IRA, Head of the Charles and Henley Royal: row2k's most-read Regatta Features of 2022

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January 3, 2023
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Once again in 2022, row2k covered dozens of regattas around the US and the world. Read on for our ten most-read regatta dispatches from the past year!

The Cal Bears took the top spot

IRA Regatta
1: IRA Sunday: Cal Takes Men's Eight, Columbia and Princeton Take the Lightweights

June 5, 2022

?We provided the framework, we provided the training, but it's them who create the personality of our group. This is the guys' time and this is their story and their slice of history. What a great day for them.?
Cal Men's Head Coach Scott Frandsen

The Cal men's V8 again proved too strong for the field, notching their first IRA win in 6 years, while the Columbia Light Men and the Princeton Lightweight women took the marquee eights in their respective divisions. Read more

The USRowing men captured the Men's Champ Eight and set a new course record

Head of the Charles
2: HOCR Sunday: Bring on the Big Boats!

October 23, 2022

?There's no big secret. It's taking the time to focus on the simple things, processes, and that helps put together a result like today's.?
Leander Women's coxswain Morgan Baynham-Williams

With the youth, championship, lightweight and collegiate events hitting the water on Sunday, the Charles River basin fills up with big boats Read more

IRA Regatta
3: Tony Johnson Leads Hoyas to One Final IRA Podium

June 5, 2022

?When you think of your own rowing experiences, any of us that have gone through a year, or two-or two dozen-with a college rowing program, you think of the relationships: really, really positive and strong personal relationships that people develop. That's great. That's wonderful. That's sport. That's teamwork. There's just so much of that in rowing: you have something in common with those people that you train with, you work with--you laid it on the line with them.?
Tony Johnson

Today at the 119th IRA, Coach Tony Johnson, now 81, launched his last crew for a Grand Final: a Varsity Four racing as the sole representative of the Georgetown Heavyweight program he guided for 28 years before his retirement in 2014. Read more

Molly Reckford and Michelle Sechser, with the Stonor Challenge Trophy

Henley Royal Regatta
4: Henley Royal: Red Box Day for 5 US Crews - Sunday Report

July 4, 2022

?It's such an almost quiet, intimate battle out there. Just two crews, and it's really new to me, new to Molly [Reckford]. It's so quiet, you can almost hear the other crew talking, you hear their rhythm from the oarlock, so it's really fascinating to be battling in such a quiet private space.?
Michelle Sechser, USA LW2x

Finals Day, finally -- and five US crews won it all. Read more

Another year, another win + record for Gevvie Stone

Head of the Charles
5: HOCR Saturday: A Veritable Speed Factory Produces 15 New Course Records

October 22, 2022

?Essentially, the Head of the Charles is the world championships of head racing.?
Peter Antonie (AUS)

The Charles was a veritable speed factory today, as 15 events saw new course records over the course of the day. Read more

The Williams Men won the inaugural D3 title

IRA Regatta
6: IRA Saturday: D3, Men's Fours Champs Crowned, Heavy Finals Set

June 4, 2022

?It just creates a much more compelling spring season for guys who are looking to row at at the collegiate level as high school rowers, even for our own guys. Before, the postseason didn't make as much sense, and now can go and try to race for the national championship.?
Tufts coach George Munger

The D3 Men, and the Men's Heavy and Lightweight fours crowned their national champs at the IRA today, while the heavyweight men racing set the remaining national championship finals in torrid semifinals, and the Lightweight women also kicked off their regatta with preliminaries. Read more

Stanford, then Washington in 1V Semi #2

NCAA Champs
7: NCAA Saturday: Four D1 Teams Put All Crews Into A Finals

May 28, 2022

?Something that's great about this regatta and the way the champion is determined is that it takes the entire team.?
Texas coach Dave O'Neill

Semi Saturday sets the Grand Finals for the 2022 NCAA Women's Championship Read more

The Yale heavies paced the pack

IRA Regatta
8: IRA Friday: Fast, Flat and on Form

June 3, 2022

?How often does any crew race 2000 meters on a six lane course? For American collegiate rowers, rarely. So I frame it this way: this is an opportunity to refine your 2000 meter racing. And so you want to take each one of these opportunities here to do that.?
Yale coach Steve Gladstone

The 2022 IRA got underway today with fast racing in flat-to-fast conditions, as the Heavy Men, the D3 Men and the Lightweight Men all got their National Championship regatta started in fine form. The Light Women's races will join the program tomorrow. Read more

Texas won the team championship

NCAA Champs
9: D1 Championship: Texas Two-Peat

May 29, 2022

?Today, we went out with the same focus and then just raced our second half how we normally do and I think [our fast start] was an added excitement. When you're up off the start, you think, 'Okay, we're in this, we got this,' especially when you can see that you're up off the start, like I can in the stern. It can make a huge difference.?
Fran Raggi (Texas)

Texas made it a two-fer, winning the 1V to claim 2nd title in as many years. Read more

US Men's Eight

World Championships
10: Worlds Sunday: Racing Wraps in Racice for USA

September 25, 2022

?Fourth was not what we exactly we wanted but I'm extremely proud of my guys and the race, the training, and everything we had we left out on the water.?
USA M8+ coxswain Jimmy Catalano

The US Men's and Women's eight each took fourth today; the W2x, M1x, and M2x notch strong finishes Read more

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