The 2024 European Rowing Championships, and the World Rowing European Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta, are being held at the Szeged National Canoeing and Rowing Olympic Centre from 25 to 28 April. After two days of heats and repechages, European Rowing Championships medals will be awarded and places booked for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games over the coming two days in Szeged, Hungary. Finals begin on Saturday with 10 European champions set to be crowned. A further 12 finals take place on Sunday. Saturday also features semifinals in the men’s pair, single scu ..read more

Longhorn Invite: In one of the most anticipated collegiate match-ups of the regular season, the #1 Stanford women, defending NCAA National Champions, will take on #2 Texas at the Longhorn Invite, along with #12 Virginia and #14 Ohio State. The race format will name a champion at the end of racing, based on the NCAA point system. In a perhaps unprecedented move, the head coaches from all four teams conducted joint media availability on Tuesday, previewing the upcoming races and answering questions from the US and UK media. This event served to drive excitement and coverage for the race, both fr ..read more

The Dogwood Junior Regatta, taking place Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28 in Oak Ridge, TN, provides a premiere competitive opportunity for junior teams across the region and beyond as they prepare for the upcoming slate of USRowing Youth Series races, which will name not only regional champions but also qualifiers for the Youth National Championships. 1,100 athletes from more than 40 junior teams will travel from 20 states, including Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Virginia and South Florida, for the two-day regatta on Melton Hill Lake. “The 2024 edition of the Dogwood Junior Championship Regatta is ..read more

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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