High School Archives

Hot Seat: WBC Head Coach Tom Rooks

With the ink still drying on his diploma, Tom Rooks was offered a coaching position at his alma mater, Boon High School in Orlando, Fl. That first season inclu... Read More...

US Women's 8+ cox-toss at 2013 World Championships. (row2k image)

U.S. Olympic Cox Katelin Snyder: Coxswains ARE Teammates

"Change the culture of what it means to be a coxswain." So proclaimed US National team coxswain Katelin Snyder at RowingTalks, held on the campus of Washington... Read More...

The Provenance of Plop (aka Perfect Splash)

Marc Mandel, the head coach of Gonzaga College High School (the D.C. schoolboy varsity eight that performed so well at the 2015 Royal Henley Regatta) must get... Read More...

Head Coach Isake Smith (center) of Harlem River Community Rowing, with four of her masters rowers.

Diversity in Rowing: Pressing into the Wind

To understand the current state of diversity in rowing – or lack thereof – we have to look back at the origins of the modern sport of rowing.* For centuries,... Read More...

45 Drills for Fine-Tuning Technique

As a coach, you most likely have an arsenal of technique drills that you use over and over throughout the season to help fine tune your crew's skills. Where did... Read More...

Men of Kent: Their Record Season

The Men of Kent: Ten boys, a fast boat, and a coach who made them champions, by Rick Rinehart, depicts the history of Kent School from it’s founding in 1906 thr... Read More...

2014 LTA national team Ricky Vendegrift's hammer and his national team bag

2015 C.R.A.S.H.-B. Highlights

More than 2,300 athletes signed up to go nowhere fast at the 2015 C.R.A.S.H.-B. World Indoor Rowing Championships held at Boston University's Agganis Arena. Fi... Read More...

Sweep, Scull, and Coxswain Camps

Whether you're a high school student thinking about rowing in college, a collegiate rower seeking a spot on the Under 23 National team, or a masters rower wanti... Read More...

Fall rowing for novice crews can be daunting. Make sure your rowers and coxswains make safe and smart decisions on the water.

4 Lessons from the 2014 Snowflake Regatta Debacle

America loves to watch people suffer. Boxing matches. Home videos of Dads getting whacked in the nuts by their kids' whiffleball bats. Craning our necks to see... Read More...

RowSource founder and lead blogger Rachel Freedman steers a MM4 40+ for DC Strokes Rowing Club

Review: Coxing the Head of the Charles 2014

The Head of the Charles Regatta turned 50 this year. Another year older, another year stronger. That's how I felt – older and stronger – when I slid down into ... Read More...

Occoquan Chase: Steering Your Best Line

If you cox for a high school, college, or masters club in the MidAtlantic region, I expect I'll see you at the hugely popular Occoquan Chase regatta at Sandy Ru... Read More...