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...different rivers, both Radcliffe crews experienced the same disappointment Saturday—unexpected defeat.In Princeton, the No. 1 lightweight squad could not make it three in a row against the No. 2 Tigers this season, losing the momentum it had built up during the team’s previously undefeated season.On the Charles River the same day, the Black and White heavyweight crew fell to unranked Boston University, stretching the team’s losing streak to four races.At the lightweight showdown between No. 1 and No. 2, Radcliffe was favored to win, but the team’s advantage...
Third in the nation is a title most teams in the country would take in a heartbeat.Radcliffe women’s lightweight crew is not “most teams.”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...
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...
...risk, then, is the loss of several storied aspects of collegiate rowing: the venerated tradition of shirt exchange, small boats racing, and lightweight rowing—a division concentrated in the East Coast since its inception...