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    Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll – Week 7, May 1

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    Image courtesy of the CRCA.

    After an eventful Longhorn Invite, Texas now sits atop the DI Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll. Ohio State also made a significant move from 14th to 12th after defeating Virginia at the same event. Alabama makes their first appearance on the polls this week, coming in at 18th on the strength of their performance at the Lake Wheeler Invite.

    The DII polls saw the biggest shakeups, with Western Washington catapulting from sixth to first after winning both the varsity and second varsity eights at the WIRA Championships. Seattle Pacific also made a big move from fifth to third as a result of their performance at WIRAs.

    The DIII polls remained mostly stable as crews begin to enter their championship season. St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Smith each won their respective conference championships this past weekend and have earned the first two AQ bids for the 2024 NCAA Championships.

    Division 1
    Rank Team Points Previous Ranking
    1 University of Texas 2614 2
    2 Stanford University 2528 1
    3 Princeton University 2308 3
    4 University of California, Berkeley 2201 4
    5 University of Tennessee 2133 5
    6 Yale University 2005 6
    7 Brown University 1953 7
    8 University of Washington 1780 8
    9 University of Michigan 1593 9
    10 Syracuse University 1542 10
    11 University of Pennsylvania 1362 11
    12 The Ohio State University 1265 14
    13 Rutgers University 1154 13
    14 Duke University 1086 16
    15 Indiana University 1078 15
    16 University of Virginia 961 12
    17 Washington State University 433 18
    18 University of Alabama 305 NR
    19 Columbia University 284 19
    20 Harvard-Radcliffe 281 20
    ORV Gonzaga University 255
    ORV University of Southern California 160
    ORV University of Central Florida 147
    ORV University of California, Los Angeles 146
    ORV University of Miami 134
    ORV Oregon State University 109
    ORV University of Minnesota 93
    ORV University of Notre Dame 69
    ORV University of Iowa 18
    Division 2
    Rank Team Points Previous Ranking
    1 Western Washington University 158 6
    2 University of Central Oklahoma 152 1
    3 Seattle Pacific University 132 5
    4 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 127 2
    5 Cal Poly Humboldt 109 3
    6 Mercyhurst University 74 4
    7 University of Tampa 60 NR
    8 Rollins College 52 7
    ORV Thomas Jefferson University 17
    ORV Barry University 14
    Division 3
    Rank Team Points Previous Ranking
    1 Tufts University 732 1
    2 Trinity College 672 2
    3 Williams College 629 3
    4 Wesleyan University 610 4
    5 Bates College 561 5
    6 Ithaca College 458 6
    7 Hamilton College 410 7
    8 Smith College 408 9
    9 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 382 8
    10 Wellesley College 369 10
    11 US Coast Guard Academy 219 12
    12 Clark University 176 11
    13 William Smith College 146 13
    14 Rochester Institute of Technology 87 15
    15 University of Puget Sound 56 14
    ORV Lewis & Clark College 36
    ORV St. Mary’s College of Maryland 30

    St. Mary’s Women’s Rowing Win’s MARC Championships, Earn NCAA Championships Berth

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    West Windsor, NJ– The St. Mary’s Women’s Rowing Team competed in the MARC Championships. The Seahawks took first and earned a spot in the NCAA Championships.

    How it Happened:

    • The Women’s Varsity 8 squad finished second in the first heat with a time of 7:18, just behind Bryn Mawr.

    • The Women’s Second Varsity 8 team earned first in their heat with a time of 7:25. The Women’s Third Varsity 8 crew earned third in that same race with a time of 7:45.

    • The Women’s Varsity 8 squad earned first place in the final race to capture the MARC Championship. The Seahawks crossed the finish line at the 7:04 mark, edging Bryn Mawr by three seconds.

    • Nik Meyer was named MARC Women’s Rowing Coach of the Year.

    Lineups:

    Women’s Varsity 8

    Women’s Second Varsity 8

    Women’s Third Varsity 8

    Up Next:

    • May 10 | Dad Vail Regatta | Pennsauken, NJ

    Smith Claims 2024 NEWMAC Rowing Championship

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    WORCESTER – Smith won three of four races and tallied 42 points to claim the 2024 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Rowing Championship Saturday morning at Lake Quinsigamond. Smith edged WPI by a single point to claim its 10th overall team championship and earn the NEWMAC’s automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division III Championship at East Fork/Harsha Lake on Bethel, OH on May 31st and June 1st.  It will be the Pioneers first appearance at the NCAA Championships in 14 years.

