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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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    Scholastic and Collegiate Rowing Regattas Return to Philadelphia

    The City of Philadelphia has issued permits that will allow the return of scholastic and collegiate regattas to be run on the Schuylkill River.

    Machine Learning

    How the boom in indoor rowing is bringing the benefits of America’s oldest intercollegiate sport to the masses.

    U.S. Women’s National Team Fall Training

    Fall racing may be on hold but the U.S. women's national team is still training. Have a look at this morning's practice on Mercer Lake.

    Wayland-Weston Celebrates Twenty Years as a Combined School Program

    Wayland-Weston celebrates their 20th anniversary this year as a combined high school program.

    The Upstart

    Third-generation Olympian Oliver Zeidler has taken the men’s single field by storm and done so faster than anyone anticipated—even with the sky-high expectations for the elite swimmer turned sculler.

    Game Changer

    Since launching a decade ago, the George Pocock Rowing Foundation’s Erg Ed program has introduced more than 125,000 students to the benefits of rowing.

    2020 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta Canceled

    The 2020 Royal Canadian Henley Regatta, scheduled for August 2-9, 2020, in St. Catharines, Ontario, has been canceled.

    The Rainmaker

    For competitors, the Head of the Charles is rowing’s ultimate destination event. For executive director Fred Schoch, it’s the perfect job.

    Into the Wild

    Bates College coach Peter Steenstra has guided the Maine-based program to four NCAA Division III titles in the past five years. His approach? Let the athletes lead.

    Steward of the Sport

    IRA commissioner Gary Caldwell on the governing body’s unique and evolving role in American intercollegiate rowing, and his future at the helm of it.

    The Talented Yaz Farooq

    Olympian. On-air talent. Coxswain. Coach. Yaz Farooq has had lot of roles in her three-plus decades in the sport. But as the new women’s coach at the University of Washington, her best performance may be yet to come. (Originally published in the February 2017 issue of Rowing News)

    Edward Vincent Winchester 1970 – 2020

    Ed Winchester, editor of Rowing News, passed away Wednesday morning.

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