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...NCAA’s adoption of women’s heavyweight rowing, for example, has radically increased the sport’s national popularity. Participating women’s state schools receive 20 scholarships for women’s rowing, and the sport has caught on fast at schools hoping to even out Title IX imbalances with a large women’s program...
Under NCAA rules, student athletes are prohibited from betting on any sporting event—something rowers do every week. Prior to each race, competing crews wager racing T-shirts, with the victors taking home the shirt of each crew they’ve beaten. Such practice would fall by the wayside under NCAA restrictions, destroying one of the more storied traditions of college athletics’ oldest sport...
...would get rid of shirt racing,” Boston said. “Everybody always says a gentleman’s sport comes with a gentleman?...
...would welcome an exploration of men’s rowing becoming an NCAA sport if I could be assured…[t]hat for every men’s heavyweight event, there would be an equivalent men’s lightweight event,” Yale lightweight coach Andy Card wrote in an email. “[And] that the weigh-in requirements and rules for men’s lightweight rowing currently in effect in the EARC be adopted exactly without modification into an NCAA format...
Whatever the outlook, an NCAA takeover of men’s rowing could drastically alter the schedule and stature of East Coast collegiate rowing—the very place the sport originated...