    WPI (7:09.70) led wire-to-wire in the varsity eight en route to winning the V8 for just the second time in program history and first time since 2019. Smith (7:11.38) surged ahead of Wellesley (7:11.84) over the final 250 meters to take second. The 0.46 margin of victory proved to be the difference in determining the conference’s automatic qualifier, which is comprised of the varsity eight and the second varsity eight.  Coast Guard (7:17.66) was fourth followed up Clark (7:27.54), Mount Holyoke (7:38.51) and Simmons (8:17.49).

    In the second varsity eight, Wellesley jumped out to a quick lead but Smith (7:24.40) took it to another gear just past the Donahue Rowing Center to reach the finish line over second ahead of the Blue (7:31.74).  WPI (7:37.65) broke away late from Coast Guard (7:37.65) to take third while Clark (7:48.43) was fifth and Mount Holyoke sixth (8:01.18).

    Smith also won the final two races of the morning.  In the third varsity eight, the Pioneers (7:36.42) reached the final buoys ahead of Wellesley (7:40.20), WPI (7:52.7), Coast Guard (7:57.16) and Clark (8:40.78) while in the fourth varsity eight the Pioneers reached Regatta Point in 7:46.0 followed by Wellesley (7:55.91) and Coast Guard (8:11.41).

    The Pioneers also took the Florence Jope Smith Cup, awarded annually to the school with the highest number of points from the overall results at the event. Smith, which won for the ninth time and first time since 2010, finished first with 40 points followed by Wellesley with 32 points and WPI with 20. Coast Guard (20), Clark (12), Mount Holyoke (6), and Simmons (2) rounded out the final standings.

    Smith’s Linnea Schultz (Woodinville, Wash./Woodinville) was voted as the conference’s Rower of the Year while teammate Sofia Trotta (Guilford, Conn./The Gunnery) and WPI’s Emily Howard shared Coxswain of the Year accolades.

    Joining Schultz, Trotta and Howard on the All-Conference first team were WPI’s Maggie Kirwan, Jules Prisco, Megan Tupaj, Anya Hanitchak, Kaylee Liu of Wellesley and Megan Holm (Flagstaff, AZ/BASIS Flagstaff) and Anna Boden (Seattle, WA/Holy Names Academy) of Smith.

    Up Next
    Smith turns their attention to next week’s New England Championships, which is Saturday, May 4 on Lake Quinsigamond.

    Varsity Eight
    1. WPI – 7:09.70
    2. Smith – 7:11.38
    3. Wellesley – 7:11.84
    4. Coast Guard – 7:17.66
    5. Clark – 7:27.54
    6. Mount Holyoke – 7:38.51
    7. Simmons – 8:17.49

    Second Varsity Eight
    1. Smith – 7:24.40
    2. Wellesley – 7:31.74
    3. WPI – 7:35.48
    4. Coast Guard – 7:37.65
    5. Clark – 7:48.43
    6. Mount Holyoke – 8:01.18

    Third Varsity Eight
    1. Smith – 7:36.42
    2. Wellesley – 7:40.20
    3. WPI – 7:52.7
    4. Coast Guard – 7:57.16
    5. Clark – 8:40.78

    Fourth Varsity Eight
    1. Smith – 7:46.0
    2. Wellesley – 7:55.91
    3. Coast Guard – 8:11.41

    NEWMAC Championship AQ Standings
    1. Smith – 42
    2. WPI – 41
    3. Wellesley – 37
    4. Coast Guard – 30
    5. Clark – 25
    6. Mount Holyoke – 20
    7. Simmons – 15

    Florence Jope Smith Cup Standings
    1. Smith – 40
    2. Wellesley – 32
    3. WPI – 28
    4. Coast Guard – 20
    5. Clark – 12
    6. Mount Holyoke – 6
    7. Simmons – 2

    About Smith Athletics: Smith College is a NCAA Division III member of the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference that sponsors 11 intercollegiate sports. For more information log on to smithpioneers.com and follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

    The Importance of Being Neutral

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    Madeline Davis Tully
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    Photo by Peter Spurrier.

