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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 ...
The Riverside Boat Club is a private, non-profit, rowing club on the Charles River in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. Founded in 1869 by workers from the Riverside Press. Founded in 1869 by workers from the Riverside Press.
1975 – The University of Wisconsin women's rowing team wins NWRA National Championship. 1976 – The Yale women's rowing team strips in front of the Yale athletic director to demand equal opportunity under Title IX. The incident makes national headlines. The documentary film, A Hero for Daisy, memorializes this event.
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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]
Both teams shared their experiences, including being hit by a stream of flying fish. The Sea Donkeys said one team member, Niels Bardoel, was hit five times in one night by the "smelly" creatures.
They finished second in the premier event of the regatta, the Grand Challenge Cup, losing to the British national team by two lengths. Parker was also a path-breaking coach: he was the first women's national team coach in 1975. That eight went on to win a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships (the so-called Red Rose Crew).
Twelve U.S. rowers, roughly a third of the team, reported symptoms of COVID-19 while training in Princeton, New Jersey in 2020.