Lightweight Rowers & the NCAA

rowdad
Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:29:52 +0000

It seems pretty clear that you don’t need to. My son is in the middle of the lightweight process and has gone on multiple Officials. He’s not registered with the NCAA and it simply has never come up.

FWIW, I also don’t believe that Lightweight rowing is considered a “subset of the varsity team” as someone on this thread suggested. The two sports are entirely separate with different recruiting pools, different head assistant coaches, etc. Both lights and heavies have their own separate varsity, jv and freshman/novice boats, etc.