Eastern Sprints
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Eastern Sprints refers to the annual rowing
College rowing (United States)
Rowing is one of the oldest intercollegiate sports in the United States. However, rowers comprise only 2.2% of total college athletes. This may be in part because of the status of rowing as an amateur sport and because not all universities have access to suitable bodies of water. In the 2002-03...

 championship for the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges
The Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges is a college athletic conference of eighteen men's college rowing crews. It is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference .-Members:...

 (EARC). Since 1974, the "Women's Eastern Sprints" has been held as the annual championship for the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges
Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges
The Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges is an American athletic conference of eighteen women's college rowing crew teams. The conference is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference .-Members:*Boston College...

 (EAWRC) league.
  • For the women's regatta
    Regatta
    A regatta is a series of boat races. The term typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft, although some powerboat race series are also called regattas...

    , see Women's Eastern Sprints
    Women's Eastern Sprints
    Women's Eastern Sprints refers to the annual rowing championship for the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges league. The teams include all of the Ivy League schools as well as others such as MIT, BU, and Wisconsin....



The Eastern College Athletic Conference
Eastern College Athletic Conference
The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 21 sports . It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina and west to Illinois...

 (ECAC) sponsors the event along with other co-sponsors.

Participants

The teams include all of the Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...

 schools as well as others such as Georgetown University
Georgetown Hoyas
Georgetown's nickname is The Hoyas, but its mascot is "Jack the Bulldog." Various breeds of dogs have been used by the sports teams as mascots since the early 1900s. Several notable bull terriers like Sergeant Stubby and "Hoya" were used at football games in the 1920s, as was a Great Dane in the...

, Syracuse University, U.S. Naval Academy
Navy Midshipmen
The United States Naval Academy sponsors 30 varsity-sports teams and 12 club-sports teams . Both men's and women's teams are called Navy Midshipmen or "Mids"...

, MIT, BU
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

, Rutgers
Rutgers Scarlet Knights
The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are the athletic teams that represent Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey...

, Northeastern, and Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

. In the fall of 2006, The George Washington University and The College of the Holy Cross were given a two year provisional bid to join the league; both schools are now full members of the league.

Since 1981, the Quinsigamond Rowing Association (QRA) has invited the winner of the Worcester City Championships to compete in the varsity eight events at the Eastern Sprints. The College of the Holy Cross has secured this invitation since 1996.

Location

The race is held at Regatta Point on Lake Quinsigamond
Lake Quinsigamond
Lake Quinsigamond is a body of water situated between the city of Worcester and the town of Shrewsbury in Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA. It is 4 miles long, between 50 and 85 feet deep, and has a surface area of approximately 772 acres . Lake Quinsigamond hosts 8 islands with the...

 in Worcester, MA in mid to late May. In general, crews compete in a trial heat in the morning, followed by a final (grand, petite, or 3rd level) in the afternoon. Each race is a 2000m race including up to six crews.

Team cups

Since 1946, the Rowe Cup has been awarded to the college whose heavyweight men's crews score the highest combined total number of points in the varsity, junior varsity, and freshman races. Harvard has won the cup the most number of times (27). Princeton comes in second with 7 wins.

Since 1961, the Jope Cup has been awarded to the college whose lightweight men's crews score the highest combined total number of points in the varsity, junior varsity, and freshman races. Harvard has won the cup 20 times. Princeton has won 14 times. The current holder is Harvard University, which won it in 2009. The U.S. Naval Academy, won it back-to-back 2006 and 2007.

Course records

New event record times were set in the 2007 edition of the regatta. Harvard now holds the record time in the Varsity Heavyweight event (5:27.005) and Dartmouth holds the Varsity Lightweight event record (5:38.894).

Overall ranking

EWLINE
Rank University Times Won
1. Harvard 26
2. Yale 6.5
3. Brown 6
4. Penn 5.5
5. Navy 5
5. Princeton 5
7. Cornell 4
8. Wisconsin 3
9. Northeastern 2
10. Dartmouth 1
10. MIT 1

Winners by year

EWLINE
Year Winner
1946 Wisconsin
1947 Harvard
1948 Harvard
1949 Harvard
1950 MIT
1951 Yale
1952 Navy
1953 Navy
1954 Navy
1955 Penn
1956 Cornell
1957 Cornell
1958 Yale
1959 Harvard
1960 Cornell
1961 Navy
1962 Penn/Yale
1963 Cornell
1964 Harvard
1965 Harvard
1966 Harvard
1967 Harvard
1968 Harvard
1969 Harvard
1970 Harvard
1971 Navy
1972 Northeastern
1973 Northeastern
1974 Harvard
1975 Harvard
1976 Harvard
1977 Harvard
1978 Yale
1979 Yale
1980 Harvard
1981 Yale
1982 Yale
1983 Harvard
1984 Brown
1985 Harvard
1986 Penn
1987 Brown
1988 Harvard
1989 Harvard
1990 Harvard
1991 Penn
1992 Dartmouth
1993 Brown
1994 Brown
1995 Princeton
1996 Penn
1997 Princeton
1998 Penn
1999 Princeton
2000 Brown
2001 Princeton
2002 Wisconsin
2003 Harvard
2004 Harvard
2005 Harvard
2006 Princeton
2007 Harvard
2008 Wisconsin
2009 Brown
2010 Harvard

Overall ranking

EWLINE
Rank University Times Won
1. Harvard 25
2. Princeton 15
3. Cornell 8.3
4. Yale 7
5. Penn 4
6. Dartmouth 3
7. Navy 1.3
7. MIT 1.3
9. Columbia 1

Winners by year

EWLINE
Year Winner
1946 Harvard
1947 Harvard
1948 Princeton
1949 Cornell
1950 Yale
1951 Penn
1952 Penn
1953 Princeton
1954 MIT
1955 Penn
1956 Princeton
1957 Princeton
1958 Harvard
1959 Harvard
1960 Harvard
1961 Harvard
1962 Cornell-MIT-Navy
1963 Cornell
1964 Cornell
1965 Cornell
1966 Harvard
1967 Cornell
1968 Harvard
1969 Harvard
1970 Harvard
1971 Harvard
1972 Harvard
1973 Princeton
1974 Harvard
1975 Harvard
1976 Penn
1977 Harvard
1978 Harvard
1979 Yale
1980 Harvard
1981 Princeton
1982 Harvard
1983 Princeton
1984 Yale
1985 Princeton
1986 Princeton
1987 Yale
1988 Harvard
1989 Harvard
1990 Yale
1991 Harvard
1992 Cornell
1993 Dartmouth
1994 Dartmouth
1995 Harvard
1996 Princeton
1997 Harvard
1998 Princeton
1999 Princeton
2000 Columbia
2001 Yale
2002 Yale
2003 Princeton
2004 Navy
2005 Harvard
2006 Cornell
2007 Dartmouth
2008 Cornell
2009 Princeton
2010 Princeton
2011 Harvard
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