After the Dad Vails moved the 2023 regatta to Camden earlier this year, several NCAA automatic qualifier regattas found themselves without a venue; The Ivy Championship is the first to officially announce a replacement regatta venue and will hold the 2023 event concurrently with the EARC Men’s Eastern Sprints on May 14 in Worcester, MA. See the Ivy League press release below.

Quamichan Lake in North Cowichan was the weekend’s venue, but Serbia next September was the destination.

Less than a year after the 2023 World Rowing Championships, which is the main qualifier for the Paris 2024 Olympics, top Canadian rowers have made a case for being in Belgrade next summer.

It appears to be an experienced team preparing for Belgrade and eventually Paris 2024, as several familiar faces made their way into the winners’ circle during the Canadian Championships at Quamichan Lake, which featured more than 250 rowers from 45 clubs . Rowing at the National Championships is conducted in small boats, individually or in pairs, to give coaches more control over evaluating individual strengths.

Avalon Wasteneys of Campbell River, University of Victoria Vikes graduate, and Sydney Payne of Mill Bay, graduate of Brentwood College, both gold medalists at the Tokyo Olympics with the Canadian Eight Crew, won the Kathleen Heddle and Marnie McBean Plate as Women’s Doubles Champions.

Olympians Jakub Buczek and Curtis Ames won the George Hungerford and Roger Jackson Trophy as men’s doubles champions.

The trophies are named after Canadian rowing legends.

Olympic gold medalist Carling Zeeman, who is also a paramedic on the island, was the winner of the Silken Laumann Plate as the women’s singles winner and Liam Smit was the winner of the Derek Porter Trophy as the men’s singles winner.

In other notable results, Olympian Jill Moffatt won the Wendy Wiebe Trophy in women’s lightweight singles and Emerson Crick won the Brian Thorne Trophy in men’s lightweight singles.

In the Future Clocks category, Cait Whittard was named the Bobby Pearce Award winner for Female Junior Rower of the Year and Lucas Maroney and Owen Bartel were co-recipients of the Jack Guest Award for Best Junior Rower.

The national rowing team, based at Elk Lake for four decades, is now centralized at Quamichan Lake.

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Rowers from St. John’s College dominated the University Fours with one boat in each final, narrowly beating Jesus by a university medal in both the men’s and women’s events.

The Lady Margaret Boat Club of St John’s College (or ‘Maggie’ for short) took a crew to the finals of each race in all four divisions (M1, M2, W1 and W2) but were unable to repeat the successes of 2016 and up each category win first time. Caius won both of the second division.

The annual University Fours competition is one of only three events where a university medal is up for grabs, and is the only one to be rowed in fours (four rowers and one helmsman). While not as idiosyncratic as the infamously chaotic Bumps, the multi-day knockout event still puts its own spin on the regatta format, with boats starting 120m apart while racing to different start and finish posts simultaneously.

In Wednesday’s heats, plagued by wind gusts up to 22 mph, the men’s teams of Kings and Homerton both unexpectedly defeated college rowing giants Magdalene (third in May Bumps) and Pembroke (fourth in May Bumps) by margins of just two seconds. Wednesday’s much-anticipated race between old rivals Maggie and Caius was surprisingly one-sided, with Maggie confidently forcing a 22-second lead over the May Bumps leaders.

Highlights of Thursday’s quarter-finals included Jesus W1’s best time of the year in the race against Magdalene and Caius W1’s closely fought win over Pembroke.

In Friday’s semifinals, the men of Emmanuel and Kings and the women of Churchill and Caius were unable to overtake the Maggie and Jesus crews.

In the women’s second division, various ‘dropouts’ (retirements after the draw but before the races) had left only teams Maggie W2 and Caius W2 in contention. Maggie M2’s loss to Emmanuel M2 and Caius M2’s loss to her own M3 led to two Maggie-Caius League Two finals. Despite close races, the second Caius boats won both times, denying Maggie a clean sweep.

On Friday night, in both Premier League finals, Maggie watched Jesus face off on the two-kilometre course in the setting sun. Both races went to the end with all crews showing amazing rowing skills that would have made both clubs worthy winners. However, it was Lady Margaret’s scarlet blades that triumphed in both races. The women’s team won the competition in 8 minutes and 10 seconds by just a second, and Lady Margaret’s men reached the goal posts in just 7 minutes and 5 seconds, just two seconds ahead of Jesus.

