The rise of women's rowing

NY Times: Rowing Scholarships Available. No Experience Necessary

As an effort to satisfy Title IX legal requirements for gender equity in federally funded institutions, many colleges have added nontraditional sports for women, like rowing. It is a phenomenon particularly true of universities like Ohio State, an institution with a major football program that skews the balance of sports participation and scholarships in the men's favor.

We're all for more women's crew. We love the broad shoulders and thick, muscular build of women rowers.