Marquette University club rowing · Milwaukee, WI
Row for Marquette!
No experience necessary.
Competitive club team.
Community of 1,200+ dedicated athletes over 36 years.
Who we are
Marquette’s fastest growing club on campus
Marquette Crew is the student club rowing team at Marquette University, founded by two women athletes, Liz Shanahan and Beth Ohmann. Today, we field men’s and women’s squads, each with novice and varsity crews. We compete in shells of fours and eights both regionally and nationally.
Students join our team both with or without prior rowing experience. After one year of commitment as a novice, our athletes have the opportunity to automatically advance to varsity level.
1990
Founded by two student athletes
1,200+
Rowers through the program in 36 years
Fastest-growing
club sport on Marquette’s campus
Everyone starts somewhere
No tryouts. No cuts. No experience required.
We do not recruit high-school rowers and do not hold tryouts. If you are an enrolled Marquette student, are looking for camraderie then we are the team for you.
Novices learn the stroke from scratch in their first season, and plenty of them are racing varsity boats a year later. The only required is a willingness to learn.
Welcome events · Fall 2026
Get started this fall
Come to any one of these — no signup needed for O-Fest, and Learn to Row is for anyone to check out if rowing is for them in a no-pressure environment.
Sept 5, 6 & 12
Learn to Row
Get in a boat with varsity rowers and take your first strokes. Three sessions — come to whichever fits.
Sept 10
O-Fest
Find our table, meet the team, and sign up to come learn more at Learn to Row.
Sept 13
Team Meeting
The season kickoff — schedules, squads, and what your first weeks will look like.
down by the water
two rivers, one lake
Home base is the boathouse on the Menomonee River. Most mornings we’re there headed to the Milwaukee River downtown — and when conditions are right, we head to Lake Michigan.
In winter the whole team moves indoors to the erg room in Humphrey Hall, where the Spring season is built one interval at a time.
Life on the team
Bonding beyond the boat
Team dinners, Thanksgiving together, Winter Formals, Intramural Volleyball — we’re not just teammates, many lifelong friendships have started with first being on Crew.
On and off the water
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Ready to row?
Your seat in the boat is open.
No tryouts, no cuts, no experience required. We look forward to meeting you!
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