<p>Hi all:
Since crew is not an NCAA sport for men, they don't keep a list of collegiate rowing programs (as far as I can tell, anyway.) My son is a Junior and absolutely wants to row in college. I am happy because this will cut down the list of possible schools considerably, but not so happy since I can't find a list of men's collegiate rowing programs. Any help would be much appreciated. He would like to row D1 but is also open to D3 (he tells me it depends on how fast he gets!). Thanks.</p>
<p>Here's the top D-1 programs last year. Includes some lightweight teams too.</p>
<pre><code>5/29/2007
Rank
Harvard - 1
Washington 1.6 2
Yale 2.5 3
Cal 2.9 4
Princeton 5.2 5
Brown 6.5 6
Wisconsin 6.5 7
Stanford 7.8 8
Michigan 9.1 9
Cornell 12.5 10
Trinity 13.0 11
Navy 13.1 12
Syracuse 13.5 13
NEastern 13.6 14
Penn 13.8 15
L Dartmouth Lwt 14.5 16
OregonSU 14.7 17
L Cornell Lwt 15.0 18
BU 15.8 19
L Harvard Lwt 16.1 20
L Princeton Lwt 16.6 21
L Navy Lwt 17.0 22
Virginia 17.2 23
Columbia 18.0 24
L Gtown Lwt 18.7 25
GW 19.7 26
Purdue 19.8 27
L Yale Lwt 19.8 28
Marist 19.9 29
Temple 20.1 30
</code></pre>
<p>I believe USRowing still keeps a spreadsheet of programs, sorted by college, men and women's, club and team, etc. URL should be <a href="http://www.usrowing.org%5B/url%5D">www.usrowing.org</a>.</p>
<p>try going to the schools websites and checking there.....alot of bigger schools have it as a club sport too so you need to check</p>
<p>You could also try collegeboards's collegematchmakers search engine which allows you to locate schools based a wide variety of criteria including sports/athletics</p>
<p>Thanks so much everyone! This is really helpful information. Much obliged!</p>
<p>Quite a few D3 schools have crew as well. You can look regionally by looking at the regional championships and who fields teams. There is another web site called row2k.com that has a bunch of this kind of news on it as well as archived results from past regattas.</p>
<p>Yes, SB Mom, that is true and thanks. I used scansmom's recommendation and that yielded a LOT of schools, then tried latetoschool's link to US Rowing which turned out to be the jackpot. They have a really good recruiting section, but you have to be a member of US Rowing to enter it (luckily my rower knows his US Rowing number by heart!). THanks again to all. This is a truly amazing board.</p>
<p>You're kidding- I never knew it wasn't an NCAA sport for men- they recently rebuilt the boathouse at UW-Madison into a huge structure on the lakeshore... Eons ago (early '70's) we used to watch the crew members practice when the early fall semester dinner lines - before students learned to not go all at once- extended outside the area lakeshore dining hall. Rowing is big time there, and it also has the academics. (addenda- it has a presence, but at such a large school it gets dwarfed by so many other sports; I notice many good academic schools on the list posted above)</p>
<p>From what I understand, the traditions of rowing (the oldest intercollegiate sport) include such quaint relics as the winning team collecting the shirts - literally - off the backs of the losing teams and the Ivies and others were so loathe to lose the traditions, that they have always declined to shelter under the wing of the NCAA. And yes, the schools for which men's rowing matters tend to be very good schools indeed.</p>
<p>My father rowed at Wisconsin back in the 1920's. Dad Vail was the coach then. When I rowed in the late 60's early 70's college rowing was a mix of club and scool sposored programs and you couldn't really make any judgements on the quality of the programs based on the funding source or sponsorship. There were two "championships" the IRA (intercollegiate rowing association sposored on and the Dad Vail in Philadelphia. The IRA was considered the "Big" one but some schools participated in both.</p>
<p>Generally the IRA schools were better funded with indorr facilities of pne kind or another that gave them a leg up but I can tell you from first hand experience and being in workouts with both types of schools there was not much difference between the top Vail schools and the top IRA schools.</p>
<p>I don't know how things stand now but I do know the number of schools sponsoring womens rowing with scholarships has exploded but you would be very hard pressed to find any school offering a mens scholarship. I also know that the number of club programs has proliferated. All in all the sport has gone through a renaissance.</p>
<p>We actually had a female cox on our "mens" team. We may have been one of the first schools in the country to do that. We also started a womens program when I was there. The lack of NCAA or school oversight for that matter allowed us to do a lot of innovative things. One of my dear friend who passed away from breast cancer a decade back remained deeply involved in rowing her entire life and won a medal in the doubles at the canadian Henley's back in the day.</p>
<p>Rowing was Wisconsin's first intercollegiate sport and is still run as a non scholarship program for the mens' team. The women gets lots of scholies due to Title 9. Their boathouse is the largest in the nation.</p>
<p>Crew is also a great route to the Olympics and worldwide competition opportunities, especially with English universities.</p>
<p>I have a book here you could borrow. But nuts, guess you will just have to go to your high school resource center.</p>
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<p>Indeed this is a time honored tradition which would be considered betting under NCAA rules. My S's favorite T shirts are the ones he won from other teams.</p>
<p>3xboys,</p>
<p>Would your S be a lightweight or heavyweight rower in college? I'm asking because my son is a lightweight rower and even though he did a lot of research before visiting colleges, it was not until we had visited Brown and he had fallen in love with it that he found out that they do not have a separate lightweight men's team. He is now rowing at Dartmouth and loves it so all ended well but I remember how disappointed he was at the time.</p>
<p>He is a heavyweight, momofrower. Interestingly, he said he didn't want to go visit any Division 1 schools until he knew he was fast enough so as not to fall in love with a school and then not be able to go. I think he is very wise for a sixteen year old!</p>