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Cougar rowing selected to NCAA Championships

INDIANAPOLIS – The WSU Cougar rowing team, ranked #14 nationally, has been selected by the NCAA Division I Women’s Rowing Committee to compete at the 2017 NCAA Division I Rowing Championships held May 26-28 at Mercer Lake at West Windsor, N.J.

Rowing coach wins annual conference honor

PULLMAN, Wash. – Rowing coach Arthur Ericsson was named the 2015 Coach of the Year this summer by the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association, a collegiate conference that includes both varsity and club teams.

Canada selects Hare for world championships

  WSU sophomore Nicole Hare, center, helps propel team to 14th-place finish at the 2013 NCAA Championships. Photo courtesy of Washington State Athletics.        VICTORIA, B.C. – Washington State University rowing sophomore, Nicole Hare, has been named to Rowing Canada Aviron’s 2013 Under-23 Team and will compete with the women’s eight crew July 24-28 […]

Messing about in boats

    Photography by Tim Marsh, WSU University Relations   PULLMAN – “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” That’s a line from the classic children’s book, “The Wind in the Willows.” I’m sure it was in the back […]

48th Annual Cougar Sports Banquet and auction

PULLMAN – The annual Cougar Sports Banquet and Auction featuring WSU Athletic Director Bill Moos and former WSU football standout Rueben Mayes is set for Aug. 19 at the Coeur d’Alene Resort and Convention Center.   Cougar head coaches and other former standout WSU student-athletes will also be at the event. Mayes played for WSU during […]

Cougs look to beat Gonzaga

PULLMAN – The WSU Men’s Crew Team will host Gonzaga University Friday, Oct. 30, at 3 p.m. The race will be at Wawawai Landing on the Snake River.   Ganzaga defeated WSU in last Saturday’s varsity eight-man race, losing by a four-second margin. The Cougars are looking to improve their performance in this upcoming race. […]

Men’s crew team to practice in Tri-Cities

RICHLAND — The WSU Men’s Crew will be practicing March 16-18 on the Columbia River along the WSU Tri-Cities campus.   During rowing practice, the eight- and four-man boats will pull in near the pump house on the shoreline below the WSU Tri-Cities East Building at 2710 University Drive. This is along the bike path […]

Donations accepted Oct. 24 and 25

The annual Men’s Crew Row-A-Thon will be held on the Glenn Terrell Mall Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 24 and 25.  This event requires that the team row a minimum of 2,000,000 meters on rowing machines within a 24 hour period.  Half of the on-campus donations will be given to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.  In […]