At Lake Hall in northeast Tallahassee, morning sunlight is lacing its way through the silhouettes of trees. Nearby on the bank, proceeding toward a long dock, come a mostly silent parade of men and ...

Tiefenbrunn is a member of ZLAC Rowing Club, was a longtime volunteer for the San Diego Classic and co-founded the San Diego Crew Classic Foundation’s Junior Stewards program. She is a graduate of the ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – For years, the Quinault cut through the waters of Puget Sound, a training platform for young rowers with a championship story to tell. The 62-foot wooden rowing shell has the scars ...

Our habitual detractors of the youth of the land have overlooked the rowing history of t h e Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In post-war days when the easiest way was supposed to be the ...

With a few rallied dormmates, a donated leaky shell, a handwritten Constitution, a nearly-scorched barn, immense luck and even more hard work, Bob Ford built the Massachusetts men’s club rowing team ...

The racing shells his team used were the same as every university rowing team on the West Coast, and most on the East Coast, had used for decades: long, thin slips of cedar designed and built by ...

Thanks to tectonic shifts in technology and training, Olympic-level rowing has come a long way since the University of Washington’s eight-man crew pulled off the ultimate underdog win at the 1936 ...

Rowing isn’t for the weak-kneed or those who prefer to sleep late. A typical training day starts at sunrise, when rowers arrive at the boathouse and gently lower their racing boats, called rowing ...

A crescent moon was still visible in the deep purple sky when I arrived at the University of Louisville's waterfront boathouse at 5:30 a.m. ready to conquer the swollen Ohio River. It was the final ...