    A priority of any coach or program should be to cultivate a welcoming environment. Rowing ought to be a sport where people of all kinds can find a seat in the boat as long as they want to do the work.

    It has become common for all sorts of organizations and institutions to “take a stand” on any number of issues—from the murder of George Floyd to the Israel-Hamas war. Text-only Instagram posts and statements on websites declare where a company, university, or sports team stands on the matter. This includes rowing teams and boathouses.

    No matter how well intended, this practice excludes inherently those who oppose the position. The righteousness of the stance aside, it also creates the expectation that once an organization comments on one issue it must comment on all, lest silence be misconstrued as acquiescence.

    It’s time for those of us in positions of power to explore how to create a place for open, respectful inquiry while fostering in our athletes a sense of self.

    In 1967, against the backdrop of student protests against the Vietnam War, the University of Chicago adopted a policy of “institutional neutrality” that was formalized in the Kalven Report. The product of a faculty committee led by First Amendment scholar Henry Kalven, it states:

    “The mission of the university is the discovery, improvement, and dissemination of knowledge. . . . To perform its mission in the society, a university must sustain an extraordinary environment of freedom of inquiry and maintain an independence from political fashions, passions, and pressures. . . . A university, if it is to be true to its faith in intellectual inquiry, must embrace, be hospitable to, and encourage the widest diversity of views within its own community.”

    Stanford, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina have adopted similar policies, and faculty groups at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania are pushing their administrations to follow suit.

    This is not a perfect solution, and institutional neutrality has its limits. Not all beliefs and opinions can be entertained while maintaining an environment that is safe and respectful. A university can refrain from releasing statements on racist acts across the country and still oppose racism vigorously on its own campus.

    Neutrality does not mean apathy or indifference. Rowers are also citizens and members of society. What goes on outside the boathouse is our business, too, and can affect the way we think, feel, and even perform on the water.

    This isn’t to say that individual team members and even coaches should refrain from expressing their personal views. Quite the contrary. By remaining neutral as a team, the stage is set for an honest exchange of ideas and perspectives among  members.

    As leaders within the sport of rowing who guide young people through their formative years, we have an obligation to help them find their voices and build their own belief systems, not parrot our own. 

    ACRA Poll: April 30

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    Story and graphic courtesy of ACRA.
    Men’s ACRA Varsity Eight
    Rank Team (First Place Votes) Points
    1 University of Virginia (8) 116
    2 University of Notre Dame (1) 104
    3 University of California, Los Angeles (2) 93
    4 University of Minnesota (1) 86
    5 Rutgers University 58
    6 University of Michigan 57
    7 Orange Coast College 49
    8 George Washington University 43
    T – 9 Purdue University 25
    T – 9 Bucknell University 25
    Other: Washington State (3), Grand Valley State (1)
    Men’s ACRA Freshman/Novice Eight
    Rank Team (First Place Votes) Points
    1 Purdue University (6) 83
    2 Orange Coast College 82
    3 University of Virginia 66
    4 University of Minnesota 59
    T – 5 University of Michigan 48
    T – 5 Bucknell University 48
    7 University of California, Davis 34
    8 University of California, Los Angeles 29
    9 Rutgers University 15
    10 University of Southern California 11
    Others: Northwestern (10), Washington St (6), Florida (3), West Point (3)
    Women’s ACRA Varsity Eight
    Rank Team (First Place Votes) Points
    1 Vanderbilt (6) 86
    2 Purdue University 71
    3 Clemson University (2) 64
    4 University of Rhode Island (1) 54
    5 Bowdoin College 51
    6 University of California, Irvine 43
    7 Orange Coast College 39
    8 Northwestern University 38
    9 Middlebury College 30
    10 University of California, Santa Barbara 14
    Others: Vermont (5), Illinois (4), Florida (2), UC Davis (2), Wichita State (2)
    Women’s ACRA Frosh/Novice Eight
    Rank Team (First Place Votes) Points
    1 Purdue University (5) 70
    2 University of California, Santa Barbara (3) 63
    3 University of Florida 39
    4 University of Illinois 37
    5 Orange Coast College 36
    6 Washington University in St. Louis 33
    7 University of California, Irvine 30
    8 Vanderbilt University 17
    9 Northwestern University 14
    10 University of Central Florida 12
    Others: Rhode Island (11), Middlebury (10), Georgia (2), West Point (1), Vermont (1)

    Race Highlights: April 26-28

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    Photo by Lisa Worthy.

