Lightweight Rowers & the NCAA

somewhereinga
Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:04:53 +0000

Men’s rowing is NOT an NCAA sport, but women’s rowing is.

There are women’s programs that have have both open weight and lightweight squads. Sometimes the squads are totally separate, MIT for example, and sometimes not, Bucknell. In both cases for women, you need to register with the NCAA Clearinghouse in order to proceed with the recruiting process. All of the schools (MIT etc) that we looked at wanted the NCAA Clearinghouse #.

While the ltwt championship is the IRA’s, these women rowers can still be on a team that has mixed squads and possibly be in open weight boats. Bucknell was proud to say that they had a ltwt that was part of their varsity 8+ that won 4 Patriot League Championships.