National Collegiate Rowing Championship

The now defunct National Collegiate Rowing Championship, often simply called the "Cincinnati Regatta," was a quasi-official national championship for men's and women's collegiate rowing, held in Cincinnati, Ohio, between 1982 and 1996. It pitted the winners of the Eastern Sprints, the Pac-10s, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Championship and other crews invited at-large. The invited crews usually included Eastern Sprints and Pac-10 medalists, and always Harvard and Yale, or both if both medaled at the Eastern Sprints.

The regatta was necessitated by the fact that Harvard and Yale did not regularly attend the IRA Championship before 2003, because the IRA championship was scheduled before the Harvard–Yale Regatta, which Harvard and Yale considered more important than the IRA Championship. The Cincinnati Regatta was created to avoid dispute over the championship due to Harvard and Yale's absence. With the creation of the NCAA Rowing Championship for women in 1997, the Cincinnati Regatta dissolved. Seven years later, Harvard and Yale returned to the IRA, and it became the de facto rowing championship regatta for men and lightweight women, while the NCAA championship holds this status for openweight women.[1]

The winners of the Cincinnati Regatta were as follows:

• 1996 Princeton University
• 1995 Brown University
• 1994 Brown University
• 1993 Brown University
• 1992 Harvard University
• 1991 University of Pennsylvania
• 1990 University of Wisconsin–Madison
• 1989 Harvard University
• 1988 Harvard University
• 1987 Harvard University
• 1986 University of Wisconsin–Madison
• 1985 Harvard University
• 1984 University of Washington
• 1983 Harvard University
• 1982 Yale University[2]