All-Girls · City Island · New York
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Small by design.
Fast on purpose.
A close-knit, all-girls rowing club where everybody knows everyone's name — and the results speak for themselves.
A close-knit, all-girls rowing club where everybody knows everyone's name — and the results speak for themselves.
This winter our erg room captures every stroke of every workout, files it in each athlete's own logbook, and turns her winter into goals, targets and progress she can see. No phones on the erg, nothing to type, nothing to remember.
Sister groups, mixed boats, alumnae who come back — and every senior knowing every new rower's name within her first week. None of it works at 200 athletes. That's not a limitation. It's the mechanism. And it produces girls who row in college, stay healthy, and love the sport.
Twelve hours, spent well — and regionally and nationally competitive.Because high school athletes need time for academics, family, recovery, and other interests.That's the standard, and that's the strategy.
"Nobody else in New York gets to warm up like this."
This winter our erg room becomes a smart room. It captures every stroke of every workout, files it in each athlete's own logbook, and turns her winter into goals, targets and progress she can see.
Every erg, every bike and every heart-rate monitor in the room is captured. No phones on the erg, nothing to type, nothing to remember.
A private link for every athlete, shared with her parents, with a written report every Saturday and a report card at mid-season.
She sets her goals for the winter's tests, and on test day her monitor gives her a pace boat to race.
Our own team board, where athletes post their workouts and cheer each other on.
Thirteen weeks indoors, every stroke on record. Fall racing wraps up with the Halloween Throwdown on 10/31 and the PITY Cup on 11/8.
Families here plan far ahead — so here is the entire 2026–27 rowing year, in one place, now.
*Youth Nationals: qualified crews only — top four at States. Canadian Henley eligibility requires training through July.
A closer look at every season Regatta guide for families
Spring is championship season. An athlete who travels during it hurts her crew's ability to train and perform — so plan holidays for Thanksgiving, the winter holiday break, and the second half of February break. And an honest tip from the coach: summer is the best rowing of the year, and ironically the season most people skip. Row July. Travel in August.
Racing and standardized testing can coexist — it just takes the calendar you're looking at. SAT and ACT dates this year: Sep 19 (ACT), Oct 3 (SAT), Oct 17 (ACT — Head of the Charles weekend for the 1V8+), Nov 7 (SAT), Dec 5 (SAT), Dec 12 (ACT), Feb 27 (ACT), Mar 6 (SAT), Apr 10 (ACT), May 1 (SAT), and Jun 5 / Jun 12 (SAT / ACT — Nationals window). And a quiet mercy of the modern calendar: most regattas that fall on a test weekend now run on the Sunday, so true conflicts are rarer than they used to be.
The official Boathouse team shop opens Tuesday 9/1 and closes 9/5 — it will not reopen until the end of winter, so order the splash jacket (it's navy, whatever the photo suggests) plus leggings and long sleeve now. Racing uni orders also close 9/5. Everyday CIR merch is available year-round on SquadLocker — and every ordering link lives on the Fall Master Spreadsheet, emailed to families.
Long Island Sound, the Hutchinson River, long rows to the Throggs Neck Bridge — and a boathouse on an island in New York City.
Rowing worldwide is moving from experience-based labels — novice, JV, varsity — to age-based classification, and City Island Rowing is embracing it. Under the old system, a girl who started in 7th grade was, by 9th, lining up against seniors — a ninth-grader still waiting on her growth spurt, racing fully grown women. That was never fair. Now every athlete trains with her own age group and races the field she belongs in.
Where rowers are made. Skills, watermanship, and racing from the first season — whether she's rowed a week or three years.
Inside U16 →
The bridge year. Bigger engines, sharper technique — and for athletes on trajectory, invitations to train and race up.
Inside U17 →
The 1V and 2V. The most volume, the fastest boats, the biggest races — the pinnacle of the high-school rowing experience.
Inside U19 →Movement between squads is fluid and earned — ability, mindset, physicality, and trajectory against proven metrics. High-performing U17 athletes are already training in the U19 block, and an athlete can race a U17 and a U19 event at the same regatta. The pathway is stated out loud, because that's what makes it a program rather than a favor.
Rowing is an incredibly expensive sport, and we strive to make sure that our athletes have the training and race equipment they need to be regionally and nationally competitive.
100% of your donation goes to our Capital Equipment Fund, and as a 501(c)(3), all donations are fully tax deductible. We would be so grateful for your support.
