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The IRA runs the IRA National Championship Regatta, which since 1895 has been considered to be the United States collegiate national championship of men's rowing. This regatta today includes both men's and women's (lightweight) events for 8- and 4-oared sweep boats with coxswains and a women's lightweight double scull (two-oars for each rower ...
Before 2006, competitive club rowing programs, which receive little or no funding from their university athletic departments, were able to compete at the IRA Championship. During the 2006-2007 season, Rutgers University cut funding from its men's rowing program, reducing it to "club" status. Part of Rutgers's justification for cutting rowing ...
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. [4] Women's rowing initially competed in its intercollegiate championships as part of the National Women's Rowing Association Championship in 1971. [5]
Regier, who was a former Washington oarsman and IRA champion, also received a tribute from UW men's rowing head coach Michael Callahan. "Austin had a special spirit he brought to life," Callahan ...
The Hudson River Rowing Association "welcomed back" the Poughkeepsie Regatta in October 2008, running races in eight classifications on a 2.3-mile segment of the traditional course. [ 9 ] In October 2009, to celebrate the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson 's exploration of the Hudson River, Marist College hosted a reenactment of the Poughkeepsie ...
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 ...
The University of Washington (foreground) at the 2019 IRA Championships where they won the Ten Eyck Trophy. The Jim Ten Eyck Memorial Trophy [1] is presented annually by the Syracuse Regatta Association to the rowing team with the highest points score at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta.
At Brown, Gladstone crews amassed four Eastern Sprints championships, five IRA championships [3] [8] and two National Collegiate Rowing Championship titles. In both 1993 and '94, the Brown varsity crew completed the "triple crown" with victories in each of these regattas – a feat that had never before been accomplished.