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Despite an 11-year hiatus due to lack of interest and world wars, the Georgetown University rowing club has grown steadily since its inception in 1876. A women's team joined the men in 1963. In 1996, an additional women's lightweight team was included. Georgetown's various teams have been quite successful recently, earning trips to ...

Men's college rowing is a sport that is experiencing growth, especially at the club level. However, it is not an NCAA sanctioned sport, and college rowing teams compete and organize under different ruling bodies, with the majority of varsity programs being part of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA), which organizes six different qualifying regattas throughout the year in advance of ...

Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the United States. [1] The first intercollegiate race was a contest between Yale and Harvard in 1852. [1] In the 2018-19 school year, there were 2,340 male and 7,294 female collegiate rowers (on 57 and 148 teams, respectively) in Divisions I, II and III, according to the NCAA. [2]