Last week I was asked to volunteer driving launches for Oakland Strokes at a regatta they were throwing. Heck yeah I wanna do that. The best part of it was when someone said to me, “You’re an Olympic medalist, isn’t this a...

Harvard. The university needs about as much introduction as Barack Obama. "I have never had to explain to a kid what Harvard is," admits 2nd year Associate Head Coach Bill Manning, discussing recruiting advantages. "I have had to...

Let's talk about tradition. Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio is nothing if not one tightly spun web of academic and athletic tradition. Although chartered in its original form in 1835, the small liberal-arts college of around 1,500 students...

Coxwains Off the Water Unlike rowers who get to work out, stay in shape, and tweak their skills on ergs and tanks, coxswains really do not get a chance to improve over the winter. But worse than that, they actually can suffer from a...

Year-round sunshine, warm temperatures, the Pacific Ocean, the eighth largest city in America and the second largest in California, a bustling center of defense, international trade, biotechnology, and healthy living—San Diego sparkles like a...

I used to dream of living in a location where I could commute via rowing. I would have a small dock with a beautiful lightweight, wooden scull on chalks, waiting eagerly for me to put her in the water. Every morning I would grab my sticks and pick...

You have to want to go to Bates College if you want to go row for Bates College. Seems obvious, but Head Coach of the Women's and Men's varsity rowing teams Peter Steenstra doesn't think so. "We don't want to have a kid who...

It is hard to find an American collegiate rowing program as storied as the Yale Heavyweight Men. By some marks, it would be impossible, considering it is the very oldest. The first ever college boat club was founded there in 1843 (Harvard followed a...

The Pacific Northwest. A small town that loves its football (and with good reason: the team is good). A large research university, with over 200 majors ranging from Forestry and Agriculture to Bio engineering to Interior Design and Theater Arts. And...

With a new state-of-the-art boathouse as of 2009, and a new head coach as of fall 2012, the Hawkeye rowing is looking at some major changes. Head Coach Steve Pritzker says it's going to be a "drastic change in style and...

In 2012, Colgate University Men's Rowing had one of the best ratios of medals per athlete of any program competing at the Dad Vail Regatta. They walked away with two silver medals, in the Varsity Pair and Frosh Four; not too bad for the 12 man...

The majority of us have been out of a boat for quite some time now. Even if we were fortunate enough to race during the summer, our season likely ended at the conclusion of Canadian Henley which was a month ago. Now it's time to...