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The NCAA Division I Rowing Championship is a rowing championship held by the NCAA for Division I women's heavyweight (or openweight) collegiate crews. All of the sponsored races are 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) long (the NCAA does not sponsor men's rowing (both heavyweight and lightweight) and women's lightweight rowing championships).
In the 1996–97 season, most women's intercollegiate rowing programs elected to join the NCAA as a "Championship" sport. [6] Men's rowing declined to join the NCAA, but virtually all colleges abide by NCAA regulations. Other governing bodies of college rowing in the United States include the American Collegiate Rowing Association (ACRA). [7]
Intercollegiate sports began in the United States in 1852 when crews from Harvard and Yale universities met in a challenge race in the sport of rowing. [13] As rowing remained the preeminent sport in the country into the late-1800s, many of the initial debates about collegiate athletic eligibility and purpose were settled through organizations like the Rowing Association of American Colleges ...
Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the United States. Men's rowing has organized collegiate championships in various forms since 1871. The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) has been the de facto national championship for men since 1895. Women's rowing initially competed in its intercollegiate championships as part of the ...
The Rowing Association of American Colleges (1870 to 1894) the first collegiate athletic organization in the United States, was a body governing college rowing. [1] Upon organization by the captains of the leading crews of the day, they devised a primary rule of eligibility: that only undergraduate students should be eligible to represent their college in the regatta.
The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) governs intercollegiate rowing between varsity men's heavyweight, men's lightweight, and women's lightweight rowing programs across the United States, while the NCAA fulfills this role for women's open weight rowing. [1]
The IRA National Championship has been considered the national collegiate rowing championship since it was first held in 1895. The Cincinnati Regatta was founded as a way to popularize rowing in the midwest. After the creation of the NCAA Rowing Championship for women in 1997, the Cincinnati Regatta dissolved. Seven years later, Harvard and ...
Established in 2008 by Gregg Hartsuff under the General Not for Profit Association Act of 1986, the American Collegiate Rowing Association (ACRA) is made up of club-level collegiate rowing teams. Before 2006, competitive club rowing programs, which receive little or no funding from their university athletic departments, were able to compete at ...