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The '''Men's Heavyweight Rowing Team''' is one of three [[crew]] teams at Columbia.

== Season ==
The Heavyweight crew season is divided between fall appearances by the varsity crew at the Head of the Charles Regatta (at [[Harvard]]) and the [[Princeton]] Chase, and the freshman crew at the Head of the Schuylkill (at [[Penn]]) and Belly of the Carnegie (at Princeton),  followed by Cup Season in the spring where it takes part in a series of regattas, followed by the Eastern Sprints and IRA National Championships.

== Performance ==
The [[2008]] Men's Heavyweight team set a record by winning the first Blackwell Cup in 67 years and the first Maxwell Stevenson Cup in 45 years, achieving the feat in a single weekend.<ref>[http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2008/04/25/record-setting-cu-heavyweight-rowing-leads-fellow-teams-weekend Record-Setting CU Heavyweight Rowing Leads Fellow Teams into Weekend], Columbia Spectator, 25 April 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=1443761 Heavyweights Win Blackwell Cup for First Time in 67 Years], Columbia University Athletics News, 19 April 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.rowinghistory.net/trophies.htm] This ones user generated and thus a little suspect. I've only put recently contested cups</ref>

=== Cups ===
*Collins Cup (Columbia vs. [[Rutgers]]):
*Alumni Cup (Columbia vs. [[MIT]]):
*Childs Cup (Columbia vs. Princeton vs. Penn)
*Blackwell Cup (Columbia vs. [[Yale]] vs. Penn): [[1941]], 2008, [[2009]]
*Maxwell Stevenson Cup (Mens Heavyweight Columbia vs. [[Navy]]): [[1963]], 2008, 2009, [[2010]]
*Doc Lusins Trophy (Winner of Columbia vs. [[Boston University]] at Regatta with [[Syracuse]]): 2010

== References ==
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[[Category:Men's varsity sports teams]]