Best School For Crew

mayhew
Mon, 30 May 2011 20:11:08 +0000

Lots of great schools with girls crew, and the advice about checking the NEIRAs results is very good. The NEIRAs encompass just about every prep school in New England. Do you row 4s or 8s? Many schools don’t row both.
Exeter/St. Paul’s/Andover - all strong teams rowing 8s
Groton/Deerfield/Gunnery/Miss. Porter’s etc. - all row 4s
Not that many prep teams row at the HofC as crew is generally kept as a spring only sport at this level of rowing. Very exciting for those few teams that do get to experience HofC at the high school level!
Another suggestion is to look at the rosters of the colleges you think you might want to row for, either D1,DII or DIII. Check out the prep schools attended by many of their rowers, and you will get a good idea of what schools are grooming good talent at the level you are aspiring to.