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While boats from Pac-10 powerhouses like Washington, Stanford, and Cal must fly out to New Jersey and drive their boats across the country, East coast crews like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton can charter buses and incur far fewer costs to attend the IRA regatta...
There are the scheduling dilemmas as well: Harvard and Yale’s heavyweights both swore off the IRA regatta after 1897 to focus on the annual Harvard-Yale race. In 1973, Washington discontinued its annual trip to Camden, citing a scheduling conflict...
Though Harvard, Yale, and Washington have since returned to IRA competition (and with great success), discontent over location and timing is still prevalent...
Flights for more than 40 people significantly outweigh what Harvard must put toward its IRA travel budget each year...
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...