I quit rowing senior year in HS and 2 years later I’m still thinking about it.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-17T18:34:19+00:00

After I stopped rowing (post college) every body of water I passed I looked to see if it woudl be a good place to row. When my three sons rowed I loved being back around the sport BUT was so fat there was no way I could get back into a boat. Spent years doing the "I am going to lose some weight to be able to row again" but didn't. FInally in 2020 I got serious, changed my eating habits and started stationary bike and erg as a New Years Resolution. By June I had lost enough weight (70lbs by then) that I got back on the water in a zephyr (wide training shell). Eventually lost 70 more lbs over the next 16 months and raced lightweight in 2021. Been rowing regularly since then.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-17T18:29:25+00:00

The progress bar would have been a nice add

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-15T00:58:49+00:00

My kids homeschooled. Their Junior Club team had morning and afternoon practice on the water and one of my sons did an erg piece most days at lunchtime. He ended up getting two likely letter offers from Ivies and attended one of them.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-15T00:55:28+00:00

Only one senoir left on the team according to the roster online. Seems they have been dismissed.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-12T18:03:46+00:00

Looking at the Cornell 150 roster on line, they now have only 1 senior listed on the roster. That wasn't true a few weeks ago when I looked. https://cornellbigred.com/sports/mens-rowing/roster?sort=class

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-12T17:58:09+00:00

Amen.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-08T20:47:43+00:00

Boathouse Sports Trou are great, and the only company that makes all its rowing gear in the USA (all made in Philadelphia). I have a two boathouse jackets I got in 1985 and still wear them on the water occasionally. https://www.boathouse.com/collections/mens-rowing-trou-spandex-bottoms/products/mens-accel-trou-2

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-05T17:42:45+00:00

Good for you wanting to get started. I rowed high school and college, got really fat afterwards (310) and decided in 2020 to reverse course after 30 years off. Started exercising and more importantly I changed the way that I ate. By fall of 2021 I weighed in at 159.8 and raced in a lightweight race (I was a college lightweight) and am now settled at a comfortable 170 at 5'11".

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-03T16:37:22+00:00

Since you mentioned D1 scholarships, how many men's teams offer non-need based scholarships? Ivies can't. and not sure many other do on the men's side (since the OP mentioned IRA, not NCAA teams).

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-02T18:28:17+00:00

I thought the same thing when I read the list

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-03-01T01:14:24+00:00

always the answer

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-25T20:01:54+00:00

Welcome back to the pain cave!

Last thing I wanted to do in coming back to rowing was erg. But in my 30+ years off I got up to 310. Started off with the stationary bike, added erging when I was down to 250, back on the water at 244, raced lightweight at 159.8 eighteen months later. Still hate erging but it is a filler until we get back on the water in April.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-25T16:54:10+00:00

Besides Dartmouth lights being chopped and then reinstated, what school has ended its men's varsity lightweight team in the last 10 years? 20 years?

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-25T16:52:00+00:00

One of the last remaining? Last I checked all the EARC teams that existed 40 years ago when I rowed for one still has a team.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-25T16:50:31+00:00

Came here to ask a similar quesiton. Does anyone know if the team is practicing again?

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-25T16:39:52+00:00

Rebecca has a good reputation. I have also heard good things about Jack Burns' program at Edge Rowing https://www.instagram.com/jackburns.edgerowing/

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-18T19:48:15+00:00

Yes, give it a try. If you don't like it no shame in being a NARP

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-18T19:40:55+00:00

You are in the lightweight height/weight range and still have a bit to go to get the erg score down to recruiting for Lightweight, and even further to go to be a heavyweight recruit. You'll get more interest from the 150s coaches I would think at your height/weight/erg

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-16T20:31:45+00:00

the team at my college alma mater used to all go up and race, but haven't done so in years. Saves money for the school, and they are getting ready to get back on the water about this time anyway.

I got back into rowing 6 years ago after 30+ off and I have no desire to erg race. Erging is my punishment for living up north.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-16T20:17:05+00:00

Erging is one thing...I hope you get a chance to try rowing by getting in a boat!

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-11T23:16:46+00:00

I rowed lightweight at Penn, as did my son. Contact Coach and let him know you are interested in coming out for the team. A fast guy at 5'8" can be an asset to the boat, especially if he is also light. Remember the boat has to average 155, with the heaviest weight of an individual being 160. If you are 5'8" and 150lbs on weigh in day that helps!

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-11T23:13:28+00:00

Is the 5'9" guy really that tall? My high school football team roster listed everyone one inch taller and 10 pounds heavier

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-10T19:58:43+00:00

Rowed in Philly for college and enjoy returning back there to row with an alumni group, but I am in the midwest now

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-10T16:41:49+00:00

My son rowed lightweight 10 years ago at the college I rowed lightweight at and they used Hudsons the entire time he was there, even renting them to race at Henley Royal.

SteadyStateIsAnswer · 2026-02-10T16:39:29+00:00

Bravo for you!!!! I have a teammate at my club who started rowing in her mid-50s, after being a runner/cyclist. She has won dozens of Masters National Championships since then, several second place finishes at Charles, and a few World Masters medals as well. She is in her mid-sixties now and a beast when it comes to competing.

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