Sportform
- Roving reporter Jennifer Gillan, BA ’07, offers a quick take on athletics at UB
- Bulls’ football to play at Penn State in 2007
- Morris gift creates new Sports Performance Center
- No Bull: Sports Lingo Explained
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No Bull: sports lingo explained
Rowing: the rules of regatta
In rowing—or crew, as everyone calls it—athletes compete in long, slender, ultra-lightweight boats called shells. Collegiate crew races are usually the international-standard length of 2000 meters (about 1.25 miles). A crew race between Harvard and Yale in 1852 is considered the first intercollegiate sports event in the U.S. UB’s varsity women’s crew races in two kinds of boats—eight-oared and four-oared; types of boat are never mixed in the same race. Crews compete at different levels: varsity, second varsity (also called the first and second boat), novice (defined by the rowers’ experience) and lightweight (no one in the boat can weigh more than 130 pounds). —Jud Mead