The Washington men’s rowing team opened the 2025-26 season with an excellent performance at the 60th annual Head of the Charles Regatta, winning the Collegiate Division in the Championship Eights while defending its crown with a win in the Championship Fours.
The Washington men’s rowing team will compete this Sunday at the 60th Head of the Charles Regatta, the premier fall rowing event of the year. Washington will enter crews in the men’s championship four and eights. Washington will also have entries in the men’s and women’s alumni races on Saturday.
Washington’s Logan Ullrich has joined an elite list of University of Washington student-athletes who have been honored as their sport’s National Athlete of the Year today as he was honored with the inaugural “The Oarsman” Award from the Intercollegiate Rowing Coaches’ Association, the national governing body for college men’s rowing.
The UW men won their 21st National Championship with a win in the varsity eight grand final at the IRAs. The Huskies also won the second varsity eight title for the 33rd time, the Ten Eyck Trophy (overall points) for the 19th time, and finished a very close second in the third varsity eight final.
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.