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    Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 1

    To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.

    Rowing News – Top 25 of 2023: Number 2

    To determine college rowing’s overall program ranking, we took the official results of the separate national championships for each school and used a weighted formula—with new adjustments this year—to arrive at this year’s top 25.

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    Hammers, silk merchants, and lily dippers. Inside rowing’s secret language.

    The Case for Single Sculling

    Symmetry, small-boat skills, and the sense of freedom that comes with rowing whenever you feel like it. For these reasons and more, there’s never been a better time to invest in a single—and in your own development as an athlete.

    Training Through the Ages

    How training for top performance evolves over a lifetime.

    Equipment Maintenance 101

    With winning margins growing increasingly slim, it’s never been more important to keep your equipment fine-tuned for race day. Here some of rowing’s leading manufacturers share their secrets for keeping boat and oars—and everything in between—built for speed.

    So You Want to Row in College

    The decision to row is one thing. Where to row is another.

    Head of the Schuylkill Reignites Philly Rowing

    After getting battered by flooding and the pandemic pause, the regatta brought thousands to the bank of the Schuylkill for head racing magic.

    How to Overcome the Dreaded Erg Test

    Erg tests are an unavoidable part of rowing, but there’s no reason they have to be so terrifying. From 2K to 6K to the ‘hour of power,’ rowing’s erg stars share the test-prep strategies that put them on the path to personal bests.

    Movement Medicine

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    Introducing the U.S. Women’s Training Center Olympic Team

    Meet the Princeton Training Center Women's Olympic squad.

    Full Olympic Team Nearly Set

    The official lineups for team boats competing for USRowing at the 2021 Olympic Games have been announced.

    Finally – The Olympic Qualification Regatta Begins

    The Final Olympic Qualification Regatta will begin Saturday in Lucerne, Switzerland.

    U.S. Men’s Quad Fourth at World Cup I

    The U.S. men's quad finished fourth at World Cup I in a tuneup race for the upcoming Olympic Qualifier.

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