Rowing Illustrated

https://sacredheartpioneers.com/news/2026/6/1/general-sacred-heart-university-to-launch-varsity-mens-rowing-team Is the rowing push coming from athletics or admissions? Almost certainly admissions. That post says they’re targeting 60 athletes. At ~65k a year, it doesn’t take that many athletes to p...

IRA heats are available

H1: Harvard - Penn - Cornell - Georgetown - Columbia
H2: Princeton - Dartmouth - MIT - Yale - Navy

The H2 race for 2nd and 3rd among D/M/Y is by far the most interesting race here, imo. One pretty good crew will be on the outside looking in

Big10 - UW, Rutgers, Ohio ACC - Stanford, Virginia, Cal, Syracuse Ivy - Princeton, Yale, Brown SEC - Tennessee, Texas Big12 - UCF Lesser AQ - UMass, Rhode Island, Northeastern, BostonU, Jacksonville, Oregon State That leaves three, right? Alabama, Columbia, Duke, Miami, Michigan, or ???? Is there a...

Guy wrote: ↑Fri Sep 12, 2025 6:34 pm Gordon Getsinger to Dartmouth

What’s the story here? I can’t imagine UW loses many 1st assistants to lateral moves

Not to be a downer, but I was in DC in the late 80s early 90s and Georgetown had plans that were approved by various boards/commissions and both were squashed by the community as soon as it was opened up for feedback. I was amazed at the number of people who came out of the woodwork opposing it, wi...

Some cool news - Georgetown reached an agreement with the National Park Service and D.C. to swap around parcels on the Potomac to finally be able to build a dedicated campus-adjacent boathouse. https://guhoyas.com/story.aspx?filename=mens-rowing-georgetown-university-national-park-service-and-distri...

Marty Crotty is stepping down. https://goprincetontigers.com/news/2025/6/3/mens-rowing-lightweight-marty-crotty-steps-down-as-mens-lightweight-rowing-head-coach So the optimal candidate here has to be Nase right? Princeton alum, olympian, successful at C150, possible friction with Cornell admin ove...

lt.wolf wrote: ↑Tue Jun 03, 2025 10:48 am The is very on the rumor. Marty Crotty may be leaving Princeton for the cycling industry full time. What a run with the Tigers!

Not confirmed.

Now confirmed on their Instagram. Pursuing “other professional opportunities”

That was probably the best IRA final in years, right? New medalists, Harvard setting up a dynasty, love it. When did MIT last medal in an 8 at IRA? I don’t know what was happening with wind race to race but Harvard dropping a time that would’ve won the heavy 1V is really something. Dartmouth would’v...

Why are the Cornell lights out of the IRA? This is confirmed, buried in a Row2k preview: https://www.row2k.com/ira/features/2025/1977/2025-iras-how-to-watch-what-to-know/ "The Cornell entries were withdrawn by the school administration for an issue that occurred during university-sponsored tra...

It’s just one metric covering V8 only and not program depth, so obviously not a perfect metric, but I was curious to put some numbers on this. Comparing ‘24 and ‘25 Cmax for the teams mentioned here: UCF: -30.9 -> -16.1 = 14.7 second improvement Radcliffe: -32.3 -> -19.1 = 13.2 seconds Dartmouth: -2...

I see that the IRA has changed qualification rules on the fly and invited every EARC team? Compare the selection process on the IRA website (https://www.irarowing.com/general-information) with the selection process on the letter on Row2k today (https://www.row2k.com/ira/2025/122ndIRAAllSelectedTeams...

Interesting how the NCAA keeps track of Crew (men's rowing) and Lightweight Crew (lightweight men) as sports teams, but they have no record of women's lightweight rowing teams. They’re not keeping that close of track though - both counts appear wrong. The IRA recognizes 64 heavy members and 12 ligh...

According to Row2k, Harvard had someone from the 2V8 take ill Sunday morning. The did the bump-up shuffle and the winning 2V8, 3V8, and 4V4 were all rowing with new lineups devised that morning by the coaches around 7:30am: https://www.row2k.com/EARC/features/2025/1412/sprints-harvard-paints-quinsi...

If MAC was a real conference of universities competing for championships in all sports that would be one thing. But the MAC conference championship for women's rowing is 50% comprised of affiliate members Delaware, High Point and Temple. Borderline sketch as an AQ. Fwiw, the Big 12 is 50% affiliate...