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...After finishing behind Princeton and Wisconsin at the IRA national championships the past two years, the Black and White came into the season expecting a change.The team wanted to get back on top, and the No.1 Radcliffe crew has done just that.With the men’s heavyweight team losing a head-to-head race for the first time in three years, the Black and White is the new top team on the Charles. For those who have gone through past years of disappointment, such as senior captains Sarah Bates and Ashley Antony, it has been a long time coming...
With the entire East Coast racing faster and faster regattas, the Black and White’s boat is struggling to catch up. On Saturday in New Haven, this reality did not change. The Harvard women’s heavyweight crew lost at Yale this weekend, extending its three-race losing streak into the heart of the season. In the first varsity eight, the Black and White fell behind the Bulldogs from the beginning, losing by ten seconds with a time of 6:50.1. “We definitely thought we were pretty well matched up against Yale, given...
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...
...Crimson heavyweights have won three straight IRA national titles in Camden and five straight Harvard-Yale dual races. One of those annual appearances would likely cease if the NCAA adopted men’s rowing. For the lightweights, the NCAA label might leave them to the IRA format or dissolve them all together, since the women’s NCAA regatta allows just three heavyweight boats to compete...