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Rowing News
8h ago
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
Rowing News
23h ago
Big Ten Invite: Racing has already started in Sarasota for the biggest collegiate women’s race of the weekend, the Big Ten Invite, where 18 teams are facing off. Four top-20 teams, #9 Michigan, #13 Duke, #15 Rutgers, #16 Indiana, will lead the charge in this deep field while bubbles schools, like Tennessee, led by new head coach Kim Cupini, are looking to make a strong statement to the selection committee that they deserve an invite to the NCAA Championships. Racing is live streamed here and full results will be posted here.
North Carolina Rowing Championship: Boasting 445 entries and over a t ..read more
Rowing News
1d ago
The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Trials decided the remaining eight of the 14 crews that either are qualified already or hoping to qualify for this summer’s Olympic Games, as well as two Para boats for the Paralympic Games.
Single sculler Kara Kohler and the men’s and women’s pairs of Oliver Bubb and Billy Bender and Jess Thoenness and Azja Czajkowski will race in Paris by virtue of winning Olympic trials in the previously qualified boat classes.
The winning men’s and women’s quads, men’s single, men’s lightweight and open doubles, and the Para PR1 men’s single and PR2 mixed double all now go t ..read more
Rowing News
3d ago
Gary Caldwell, the commissioner of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA), will retire at the end of the year after serving the oldest rowing organization and collegiate championship in the U.S. for 26 years, the IRA announced.
In 2020, Caldwell described the role of the IRA to Rowing News:
“Because men’s rowing and [men’s and women’s] lightweight rowing are not NCAA sports, the IRA acts as the regulating body, much as the NCAA does for women’s rowing. We oversee the eligibility rules, the operating regulations, an athlete’s ability to transfer between schools. We’re a parallel organizat ..read more
Rowing News
3d ago
While the DI ranking remained relatively consistent, DII and DIII both saw some significant shakeups at the top in this week’s Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll. Embry-Riddle, on the strength of their performance at last weekend’s Knecht Cup, jumped from fifth to second in the DII poll while Wesleyan dropped from first to third in the DIII poll after losing to #1 Tufts, formerly ranked #2.
Division 1
Division 1
Rank
Team
Points
Previous Ranking
1
Stanford University
2503
1
2
University of Texas
2411
2
3
Princeton University
2263
3
4
University of California, Berkeley
2077
4
5
B ..read more
Rowing News
3d ago
The IRCA/IRA Coaches Poll – Week 2 has been released, with Harvard holding on to the top spot in the both the DI Heavyweight and Lightweight Varsity Eight polls, while Wesleyan still sits atop the DIII rankings.
IRCA/IRA Men’s Heavyweight Varsity 8 Poll
4/17/24
Rank
Team (First Place Votes)
Points
Previous
1
Harvard University (9)
297
1
2
University of California – Berkeley (3)
284
2
3
University of Washington
282
3
4
Princeton University
259
4
5
Yale University
251
5
6
Brown University
240
6
7
Syracuse University
228
7
8
Northeastern University
223
8
9
Dartmouth Co ..read more
Rowing News
3d ago
Rowing is a beautiful, elegantly simple sport: The first boat across the line wins. There are no judged points, no time-outs, and no substitutions. We race to win, with no room for debate about the result, which is decided on the water.
Off the water, coaches should leave plenty of room for debate, especially regarding non-rowing matters. A coach is a teacher, and most rowers are student-athletes. Our sport is but one part of a person’s development as a member of society, and as Madeline Davis Tully points out in her Coaching Development column on page 63, coaches should create a welcoming env ..read more
Rowing News
4d ago
WASHINGTON – Despite high winds, GW women’s rowing got on the water for multiple matches and held their own, dispatching of North Carolina and Drexel at the GW Invite.
The Buff and Blue topped the Tar Heels, who are receiving votes in the national polls, in both the Varsity 8 and 2V8 on Friday posting times of 6:15.6 and 6:38.0, respectively, to win the duals.
Saturday featured more wins and a consolidated schedule because of the high winds. GW came out on top in both races against Drexel in the weather-abbreviated event.
A full recap of the schedule is below.
V8
1. GW – 6:07.4
2. N ..read more
Rowing News
4d ago
CHERRY HILL, N.J. – The top two varsity eight boats earned gold medals and put together dominant performances for the La Salle men’s rowing team at Knecht Cup on Sunday. Each of the two crews earned victories in their semifinal races and cruised to wins in the grand finals.
The gold medals were the first in the eight categories in program history, and marked the second straight year the Explorers have medaled in the varsity 8 and second varsity 8 (bronze in 2023).
Additionally, Emily Perry competed in the women’s single competition and earned silver for the Explorers.
HOW IT HAP ..read more