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It was an organizational member of USRowing, the national governing body for the sport of rowing in the United States, until 2024. VASRA runs 8-9 regattas during the scholastic spring season. Most events are on the Occoquan Reservoir at Sandy Run Regional Park , only the Charlie Butt Regatta is on the Potomac River and is run from Thompson Boat ...
USRowing is also responsible for national team selection, and runs events to identify and select national team athletes including the National Selection Regatta and olympic trials. USRowing is a member of the United States Olympic Committee and the International Rowing Federation.
In 2024, the event will be replaced by the RowFest Summer Championships, which will last ten days and include entertainment and development opportunities as well as championship racing. [7] The program head at the time for USRowing, Derek P. Chytil, wanted to realize this change to prevent the national event from becoming one "based soly on a ...
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.
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.
For the more competitive races and bigger boats, like the women's 8+ and 4-, the athletes are chosen via the USRowing selection camp, [7] which is an invitation-only event. The national team coaches distribute the invitations to athletes who meet a certain criteria that they set in collaboration with the USRowing organization.
Beginning in 1973, Washington decided to skip the IRA because a change in schedule conflicted with its finals. Washington, however, returned to the regatta in 1995. From 1982 to 1996, another event, the Cincinnati Regatta (which renamed itself the National Collegiate Rowing Championship ), was held in Cincinnati with funding from a benefactor.
The Northwest Collegiate Rowing Conference (NCRC) consists of seven NCAA Division II and III member schools in USRowing's Northwest region. Its mission is to provide for the advancement of small college and university rowing within the Pacific Northwest primarily through the organization and administration of a championship regatta.