Word: heavyweights
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...right [to Red Top for Harvard-Yale] after IRAs,” heavyweight varsity seven-seat Andrew Boston said. “And us going to IRAs is a fairly recent thing [Harvard returned to the IRAs in 2003]. The Harvard-Yale race is really important. It’s an entirely different race—it’s one of those things that unless you’re part of it, you can’t really understand...
...NCAA were to assume control of men’s heavyweight rowing, the rotating championship site would likely preclude Harvard from attending annually. Harvard-Yale is the second week of June, and IRAs are during the first. Only the proximity of Camden to the racing site in Connecticut makes the combination feasible...
...NCAA’s adoption of women’s heavyweight rowing, for example, has radically increased the sport’s national popularity. Participating women’s state schools receive 20 scholarships for women’s rowing, and the sport has caught on fast at schools hoping to even out Title IX imbalances with a large women’s program...
Women’s lightweight programs still compete at the IRA national championships in Camden, while their heavyweight counterparts travel to a site that changes annually. Either lightweight rowing would disappear along with the IRA, or the lightweights would retain IRA status as the men’s heavyweights were moved to the NCAA label...
...would welcome an exploration of men’s rowing becoming an NCAA sport if I could be assured…[t]hat for every men’s heavyweight event, there would be an equivalent men’s lightweight event,” Yale lightweight coach Andy Card wrote in an email. “[And] that the weigh-in requirements and rules for men’s lightweight rowing currently in effect in the EARC be adopted exactly without modification into an NCAA format...