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The Wellesley College Crew Team, affectionately known as "Blue Crew", was founded in 1970 and was the first women's intercollegiate rowing team in the country. In 2016, Blue Crew won the NCAA Division III Rowing Championship as a team for the first time in Wellesley history, with its first Varsity 8+ boat placing first and second Varsity 8 ...
In 2017, Bates again won the team title, although Williams placed first in the Varsity 8+ grand final. In 2022, Wellesley won the team title, despite WPI winning the Varsity 8+ grand final. In all other years, the winner of the Varsity 8+ race also won the NCAA Division III team title. [4]
These include top club teams such as Virginia and Michigan as well as lower level varsity programs such as Hobart and St. Joseph's University. Other club programs and all programs outside the NCAA/IRA structure compete at the ACRA National Championship Regatta. In collegiate men's rowing, the First Varsity 8 is meant to be the fastest boat.
Wellesley College in Massachusetts was the first school to organize a competitive rowing team for women in the late 19th century. The 19th Century English rower Ann Glanville achieved national celebrity becoming known as the champion female rower of the world; [ 7 ] her all-women crew often winning against the best male teams.
Charter members included Babson College, Brandeis University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Smith College, Wellesley College and Wheaton College, beginning the 1985–86 academic year. 1988 - The NEW-6 has been rebranded as the New England Women's 8 Conference (NEW-8), beginning the 1988–89 academic year.
Twelve U.S. rowers, roughly a third of the team, reported symptoms of COVID-19 while training in Princeton, New Jersey in 2020.
The Miami Rowing Club team made history by winning the gold medal in the U17 category of the men’s coxed 4 boat during the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston.
Grogan was a native of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.In September 1974, he was a student at Harvard University. [3] While there, he sat stroke position in the university's heavyweight rowing team, winning the 1975 Harvard–Yale Regatta varsity race. [4]