    Longhorn Invite: We have a new mid-season top dog in DI women’s rowing after #2 Texas defeated #1 Stanford in both the varsity eight and second varsity eight, while the Cardinal came away with a narrow victory in the varsity four. In an event the was rescheduled and reformatted due to high winds, the top-two ranked teams in women’s rowing, along with #12 Virginia and #14 Ohio State, raced in head to head, dual-style races on Lake Walter E. Long Saturday morning. The Buckeyes also had a strong showing, sweeping the Cavaliers in all of the NCAA-class boats. Full results here.

    High School Scholastic Championships: As the junior season heats up, scholastic championships are starting to take place for high school crews around the country. This past weekend, the Garden State Scholastic Championships crowned the fastest high school crews in New Jersey while the FSRA Sweep Championships named the fastest scholastic sweep crews in Florida. Last weekend, the FSRA Sculling Championships did the same for the sculling teams.

     

    Lake Wheeler Invite: Tennessee continued their roll through the heart of the season, coming away from the Lake Wheeler Invite undefeated across 15 races, with wins over #10 Syracuse, #11 Penn, and #18 Washington State, while also scoring more points than #16 Duke who they did not face head to head. The real intrigue of the event comes for those crews fighting to make their case for at-large bids to the NCAA National Championships. Syracuse and Penn split two races in the varsity eight, though the Orange won both second varsity races. Margins off of Tennessee at Lake Wheeler and at last week’s Big Ten Invite suggest that Penn, Syracuse, Rutgers, and Indiana are all within less than two seconds of each other in the varsity eight.  Meanwhile, #18 Washington State defeated #16 Duke in the top boat, making their own case to upset the rankings. Also of note, UCF finished third in the overall points standings, sweeping their final four races on Saturday.  Full results can be found here.

    European Rowing Championships: The 2024 European Rowing Championships and European Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta concluded on Sunday in Szeged, Hungary with Great Britain on top of the medal table, sweeping the men’s sweep events and finishing second in the women’s eight behind defending champs Romania. A total of 20 different nations won medals with champions coming from nine countries, including Norway who won their first ever gold for a women’s crew in an Olympic boat class at this level as Thea Helseth and Inger Seim Kavlie won the women’s double sculls, in addition to Birgit Skarstein’s gold in the PR1 women’s single sculls.  At the regatta, 10 crews punched their tickets to the Paris Olympic Games: individual neutral athlete Tatsiana Klimovich, Azerbaijan’s Diana Dymchenko, Ukrainian Yevheniia Dovhodko, Serbian Nikolaj Pimenov, Bulgaria’s Kristian Vasilev, and Belgian Tim Brys earned the nod in the single sculls; Poland and Austria qualified in the lightweight women’s double sculls; and Ukraine and Belgium in the lightweight men’s double sculls.

     

    TWENTY NATIONS WIN EUROPEAN ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS MEDALS

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    Story and photo courtesy of World Rowing.

    The 2024 European Rowing Championships and and the World Rowing European Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regatta came to a close on Sunday in Szeged, Hungary, as Romania won the women’s eight in style.

    The defending champions’ win over Great Britain (silver) and Italy (bronze) was their fourth gold medal of the championships, but it was Britain who finished atop the medal table with a total of eight gold medals, one silver, and one bronze.

    Crews from nine nations go home as European rowing champions, including Norway. Adding to Birgit Skarstein’s gold in the PR1 women’s single sculls on Saturday, Thea Helseth and Inger Seim Kavlie won the women’s double sculls on Sunday. Their victory, ahead of world silver medallists Lithuania, and world and Olympic champions Romania, was Norway’s first-ever win for a women’s crew in an Olympic boat class at this level.

