LSU Rowing is a collegiate sports team dedicated to train rowers to race across the nation. We compete in 3 races in the fall semester and 4 to 5 races in the spring semester. We attend both the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association (SIRA) Championships and the American Collegiate Rowing Association (ACRA) National Championship, racing against some of the best rowing programs across the country including Texas, Clemson, Michigan, Virginia, and many more. Our goal for our program is to push our athletes to be competitive in all the races we attend and to bring back successful results back to Louisiana State University.

The story of LSU Rowing begins in in 1933. Four separate donors gifted LSU a swath of tupelo cypress swamp near campus. The donors had a stipulation: LSU was to turn the swamps into lakes and parks for public use, and keep them so forever.

A handful of students saw an opportunity and founded the rowing team in the 1980s with plans to use the lake. Unfortunately, nature fought back and in the early 1980s, local government slowed the return to swampland by having University Lake dredged. After a long hiatus, the team was finally reestablished in 2004 and has now been continuously run for almost two decades.