Despite these victories, Maggie’s rowers are unlikely to rest on their laurels. Hosted by Jesus, December’s Fairbairn Cup is a race where the hosts tend to dominate (they’ve won a category there every year since 2017). One thing seems pretty clear if you can dig into the infamous Cam Rowbridge Oracle: Maggie “has got to have their back.”

In the fall of 2021, August Donato, a first-year student, was expecting to be at Fordham University, where he had received a scholarship to compete on the Division I rowing team. Instead of thishe is at Ithaca College and plays on the men’s club rugby team – a sport he had never tried before being approached by the team in early autumn 2022.

Donato came out as transgender earlier this year and has been on testosterone treatment since August. His scholarship at Fordham was for the women’s rowing team, and the university does not offer a men’s team. Through NCAA RulesDonato cannot use testosterone treatment when competing on a women’s team, so he would have to choose between being on the team or being on the team open about his identity.

“It took me a while [to figure out what I wanted to do]’ said Donato. “I initially promised Fordham verbally, I even signed a contract. The contract didn’t go through, which basically saved my life because that’s what ultimately drove me to come here and actually make a medical change.”

Senior Nick Bikah, one of the rugby team’s captains, had nothing but praise for Donato. He said no matter what, Donato is just like every other member of the team.

“Everyone loves [Donato]’ Bikah said. “He’s smaller but still has the heart. Every time he gets hit, he still gets back up. He never whines about anything.”

Donato said he would have stayed at Fordham but could not afford the school without the sports scholarship. Even after he decided to go to Ithaca College, he had considered joining the men’s rowing team however, decided against it because he was so early in the transition process.

“[Rowing at the college] didn’t seem like the right environment for me,” Donato said. “Maybe I’ll go rowing again next year, I haven’t decided yet. Besides, I’m too short to row anyway.”

Transgender athletes in sports have long been a topic of discussion for the NCAA. The college had openly transgender students on varsity teams in the past and worked to be more inclusive in its policies regarding transgender athletes.

But the issue goes well beyond South Hill. In March 2022, Lia Thomas made headlines after winning the Division I national championship as a transgender athlete and sparked national debate. Athletes at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 also attracted international attention and more discussion.

Donato said it’s difficult for him to make his decision considering what he may or may not do after starting treatment, and said he doesn’t think other people need to make that decision.

“I think it’s kind of unfair,” Donato said. “Actually, I had to get out earlier than I wanted, earlier than I was ready. It was an adjustment period. But I knew if I signed a four-year contract, I wouldn’t be able to make the medical transition… and it was too difficult for me not to transition.”

Junior club president Sammy Harig said there are no rule changes or other differences at the club level when it comes to having transgender athletes on the team or in the league.

Although rugby is a physical sport, Bikah said he wants the campus community to know that anyone can get involved and he thinks players like Donato on the roster show that.

“I know there would probably be some people on the team who joined when they were [first-year students] who were uncomfortable,” Bikah said. “I think now that they see our whole club accepting everything, I feel like we’re going to get more people into it [join].”

Senior Steven Zucker, the other team captain, said head coach Annemarie Farrell plays a huge role in building the culture around the men’s team and maintaining a strong bond between all players.

“It really all depends [Farrell]; She’s doing a great job of enforcing that sense of community,” Zucker said. “And yes, rugby is a physical sport but it’s a lot of fun, especially when you get the hang of it and do it with the people you enjoy doing it with.”

Like Zucker, Donato said Farrell made an effort to make sure he felt supported on the team. Although Farrell was away for part of the semester – she serves as the team manager for the US women’s rugby World Cup team in New Zealand, which started Sept. 8 and ended Oct. 29 for Farrell with Team USA’s quarterfinal defeat — Donato said the two spoke earlier in the semester.

“[Farrell] is unbelievable,” said Donato. “She sort of pulled me off after a few practices and we talked about gender, which I’m comfortable with, things like shirts versus furs.”

Although shirts vs skins was something the team had been doing for years and is a common practice in sports, Bikah said it’s a simple switch that really doesn’t make a difference. Now athletes use pinnies or tuck in their shirts to indicate which team they are on in a scrimmage.

Acceptance within the team is mirrored by the rest of the campus, according to Donato. He said he feels like he can be himself in college, regardless of what sport he plays.

“Ithaca [College] is very open-minded,” said Donato. “It’s an open place where people can be who they want to be. … It’s a very acceptable place.”

The Ithaca College Center for LGBT Education, Outreach & Services held Events in October to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month. The college has a 5/5 star rating on the Campus Pride Index for the integration of LGBTQ+ students.

