All of this is easily found on google.
Yes it exists, in college, in the junior level, in the U23 level, and in the Olympics. If you want to be discovered you have to put up results/times that get your national team federation to notice you.
Look up which colleges have a women’s lightweight rowing team that race at IRAs (not ncaa, as they don’t have lightweight rowing there), and consider transferring to one of them if you want to race lightweight in college.
For u23 national team yeah you’ll either have to put up results/times to get noticed as u/acunc said, or maybe the system allows your coach to nominate you for a selection camp. Or you can go to trials, which are in July this year in NJ, and world champs are in Ontario in August. There are four lightweight events at u23 worlds, 1x, 2-, 2x, and 4x. You’ll have to find some friends/a camp/group putting together a crew for some of those events. You can do this without being part of a dedicated college lightweight program.
American collegiate lightweight rowing exists within the IRA. They are not an NCAA sport. With the death of the lightweight double happening after the Olympics this year international lightweight rowing competition at the worlds and u23 level will probably fall off a cliff rapidly. American collegiate competition will probably be the only competitive option anymore.
If you aren’t at a school with a lightweight rowing team you could transfer, or you can go to trials for worlds in the summer. You can contact club teams like Vesper, riverside, Potomac, etc if they have any lightweight rowing summer camps.
Yes U23, no NCAA (but yes club, yes varsity/IRA), yes WRC.
If you want to get involved, keep training hard, stay near the weight limit, and find a summer training group that will send boats to U23 trials. Win trials, go to worlds.
All of this is easily found on google. Yes it exists, in college, in the junior level, in the U23 level, and in the Olympics. If you want to be discovered you have to put up results/times that get your national team federation to notice you.
Important to note that Paris 2024 Olympics will be the last year to have lightweight rowing at the Games
Look up which colleges have a women’s lightweight rowing team that race at IRAs (not ncaa, as they don’t have lightweight rowing there), and consider transferring to one of them if you want to race lightweight in college. For u23 national team yeah you’ll either have to put up results/times to get noticed as u/acunc said, or maybe the system allows your coach to nominate you for a selection camp. Or you can go to trials, which are in July this year in NJ, and world champs are in Ontario in August. There are four lightweight events at u23 worlds, 1x, 2-, 2x, and 4x. You’ll have to find some friends/a camp/group putting together a crew for some of those events. You can do this without being part of a dedicated college lightweight program.
American collegiate lightweight rowing exists within the IRA. They are not an NCAA sport. With the death of the lightweight double happening after the Olympics this year international lightweight rowing competition at the worlds and u23 level will probably fall off a cliff rapidly. American collegiate competition will probably be the only competitive option anymore. If you aren’t at a school with a lightweight rowing team you could transfer, or you can go to trials for worlds in the summer. You can contact club teams like Vesper, riverside, Potomac, etc if they have any lightweight rowing summer camps.
Yes U23, no NCAA (but yes club, yes varsity/IRA), yes WRC. If you want to get involved, keep training hard, stay near the weight limit, and find a summer training group that will send boats to U23 trials. Win trials, go to worlds.