American governing bidy for intercollegiate rowing
Intercollegiate Rowing Association
Abbreviation
IRA
Legal status
Association
Website
IRA official website
The Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) governs intercollegiate rowing between varsity men's heavyweight, men's lightweight, and women's lightweight rowing programs across the United States, while the NCAA fulfills this role for women's open weight rowing.[1] It is the direct successor to the Rowing Association of American Colleges, the first collegiate athletic organization in the United States,[2] which operated from 1870–1894.
The IRA was founded by Cornell, Columbia, and Penn in 1894 and its first annual regatta was hosted on June 24, 1895. Today Navy and Syracuse are also part of the association. Each year these five schools choose whom to invite to the IRA National Championship Regatta and are responsible for its organization.
The IRA runs the IRA National Championship Regatta, which since 1895 has been considered to be the United States collegiate national championship of men's rowing. This regatta today includes both men's and women's (lightweight) events for 8- and 4-oared sweep boats with coxswains and a women's lightweight double scull (two-oars for each rower) event.
The IRA National Championship is the oldest college rowing championship in the United States.
The IntercollegiateRowingAssociation (IRA) governs intercollegiaterowing between varsity men's heavyweight, men's lightweight, and women's lightweight...
Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the United States. The first intercollegiate race was a contest between Yale and Harvard in 1852. In the...
sweep-oar rowing at the University of Washington. He rowed in UW senior varsity eights which won US national IntercollegiateRowingAssociation titles in...
competition to award the national intercollegiaterowing crown. Presently, this race is known as the IntercollegiateRowingAssociation Regatta. The Varsity 8s...
Poughkeepsie Regatta was the annual championship regatta of the U.S. IntercollegiateRowingAssociation (IRA) when it was held in Poughkeepsie, New York from 1895...
together with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the IntercollegiateRowingAssociation (IRA). Established in 2008 by Gregg Hartsuff...
in the 20th century. Pocock-built shells began to win U.S. IntercollegiateRowingAssociation championships in 1923. He achieved international recognition...
of Washington senior varsity eights which won US national IntercollegiateRowingAssociation titles in 1936 and 1937. In 1936, he rowed to an Olympic gold...
of Washington senior varsity eight which won US national IntercollegiateRowingAssociation titles in 1936.At the 1936 Olympics, he won the gold medal...
of Washington senior varsity eights which won US national IntercollegiateRowingAssociation titles in 1936 and 1937 as well as the victorious sophomore...
Ten Eyck Trophy is given to the rowing team with the highest points score at the IntercollegiateRowingAssociation regatta each year. It is named after...
The men's and lightweight women's programs compete at the IntercollegiateRowingAssociation (IRA) Championship Regatta because the NCAA does not sanction...
men's rowing team, but men's rowing is not sanctioned by the NCAA. The rowing teams are members of the Western IntercollegiateRowingAssociation. The...
League (men), Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (men), Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges, Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League (men)...
Cricket, National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association and IntercollegiateRowingAssociation. Additionally, the first tier is characterized by selective...
pitted the winners of the Eastern Sprints, the Pac-10s, the IntercollegiateRowingAssociation (IRA) National Championship and other crews invited at-large...
the Intercollegiate Cricket Association existed from 1881 through 1924. In 1895, Cornell, Columbia, and Penn founded the IntercollegiateRowing Association...
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