Both Zucker and Donato said there were other members of the team who identified as transgender or gender non-conforming, but they declined to mention who, out of respect for their privacy. Zucker said the main goal for the team is to provide an enjoyable experience, and being inclusive and welcoming is part of that.

“It’s all about having fun,” Zucker said. “Winning is very important, but ultimately it’s about having fun and doing it with friends.”

Harig said the group is as tight as ever and he’s happy to have Donato on the team. The team stays close together throughout the season by spending time together and engaging in non-training activities.

“We still hang out, we pretty much have all the rugby guys hanging out together every weekend,” Harig said. “Everyone is always invited, everyone is always welcome.”

Regardless of what his college future holds, Donato said he wants to make sure every transgender athlete is making the decision that’s right for them. He has made the decision to quit varsity sport, but he said that doesn’t mean everyone should do it because every situation is different.

“If a person really loves their sport, where they want to shift the medical transition to play, and that’s cool for them, they’re still as valid as someone who decides to do a new sport to medical transition,” he said Donato. “Whatever your journey is, it is valid.”

Staff writer Tess Ferguson contributed to this story.

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DEXTER, Mich. – Led by a first-place team finish for the women’s side, Michigan State’s men’s and women’s cross-country races ended the regular season on Friday afternoon at the EMU Fall Classic.

The Spartan women placed three runners in the top 10 and finished 78 points clear in second place. Junior MadisonPrice crossed the finish line fourth for the Spartans and ran a personal best 5K time of 17:55. Junior Abigail Lee and seniors Alison Ziel also ended up in the top 10 in personal bests with 18:04 (7th place) and 18:05 (8th place).

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For men in the second year Fee Killewald ran 16:02 to lead the Spartans and finished 20th. Hunter Zartmann followed in 21st place with 16:02. Killewald set his personal best while Zartman posted a personal best of over 30 seconds.

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Fairness is falling in US rowing

LAS VEGAS – The Independent Council for Women’s Sports (ICONS) seeks justice for women athletes while USRowing policy continues to quash hard-won gains for fairness in women’s sports by allowing biological males to compete in all women’s and girls’ categories.

ICONS is deeply concerned about the proposed USRowing Transgender and Gender Diverse Athlete Participation Policy. The policy, like the current one introduced in 2016, perpetuates unfair competition for female rowers and diminishes their value and opportunities, said Marshi Smith, an NCAA swimming champion and co-founder of ICONS.

“We are calling on the US Rowing Board to revise its policy to ensure equal opportunities for males and females to compete,” Smith said. “Unfortunately, many fail to recognize that they are openly discriminating against their female athletes without making the women and girls category exclusive to women, as USRowing has failed to do.”

This is the week of the world’s largest three-day rowing competition, the Head of the Charles Regatta, which begins October 21 in Boston with some 11,000 competitors in 61 events, where biological males can compete in any division in which they identify themselves. Smith said this violates the year 2022 “rowing rulesUSRowing policies dealing with fairness, which specifically state: “All rowers participating in a regatta must at all times … compete fairly.”

The proposed USRowing policy reflects the recently adopted one transgender policy of British rowing, which was met with a violent public outcry. UK rowing leader Mark Davies, who opposed her own new transgender policy, said she had brought UK rowing “in line with world rowing” by allowing natural males, who identify themselves as women, to row in the to compete in the women’s category. To support his appeal, Davies quoted a recent scientific study This shows once again that testosterone suppression does this Not Eliminate the male advantage in muscle mass, grip strength, or VO2max, even after 14 years of hormonal suppression.

“In sport, fairness must come first,” said Dr. Mary O’Connor, Director of ICONS Rowing and former US Olympic rower. “We want everyone to be able to take part in the competition. Eligibility must be based on biology, namely gender. We have age and weight categories which are also based on biology to ensure a level playing field. We must not create categories based on identities such as race, ethnicity, religion or gender identification.’ As an advocate of fair competition, Dr. O’Connor 1976 member of Yale University’s women’s rowing team, which protested athletic inequality and spearheaded the Title IX movement to combat gender discrimination in collegiate athletics.

As USRowing’s Board of Directors continues to review its transgender policy, ICONS urges USRowing to extend Davies’ Plea for World Rowingand reverse the injustice to US female athletes by protecting the women’s category for biological female athletes.

ICONS is supported by world-class athletes, parents, internationally renowned scientists, doctors and health professionals, as well as advocates, advocacy groups and women’s organizations. You can learn more about ICONS and get involved at www.iconswomen.com.

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