The men's lightweight team will travel to Yale University on Saturday, followed by a race against Columbia University on Sunday. The men's heavyweight team will head to Massachusetts to face Boston University and Rutgers University in the Bill Cup Race.
The women's team, who does not have a home race this season for the first time since 2009, will race Syracuse University and Harvard-Radcliffe in western New York.
The fifth-ranked men's lightweight team will look to rebound after finishing second to Harvard University in the Biglin Bowl on April 13.
In 2012, the lightweight team lost only to Harvard, once in the Biglin Bowl and again at the national championships.
While racing against two different teams on consecutive days may be daunting for some, the Big Green has frequently raced against Columbia and Yale in the same weekend.
"The thing I'm most stressed about is that we have to do a weigh-in on Friday," lightweight rower Will Lynch '16 said. "Usually we can do a weigh-in here at Dartmouth, but since we're traveling we'll have to cut weight on the road."
The women, coming off a second-place finish at the Class of 1985 Cup last weekend, will look to move up in the national rankings this week.
After last week's performance, the Big Green women received several votes in the CRCA and U.S. Rowing coaches' poll, but trailed behind Princeton University, Harvard, Brown University, Yale, Columbia and Cornell University.
"We've had a slower start this season than we would like, but I think we're doing a really good job of staying positive and being really committed to putting in as much work as it takes to get as fast as we can," captain Sarah Rutter '13 said. "We're making really great strides right now, and I'm excited to see how we do this weekend."
After winning the Class of 1985 Cup last year, Dartmouth finished fourth this year, with a first varsity eight time of 6:44.9.
The Big Green have four more races before the Ivy League Championships in May.
After dropping all four races to Yale last week, the Big Green men hope to pick up a win and some momentum this weekend.
"This weekend, the best thing that can happen for team morale and for putting ourselves back on the right track would be to win," Arthur Santry '16 said.
The heavyweight team moved up three spots to 14th in the national rankings, though they still trail several Ivy League schools, including second-ranked Harvard University.
After switching up lineups for the first few weeks of the season, the Big Green will use newfound consistency to improve boat speed.
"In the next few weeks we'll be at the point where we have set lineups for all of the boats," Santry said. "Once we have that, that allows you, as a boat, to build on where you started from."
In last year's Bill Cup race, Dartmouth's first boat finished second behind BU.
"Dartmouth always gets faster as the season goes because we have the least amount of water time," Lynch said. "We always start out as the underdog, but usually Dartmouth boats get faster as the season goes."
The Big Green went on to finish 12th overall at the season-ending EARC sprints.
The heavyweight team will face Brown and Cornell before traveling to the West Coast to race against the University of Washington.
"It'd be a really strong showing if the varsity team could pull out a win," heavyweight Paul Champeau '15 said. "It's not beyond their rowing abilities as a boat or as individuals."
For all three teams, this weekend marks the halfway point of the season. The men's heavyweight and lightweight seasons conclude on May 19 at the Eastern Sprints, followed by the Intercollegiate Rowing Association's national championships on June 2.
Women's crew concludes its season with the Ivy League Championships on May 19 at Princeton.
Staff writer Josh Koenig contributed reporting.
