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Matt Lehrer, Director of Coaching Education at CRI, and Coach of CRI Competitive Women

Hot Seat: Matt Lehrer

“The reason I came to CRI in 2000 is I realized I really wanted to coach and had no idea what I was doing,” Matt Lehrer explains. His coaching education and... 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...

Course Correction: Ginny Gilder Influenced by Title IX

Ginny Gilder, a former member of the US National Rowing Team, adored the sport of rowing ever since she witnessed shells racing on the Charles River in Boston, ... Read More...

Red Rose Crew: An Early Title IX Success Story

The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water, by author Daniel J. Boyne, is the story of how women rowers fought for their right to race at ... Read More...

“Boys in the Boat” Depicts Early 20th Century Life

Thanks to the Ulbrickson Family Collection, we can see the University of Washington Crew in action back in March 1936.The line-up was nearly set when the boys w... 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...

How Lake Union Became a Rowing Hub on the West Coast

Frank Cunningham, a rower and coach from the 1940s until his death at age 91 in 2013, hosts this history of the Pocock Brothers and rowing on Lake Union in Seat... 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...