For many Penn lightweight rowers, this Saturday’s meeting against Marietta on the Schuylkill is just a tune-up to prepare for the cup season. But for coach Nick Baker, it has special meaning.

In a sport as mentally demanding as rowing, confidence is key. Coming off two big wins against Georgetown and Duke last weekend, the women’s rowing team kept their spirits high.

After a three-year drought, the Quakers beat George Washington Saturday on the Potomac River and took back the McCausland Cup.

Imagine staring at a clock for 40 minutes as it counts down, second by second, teasing you while you physically exert yourself to the brink of exhaustion.

This weekend, in the hustle and bustle of Homecoming, the Penn men’s and women’s crew teams will each launch several boats in the 40th annual Head of the Schuylkill Regatta.

A winner of one varsity and five junior varsity national championships during his time as a Penn rowing coach, Ted A. Nash now offers a 66-mile challenge to the Quakers heavyweight rowing team.

Penn rowing’s twin stars, Elizabeth and Rebecca Donald, will return home from their trip to Belarus with some bronze to show for it.

Penn women’s rowing’s dynamic duo is getting set to hit the international stage.

A momentous season ended in bittersweet fashion for both Penn men’s rowing teams Saturday.

For the third straight season, the Penn men’s heavyweight rowing team will enter the IRA Championships with a fresh taste of defeat.

With exams over, the crews have the luxury of more sleep, which can only help the Quakers as they head into Sunday’s Eastern Sprints Championships.

Stuart Milne takes a crash course in the life of a Quakers coxswain but his only experience with rowing is watching Great Britain win Olympic gold in Athens six years ago.

The men’s lightweight and women’s crews took to Princeton’s Lake Carnegie with the aim of upsetting the respective No. 1 and No. 2 Tigers. But Princeton was up to the task, emerging victorious in both contests.

The Quakers placed third in the race for the Blackwell Cup, dropping all but one of their races — the Novice 8 — to two top-ranked opponents.

While all three rowing teams are in action this weekend in Ivy competition, the men’s heavyweight squad knows better than the rest what to expect from its conference opponent.

It might come as a surprise to some as they watch the Penn men’s rowing teams that most bellowing instructions out on the water come from females.

The Quakers were 0.5 seconds short of victory over Cornell Saturday afternoon.