Not far away, also in New Jersey, the UW won finished fourth overall at NCAA Championships. The Huskies won silver medals in both the second eights and the fours, and finished fifth in the varsity eight final. It was the 10th straight, top-five national finish for UW, which has never placed outside of the top-10 in the 28-year history of the NCAA regatta.
At the IRA National Championship Regatta, the UW men won the Varsity 4+ National Championship. In record time. Meanwhile, the Huskies won all three of their eights semifinals, breaking IRA regatta records in two of them. They’ll race for national titles tomorrow.
At the NCAA Championships, the Washington women had all three of its crews advance to Sunday’s grand finals. UW was one of four programs – along with Stanford, Texas and Yale – to have all three crews reach the grand finals. One of those four programs will almost certainly win the national title on Sunday.
Washington’s No. 2-ranked men’s rowing team began defense of its national title with five wins in five races Friday on Cooper River, on day one of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship Regatta. The Huskies picked up wins in all three eights heats (first, second and third varsity eights) and also won both a time trial and an A/B/C semifinal in the varsity four.
The No. 3-ranked Washington women’s rowing team won all three of its heats Friday morning on the first day of action at the 2025 NCAA Rowing Championships on Mercer Lake. The Huskies earned comfortable heat victories in the first and second eights, and the fours, and will compete in A/B semifinals on Saturday’s second day of action.
The No. 3-ranked Washington’s women’s rowing team will compete at the 2025 NCAA Championships May 30-June 1 at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. The Huskies, under ninth-year head coach Yasmin Farooq, earned the No. 4 seed in the first varsity eight, and the No. 2 seed in both the second eight and the four.
The No. 2-ranked Washington men’s rowing team will compete for the program’s 21st national championship, and defend its 2024 titles, this weekend, May 3–June 1, at the 122nd Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championship Regatta, on Cooper River in New Jersey.
The No. 2-ranked Washington women’s rowing team swept all seven grand finals and won the Big Ten Championship Sunday in the Huskies’ first year in their new conference. In the 25-year history of the Big Ten regatta, Washington was just the second team ever to sweep, winning every grand final, joining Ohio State, which accomplished that feat in 2018.
Washington’s men’s rowing team won the grand finals in the second and third varsity eights, and in the varsity four, but fell to rival California in the varsity eight final at the inaugural Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Men’s Rowing Championships Sunday at Lake Natoma.
At the inaugural Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, the No. 1-ranked UW men needed to race in just two heats, winning them both. On Sunday, they’ll have five crews competing for titles. The winner of the varsity eight final will be named the first-ever MPSF Men’s Rowing Champion.