Find the people you rowed with, catch up on what the program is doing, and help the next boats get faster. This is the home for everyone who has pulled a burgundy blade on the Hudson.
Vassar Rowing alumni coming together to strengthen the team for the long row. The work, like a shell, is lighter with “All Hands On”: Stay connected; Attend the Annual Alum Rowing Regatta; Give on #Give2Brew, the Athletics Day of Giving; & Build an Endowment that supports the VC Rowing legacy.
Alumnae, alumni and the current team on the water together at the boathouse for a full weekend. Rooms at the Alumnae House and the Heartwood Inn will open for reservations soon.
The 2026 Athletics Day of Giving: 730 people gave $63,284 to Vassar Rowing, the most donors of any Vassar team and 80% more than last year.
If your class is back on campus, we'll try to get a boat out. Tell us you're coming through the update form below.
Two years in, the alumni regatta has become the weekend the whole program comes home to the boathouse: alumni across the decades, the current team, ergs on the apron, and a lot of stories. Each year has its own page. Next up: September 17–19, 2027.
Stories and photos from 2025 and 2026Every gift goes through Vassar. Gifts to rowing add to what the College already does for the program; they never replace it.
Every October, for 29 hours. In 2026, 730 of us gave to rowing, up from 405 the year before. Next October we start from 730.
Every year of #Give2BrewAny day of the year, a gift designated to rowing goes straight to the program through Vassar's online giving page.
Give to rowing nowA permanent endowed fund at Vassar. The annual draw funds additional coaching for the program. Multi-year pledges are welcome. Details and the giving link are coming.
Questions about a gift, a pledge, or giving stock or from a donor-advised fund? Vassar's Advancement office handles all of it, and we'll connect you.
Men's and women's squads train out of the boathouse on the Hudson and race a fall head-race season and a spring sprint season. The team is coached by Peter Wells.
Enter your class year. Your class opens first; the classes on either side of it, the people you shared launches, ergs, and long bus rides with, sit just below. Tap a class to open or close it.
Listing shows name, class year, and squad and side where we know them. No contact details are ever published here.
Not on the list, or something's wrong? Names, class years, and sides come from an old spreadsheet and the current team roster, so there are gaps. Tell us and we'll fix it.
Send an updateEvery class year will get its own album. Send what you have, especially the blurry ones from the nineties.
Vassar students founded a rowing club in 1866, and a College poster calls rowing Vassar's first sport. The modern program began on the Hudson in 1983 with one coach, two old wooden shells, and a handful of students.
The water they chose was already famous. From 1895 to 1949 this stretch of the Hudson hosted the Poughkeepsie Regatta, the national championship of American rowing, with an observation train along the shore and crowds in the tens of thousands. In 1936 the University of Washington swept the regatta here on its way to Olympic gold in Berlin, the story told in The Boys in the Boat.
The effort is run by alumni volunteers working alongside Vassar Athletics and Advancement. A small board sets direction; committees do the work. Every committee has a chair, a student representative, and someone whose whole job is to keep it moving.
Hover over a committee (or tap it) to see what it does and who is on it.
Pick one or several. Cohort captains for each decade are the most useful volunteers we have, so say so if that's you.
Two minutes. This is how the roster gets better and how you hear about the regatta. Parents, family, friends of the program, and neighbors on the river are welcome here too: tell us who you are and which rower connects you.