Rowing teams win national championships

For the first time in 18 years, Wisconsin men’s rowing can call itself national champions. Wisconsin’s varsity eight defeated No. 1-ranked Washington and the rest of the field Saturday, June 7, to win the 2008 Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships for the first time since 1990. Read more »

Also on Saturday, the Wisconsin women’s lightweight rowers won the national championship — their fourth title in the last five years. Read more »

Both races were held on a 2000-meter course on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J.