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The recently expanded—and heavily fortified—Atlantic Coast Conference kicks off its 2025 rowing season Saturday and Sunday with four member schools racing at the 13th annual Oak Ridge Cardinal Invitational on Melton Lake, in Oak Ridge, Tenn., March 15-16.
Duke, Louisville, North Carolina, and Duke will race in Oak Ridge.
As part of the rearrangement of college sports conferences, the ACC voted in 2023 to add Stanford, Cal, and SMU—all among the top NCAA Division I women’s rowing programs—effective July 1, 2024, making this spring the first rowing season for the new-look conference.
No. 2 Stanford and No. 8 Cal now represent the ACC in the top 10 of the first Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll. Defending ACC champion Syracuse (No. 10), Virginia (No. 12), Duke (No. 16), and Norte Dame (No. 18) bring the ACC’s top-20 total to six schools. Only the Ivy League, with seven of its eight member schools in the top 25, has more nationally-ranked programs at the start of the season.
Notre Dame and Cal are scheduled to race at the San Diego Crew Classic, March 29-20. The ACC’s Duke, Notre Dame, SMU, and Clemson will race in the Big Ten Invitational in Sarasota, Fla. April 18-19. The ACC Rowing Championship returns to Lake Hartwell in Clemson, South Carolina May 16-17, followed by the NCAA Rowing Championships, May 30 – June 1 on Mercer Lake in New Jersey, for programs that qualify.
