NCAA Rowing Championship - Prior Championships

Prior Championships

The first women’s collegiate championship was held in 1980 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. National champions were declared from the varsity eight race. California won the first collegiate championship. Below is a list of Women’s National Collegiate varsity eight champions:

• 1996 – Brown
• 1995 – Princeton
• 1994 – Princeton
• 1993 – Princeton
• 1992 – Boston University
• 1991 – Boston University
• 1990 – Princeton
• 1989 – Cornell
• 1988 – Washington
• 1987 – Washington
• 1986 – Wisconsin
• 1985 – Washington
• 1984 – Washington
• 1983 – Washington
• 1982 – Washington (AIAW champion)
• 1981 – Washington
• 1980 – California

(Source: Washington Crew Press Guide)

Prior to 1980, college boats entered the National Women’s Rowing Association National Championships (what is now the USRowing National Championships). Below is a list of NWRA open eights champions from 1971-1979 (no eights prior to 1971). The top college finisher is in parentheses:

• 1979 – Burnaby BC (top college Yale)
• 1978 – Burnaby BC (top college Wisconsin)
• 1977 – Vesper Boat Club (top college Wisconsin)
• 1976 – College Boat Club (top college Wisconsin)
• 1975 – University of Wisconsin
• 1974 – Vesper Boat Club (top college Radcliffe)
• 1973 – Radcliffe College
• 1972 – College Boat Club (top college Washington)
• 1971 – Vesper Boat Club (top college Washington)