USRowing named Jesse Foglia head coach of the USRowing Training Center-Princeton at the end of 2022 after multiple stints as a National Team coach on the U19 and U23 levels. He’s responsible for the U.S. women’s Olympic eight and straight four that will race in Europe at a World Rowing Cup before the Paris Olympic regatta, July 27 to Aug. 4. Foglia has coached at Fox Chapel High School, Three Rivers Rowing Association, Bates College, Harvard University, and the U.S. U19 and U23 National Teams. Rowing News sat down with him at the end of Olympic selection camp in Sarasota, Fla., just as the 12 ..read more

This week, the IRCA/IRA poll, which thus far has been ranking the varsity eights for the DI heavyweight, DIII, and lightweight men, is expanding to include the second and third varsity eights for the heavyweights and second varsity eights for DIII, along with the team points totals for all three categories. This week sees a new #1 ranking for the heavyweights as Princeton, who defeated then-top-ranked Harvard last weekend, sits atop the varsity eight poll. Washington, however, is the top ranked team in the IRA Ten Eyck Team Points poll on the strength of their #1-ranked second and third varsit ..read more

While the top four positions in the DI poll have remained consistent, the Tennessee women saw a staggering 10-position jump to move from 15th to fifth on this week’s Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll based on the strength of their performance at the Big Ten Invitational. The DII and DIII polls saw similar consistency as crews move through the heart of their seasons. Racing continues to heat up this weekend across collegiate women’s rowing and some shakeups are sure to be seen in the coming weeks. Division 1 Rank Team Points Previous Ranking 1 Stanford University 2605 1 2 University of Texas 252 ..read more

The 2024 European Rowing Championships and 2024 World Rowing European Olympic & Paralympic Qualification Regatta are taking place in Szeged, Hungary from 25 to 28 April 2024. The European Rowing Championships have attracted over 470 athletes from 30 nations, who will compete over four days of racing. The first races for the EOPQR will start on 25 April at 9:00 CET. The first races for the ERCH will start on 25 April at 10:05 CET; the medal races start on Saturday, 27 April at 13:05 CET. Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the events: WHAT ARE THE EUROPEAN ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS? The ..read more

You’re exactly right,” said Tim Allen, executive associate athletics director at the University of Central Florida, in response to my question: Was UCF’s hiring of Mara Allen (no relation to Tim) a case of a big-time athletic department looking at NCAA women’s rowing, and its 20 scholarships, and figuring that if the university hired one of the great coaches working as an underpaid assistant, UCF could be competing at the NCAA championships in short order? Little wonder UCF pursued Mara; her rowing resume is platinum. She has won championships and led crews since her days as a junior oarswoman ..read more

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