ‘four in a row’ as the Oxford women and Cambridge men won The Boat Race in front of a quarter-million spectators.

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.

Feature Stories

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

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.

Stanford Remains #1 in Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll

The Cardinal swept #5 Tennessee over the weekend while #2 Texas won four events at the San Diego Crew Classic.

The Ultimate Walk-On: Mike Herman

The former Navy SEAL hopes to win a spot in the men’s eight that will go for America’s first Olympic gold in the event since 2004. If he succeeds, those who helped him develop won’t be surprised.

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.

Training

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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Getting Ahead at the Head Races

This tried-and-true advice will enhance the fun, heighten the thrill, and perhaps win a medal or two.

Hands Across the Water

It’s a mystery why proper hand position isn’t taught regularly. Is it because it’s considered unimportant or not recognized readily?

A Call to Preserve Rowing’s History

Rowing history aficionados are renewing calls for the preservation of the history of the sport through a new initiative asking clubs and individuals to think twice before discarding rowing archives and historical objects.

Bryan Elected VP at Undine

She becomes the first female officer at the storied Boathouse Row club.

Invoking Rowing’s Sublime Voices

Part how-to guide, tribute to our sport’s deep roots, and chronicle of a self-professed “rowing tragic,” Tight Puddles weaves it all together with a single aim: to make us faster on the water.

Rogers Family Commits $10 Million To Men’s Rowing

Commitment includes $5 million matching challenge.

Cancer Takes Olympic Oarswoman Nancy Storrs

Olympic oarswoman Nancy Storrs, 73, died of cancer in early September.

From the Editor: Change Has to Come

It could begin with racing beyond Europe.

Qualified Success

USRowing qualified 10 boats for Paris—eight for the Olympics and two for the Paralympics—and won seven medals but fell far short of the performance level of prior Olympic cycles. Said coach Josy Verdonkschot: “We have to improve.”

Titles retained and new World Champions crowned on last day of the 2023 World Rowing Championships

The final day of the 2023 World Rowing Championships delivered one of the most exciting days of racing yet, with fiercely contested races from the D-finals right through to the men’s eight which concluded the week. 

Race Report: Great Britain and Netherlands Dominant on Day 7

Great Britain and the Netherlands won the bulk of the gold medals on offer on day 7 of the World Rowing Championships, with outstanding racing across A and B finals.

More Paris places secured and first medals awarded at the 2023 World Rowing Championships

The first medals were handed out at the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade on Friday, after more crews qualified their boats for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games on a blustery Lake Sava.

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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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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.

Letter to the Editor: Life Saver

Bob Woods of Oklahoma City shares the remarkable story of rowing saving a life -- someone else's!