2000 meters adding “youth” events and the enormous size of the regatta and the number of heats and finals due to growing participation) between “club” and “single school” programs caused the Association to separate into two organizations in the fall of 2000. Continuing conflict (racing “youth” and “varsity” crews together or separately 1500 meters vs.
There were 52 schools and clubs racing in 44 final events at the 2000 Championship. The Association even included crews from Kansas and Tennessee for a while. The number of participating programs has continued to grow and the Association came to include crews from 12 states. The regatta grew into a two day format of heats and finals by its second year in 1985. Ten schools and two clubs attended the first regatta and competed in fourteen events for boys (1500 meters) and seven events, three with a single entry, for girls (1000 meters). The first Midwest Scholastic Championship Regatta was held in Culver, Indiana and was hosted by Culver Academies on May 12, 1984. Second, to organize Midwest scholastic/junior regatta scheduling and information exchange. The Midwest Scholastic Rowing Association was organized in the fall of 1983 with two purposes:įirst, to sponsor a Midwest scholastic championship regatta each spring. Paul) many more were established (Wheeling and Parkersburg, WV and Marietta, OH) the Central States Schoolboy Championship disappeared. As a few high school rowing programs ceased to exist (those rowing from Lincoln Park BC in Chicago, St.
Racing during that time often included competing against adult clubs and college freshmen, due to the limited number of high school aged competition. John’s Military Academy (WI), Culver Academies (IN), along with Ecorse BC and Roosevelt HS from Detroit. The Central States Schoolboy Championship included high schools from Chicago (no longer rowing: Lane Tech, Weber), South St. History History of the Midwest Scholastic Rowing Championshipīefore the Midwest Scholastic Rowing Association was formed, there existed a Central States Schoolboy Championship (there were no high school girls competing in the region at that time) beginning in the late 1950s, and active in the 1960s through about 1978.
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