Women's Eastern Sprints refers to the annual rowing

College rowing (United States)

Rowing is one of the oldest intercollegiate sports in the United States. However, rowers comprise only 2.2% of total college athletes. This may be in part because of the status of rowing as an amateur sport and because not all universities have access to suitable bodies of water. In the 2002-03...

 championship for the Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges

Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges

The Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges is an American athletic conference of eighteen women's college rowing crew teams. The conference is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference .-Members:*Boston College...

 (EAWRC) league. The teams include all of the Ivy League

Ivy League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...

 schools as well as others such as MIT, BU

Boston University

Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...

, and Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

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The race is held on the Cooper River in Camden, New Jersey

Camden, New Jersey

The city of Camden is the county seat of Camden County, New Jersey. It is located across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city had a total population of 77,344...

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EAWRC Varsity Openweight 8 Winners

EWLINE Year Winner 1974 Radcliffe 1975 Radcliffe 1976 Wisconsin 1977 Yale 1978 Finals Cancelled 1979 Yale 1980 Penn 1981 Yale 1982 Princeton 1983 BU 1984 Wisconsin 1985 Princeton 1986 Wisconsin 1987 Radcliffe 1988 Brown 1989 Radcliffe 1990 Princeton 1991 BU 1992 BU 1993 Princeton 1994 Princeton 1995 Princeton 1996 Brown 1997 Princeton 1998 Brown 1999 Brown 2000 Brown 2001 Princeton 2002 Brown 2003 Radcliffe 2004 Princeton 2005 Yale 2006 Princeton 2007 Yale 2008 Brown

EAWRC Varsity Lightweight 8 Winners

2011 - Princeton

2010 - Wisconsin

2009 - Wisconsin

2008 - Wisconsin

2007- Wisconsin

2006- Wisconsin

2005- Wisconsin

2004- Radcliffe

2003- Princeton

2002- Princeton

2001- Wisconsin

2000- Princeton

1999- Princeton

1998- Princeton

1997- Radcliffe

1996- Radcliffe

1994- Radcliffe

1993- Radcliffe

1990- Radcliffe

1989- Rochester

1987- Radcliffe

1985- Radcliffe

1984- Radcliffe

1983- Smith

1981- MIT

1980- Radcliffe

1979- Boston University

1977- Radcliffe

1976- Boston University