    Great Britain’s wins included a clean sweep of the men’s sweep events. Adding to victory in the men’s eight yesterday, their men’s pair and men’s four looked dominant in winning their finals on Sunday. Tom George and Ollie Wynne-Griffith in the pair earned European gold on the third time of asking, after two previous silver medals, while the four defended their 2023 title.

    The British PR3 mixed coxed four also remained dominant, and are now the boat with the longest winning streak in any boat class – stretching right back to 2010, despite multiple crew changes in that time. France and Italy rounded off the podium.

    Among the Romanian victories, women’s pair champions Ioana Vrinceanu and Roxana Anghel made it two gold medals on Sunday as they also doubled up in the eight. Meanwhile Andrei-Sebastian Cornea and Marian Enache stormed to a huge early margin in the men’s double sculls to win their nation’s first gold medal in this boat class.

    Other Sunday champions included Serbia’s Jovana Arsic, who won the women’s single sculls with a blistering first 500m, and Germany’s Oliver Zeidler, who will go to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as world and European champion in the men’s single sculls.

    In the 2024 World Rowing European Olympic & Paralympic Qualification Regatta, 10 crews booked tickets to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Individual neutral athlete Tatsiana Klimovich, Azerbaijan’s Diana Dymchenko, Ukrainian Yevheniia Dovhodko, Serbian Nikolaj Pimenov, Bulgaria’s Kristian Vasilev, and Belgian Tim Brys earned the nod in the single sculls; Poland and Austria qualified in the lightweight women’s double sculls; and Ukraine and Belgium in the lightweight men’s double sculls.

    #1 Tufts Women’s Rowing Wins 1V8 and 3V8 Races Over #3 Williams College

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    Story and photo courtesy of Tufts Athletics.

    PITTSFIELD, MA (April 27, 2024) – Top-ranked Tufts University defeated #3 Williams College by two lengths in the first varsity eight race this morning to highlight Jumbo action on Onota Lake.

    The Tufts 1V8 had an outstanding time of 6:53.59 for the 2000 meters, well ahead of Williams College’s 7:04.53 mark. The seventh-ranked Hamilton 1V8 was third in the race with a 7:20.78 finish. The Jumbo first varsity lined up coxswain Hannah Jiang, Rose Tinkjian, Janna Moore, Shira Roberts, Emma Mahoney, Summer Maxwell, Samara Haynes, Karen Dooley and Emma Lyle.

    The second varsity race came down to the wire with Williams College winning in a 7:00.63 time barely one second ahead of the Jumbos in 7:01.71. Hamilton crossed the finish line in a 7:16.43 mark for third place. Tufts’ team was coxswain Maddie Rosato with Margot Durfee, Reilly Uiterwyk, Amanda Downing, Hadley Keefe, Lucy Howell, Aoife Schmitt, Julia Zipoli and Sydney Barr.

    Tufts also won the third Varsity 8+ race with its team of coxswain Shriyaa Srihari, Lecia Sun, Natalie Graham, Alicia Coble, Brooke Thompson, Grace Hamilton, Sophie Cumming, Molly Heeney and Ashna Garikapati rowing a 7:02.98 time. Hamilton College was closest behind, finishing a length away in a 7:07.72 mark. Tufts’ fourth varsity was also in the tightly-contested race and recorded a 7:09.44 finish. Williams College was last (7:13.09).

    Tufts’ third varsity sat coxswain Shriyaa Srihari with Lecia Sun, Natalie Graham, Alicia Coble, Brooke Thompson, Grace Hamilton, Sophie Cumming, Molly Heeney and Ashna Garikapati. The Jumbo 4V8 was  coxswain Sophie Novitsky, Ashley Brzezenski, Zenani Himlin-Mayekiso, Stella Shen, Alex Timoney, Fiona Smirl, Sanjana Rao, Alice Wall and Cecelia Wilson.

    The Jumbos also had a fifth varsity team entered in a varsity four men’s race today and they placed third with a 7:38.08 time. Tufts’ line-up in this race was not available at the time of this release.

    Tufts will begin its championship season next Saturday (May 4) on Lake Quinsigamond with the New England Rowing Championships.

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