2023 women's D1 rowing recruiting advice

twoinanddone
Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:11:19 +0000

Yes, at some schools merit stacks with athletic scholarships, but the coach can’t award a merit scholarship. It depends on the school when you would know about merit. Some schools have automatic scholarships based on stats, and for those you can make a good guess on what it will be. Daughter’s coach (different sport, but the school has a rowing program too) said "this will be her athletic award, and this ‘should be her merit award based on her stats.’ (of course the coach was wrong but we figured that out on our own).

Only you can decide if it is worth it to do an overnight at an OOS school. If you are full pay at HYP, the OOS with a scholarship and merit would be cheaper but may not be worth it to you. I’d suggest doing at least one to see if she likes that type of environment better than the Ivy.

There may be more money at less prestigious schools. At my daughter’s school, a D2, the Athletic director had been the rowing coach for many years, years when rowing was the biggest (maybe only) sport at the school. We all suspected that crew was fully funded while the other sports were not.