Report: Inflated Rowing Rosters Boost Football Schools

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An analysis of college athletic participation by the Omaha World-Herald seems to indicate that many big-time college football programs are sporting inflated women’s rowing rosters to help them maintain compliance with Title IX. 

Schools such as perennial football powerhouses Alabama and Clemson each fielded triple-digit rosters for women’s rowing — 120 at Alabama and 104 at Clemson. The World-Herald identified other programs with rosters of similar sizes; Michigan had 132 women’s rowers, Ohio State had 110, Texas had 101, Oklahoma had 93, Iowa had 91 and the University of Wisconsin had a roster of 176 women’s rowers in 2018. 

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