Las Vegas, NV – Charting a new course for collegiate rowing, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) and sports streaming platform Overnght unveil a groundbreaking multi-year partnership. As the exclusive streaming platform for all IRA regattas, this collaboration will significantly enhance the accessibility of collegiate rowing, allowing fans worldwide to experience live-streamed coverage of every major IRA event through the Overnght platform. “Overnght and the Intercollegiate Rowing Association elevate sports streaming standards with a first-of-its-kind collaboration to make rowing more ..read more

In 2023, Deerfield Academy was the best rowing high school in America, with both the boys and girls varsity eights the top scholastic (non-club) finishers at the 2023 USRowing Youth National Championships (sixth and seventh, respectively, in the A final). It was the first year student-athletes at the prestigious 227-year old school raced in eights instead of fours, and while success came immediately for Deerfield—both the girls and boys crews won the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association (NEIRA) varsity-eight championships and went on to race at Henley Royal Regatta—success did not co ..read more

 2024 Bethany Medical North Carolina Rowing Championships presented by the Lenny Peters Foundation from Gene Kininmonth on Vimeo. The post 2024 Bethany Medical North Carolina Rowing Championships presented by the Lenny Peters Foundation appeared first on Rowing News ..read more

Rowing is challenging. Racing even more so. Now try doing it on the Willamette River in Corvallis, Ore. There’s a fast current, seasonal flooding, narrow bridges, floating tree trunks and other debris, darkness, rain, and cold. And it was worse before the 1960s, when dams were built. Karl Drlica, author of Bitten by the Rowing Bug: Challenges of an Untamed River, knows this intimately. For decades, his father was Oregon State University’s rowing coach, fighting the elements and fighting for funding. The latter challenge proved almost more daunting than the forces of nature. Drlica watched his ..read more

SARASOTA, Fla. – Wrapping up action at the Big Ten Invitational in extraordinary fashion Saturday was the 15th-ranked Tennessee rowing team, earning five wins in as many races to place an emphatic exclamation point on a stellar weekend. Overall, Tennessee won 14 of the 15 races in which it had a boat competing in during the two-day event at Nathan Benderson Park. Tennessee’s average margin of victory in each of its 14 wins in Sarasota was a whopping 9.031 seconds.There was at least one top-13 opponent in each of those 14 race wins. Furthermore, there were at least two top-13 opposing boat ..read more

An email brought to my attention the following notice: “1936 Berlin Olympic Gold Medal Won by ‘Boys in the Boat’ Rower John White to be Auctioned.” The sender attached the full news item and added, “My friend and I are saddened by this news.” My first response was also to feel sad. Is the almighty buck the bottom line for everything? This news sat with me for a while as I decided what I wanted to say about it. By coincidence, at about the same time I received this, the internet reposted a story from five years ago. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest basketball players of all time, had au ..read more

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – The Washington men’s rowing team earned the Schoch Cup with a win in the varsity eight and won four of five races overall Saturday at the 112th Washington-California Dual Regatta. The Huskies’ top crew handed California its first loss since the 2021 IRA National Championships, which UW won, finishing the race with a course-record time of 5:24.0. The Golden Bears had been undefeated and won the national title the last two seasons. “The level that Cal has been rowing the last few years made us evaluate what we were doing and made us get better,” said UW head coach&nbs ..read more

SARASOTA, Fla. – The fifth-ranked Brown Bears closed out the B1G Invitational in style, picking up four victories on Saturday to sweep the two-day event. All four of Brown’s crews won three races as the Bears picked up 12 victories in 12 races. “Another day of strong racing against excellent competition,” said head coach John Murphy. “This was truly a team effort as each boat faced challenges but each boat gave it their best effort. We will be back at it on Monday working on getting faster and looking forward to the races ahead.” The B4 kicked off the morning with its third win in as ..read more

CAMBRIDGE – The No. 4 Princeton Heavyweight Rowing Team defeated the No. 1 Harvard Crimson on the Charles River, collecting its second straight Compton Cup. In a closely contested race, the 1V led throughout and eventually crossed the line at 5:51.7, just in front of the home Crimson (5:53.3). It’s only the fourth time since the Compton Cup started in 1933 that Princeton has won consecutive races against Harvard (1933-36, 1956-57, 2015-16, 2023-24). 2016 was also the last time the Tigers won on Charles River. “I thought this week was a large step forward in the right direction,” said Conn ..read more

Texas repeated as champion in the three top collegiate women’s events at the 51st San Diego Crew Classic, in early April, including the Jessop-Whittier Cup Invitational, the premier event of the regatta. “I’m well aware of where we started last year and how we finished,” said Texas coach Dave O’Neil, referring to the Longhorns’ sweep of last year’s Crew Classic over a field that included Stanford and Washington and subsequent fourth-place NCAA finish, behind both, at the end of the season. “This year’s team is a lot different from last year’s team. I feel like the work that we put in this past ..read more