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    NCAA DIII Field is Set

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    The DIII field for the 2024 NCAA Rowing Championship has been set. Eight programs will contest two events, first and second varsity eights, for the national championship on May 31-June 1 in Bethel, OH.

    Four teams earned automatic qualifying bids by winning their conference championships, making up Pool A:

    Following the completion of the regular season, four more teams were selected from Pool B/C, which includes “independents, institutions from conferences that do not meet automatic-qualification standards and those Pool A institutions that do not receive their conference’s automatic qualification,” according to the 2024 NCAA Pre-Championship Manual. Additionally, each of the four regions, Mid-Atlantic, New England, New York, and Pacific, must be represented at the championships via an automatic-qualifier or the top-ranked team in the region.

    Those four additional teams, announced on May 14th via the selection show, are:

    • Puget Sound
    • Trinity (Connecticut)
    • Wesleyan (Connecticut)
    • Williams

    See below the 2024 DIII rowing heat and lane assignments.

    IRA National Championship Division III Selected Teams Announced

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    Commissioner Gary Caldwell has announced the teams who have been selected to participate in the 2024 Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championship regatta. They represent the following institutions:

    Automatic Qualifiers
    ● Mid Atlantic Rowing Conference (MARC): Milwaukee School of Engineering
    ● Liberty League: Ithaca College
    ● New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC): Wesleyan University and Williams College

    Independents
    ● United States Coast Guard Academy

    At-large Invitations
    ● Trinity College
    ● Tufts University
    ● Bates College

    About the regatta
    The 2024 IRA regatta will be held at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, NJ and will feature Division 3 racing on Friday, May 31st and Saturday, June 1st. This will be the 121st running of the regatta and the third consecutive one to host a D3 championship.

    About the competitors
    Williams returns as the 2-time defending national champion, with Trinity, Tufts, and Bates joining them in making their third straight appearance at the IRA. Weselyan, last year’s silver medalists, will make their second appearance after finishing the 2024 regular season undefeated and capturing wins at the NERC, NIRC, and NESCAC Championships. This year will be the first appearance for MSOE, Ithaca, and the US Coast Guard Academy.

    About the selection process
    This event will be limited to 8 entries at the discretion of the Selection/Seeding Committee. If the number of IRA eligible declarations in the IRA Men’s National Championship Division III Varsity Heavyweight Eight is less than or equal to 7, allocated entries will be awarded and at-large entries may be awarded up to a limit of 6 or 7 total. If there are more than 7 IRA eligible declarations, allocation of entries will be made as follows:

    2024 Regional Qualifying Regatta and Qualifying Entry Allocations
    Group A: NESCAC Championship (Currently contested at NIRC); First two (2) IRA DIII Eligible Finishers
    Group A: MARC Championship; First IRA DIII Eligible Finisher
    Group A: Liberty League Championship; First IRA DIII Eligible Finisher
    Group B: West Coast Region Allocation†; One Chosen by Selection Committee
    Group D: At Large, no conference AQ; One Chosen by Selection Committee
    Group F: At-Large †; Remaining available allocations

    † Any entry participating in a qualifying regatta but not qualifying at that regatta, will be considered an
    At-Large entry. Any unused regional or Conference Automatic allocations will revert to the At-Large pool.

    Race Highlights: May 10-12

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    Madeline Davis Tully
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    Photo by Lisa Worthy.

    Dad Vails: Drexel won both the men’s and women’s varsity eights at the Jefferson Dad Vail Regatta this weekend, the third consecutive win at Vails for the men, making them the first team to do so in 23 years. On the strength of these performances, Drexel won the overall points trophy as well as the men’s points trophy. Paul Savell, the Dragon’s director of rowing, said, “I couldn’t be more proud of the entire program and their outstanding performance to capture the overall team title.”  Savell, in his 17th year with the program, continued, “Drexel Rowing’s triumph at Dad Vail’s, securing victories in the varsity women’s 8, and the men’s varsity 8, varsity 4, and 3rd 8, and topping overall team points, is a testament to the relentless dedication, passion and excellence, that define Drexel Rowing.”

    Georgetown won the women’s points trophy with seven medals overall across open and lightweight events. Full results.

    USRowing Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Youth Championships: This weekend, on Lake Mercer in New Jersey and at Nathan Benderson Park in Florida, over 3,500 high school athletes vied for regional championships and qualifying spots for the USRowing Youth National Championship in June at the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Youth Championships. In the Mid-Atlantic edition of the race, St. Joseph’s Prep won the men’s youth eight while Mount Saint Joseph’s Academy won the women’s youth eight. Meanwhile, Whitemarsh won the men’s youth quad while Agnes Irwin won on the women’s side. In Sarasota, St. Andrew Rowing Club won the women’s youth eight while Belen Jesuit Prep School took home gold in the men’s youth eight. North Palm Beach Rowing Club won the women’s youth quad while Miami Rowing and Watersports Center won the men’s event. The Youth Series concludes next week with the Northeast and Northwest Youth Championships.

    American Athletic Conference Championship: In the first DI conference championship of the year, Southern Methodist came away with their fourth consecutive American Athletic Conference Championship and the accompanying NCAA National Championship qualification spot with wins in the second varsity eight, varsity four, and second varsity four, earning 132 points. Tulsa won the varsity eight, scoring 128 points overall, and winning the AAC award for Staff of the Year. The rest of the DI NCAA qualification regattas will be held this upcoming weekend across the country.

    #4 Stanford Lightweight Women vs. #3 Boston University: The #4 Stanford lightweight women welcomed #3 BU to Redwood Shores for the first time in program history last weekend, coming away with in a win in the varsity eight by over 10 seconds, upending the lightweight rankings. This is Stanford’s fourth straight win after sweeping WIRAs and defeating #6 Wisconsin prior to that. The Terriers came away with wins in the varsity four and double. This is the final race for both teams prior to the IRA National Championship later this month.

    #4 Stanford Lightweight Women’s 8+ Tops #3 Boston

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    Story and photo courtesy of Stanford Athletics.

    REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. – The No. 4 Stanford Lights raced No. 3 Boston today, with the varsity 8+ topping the Terriers at Redwood Shores.

    The eight finished over 10 seconds ahead of Boston to take a fourth-straight win after sweeping WIRAs two weeks ago and topping No. 6 Wisconsin before that.

    Next up for Stanford is the IRA Championships beginning on May 31 in Mercer, N.J.

    RESULTS
    Varsity 8+

    1. Stanford      6:34.9
    2. Boston         6:49.4

    Varsity 4+

    1. Boston         7:24.7
    2. Stanford       7:40.7

    Varsity 2+

    1. Boston          7:36.1
    2. Stanford.       7:47.8

    BOATS
    Varsity 8+
    Coxswain: Lydia Garnett
    Stroke Seat: Anna Meurer
    7. Emily Molins
    6. Maddie Lloyd
    5. Juliette Lermusiaux
    4. Brook Ruszkiewicz
    3. Jordan Stock
    2. Hannah Justicz
    Bow Seat: Grace Padula

    Varsity 4+
    Coxswain: Marrisa Chow
    Stroke Seat: Brooke Legenzowski
    3. Lauren Koester 
    2.  Sophia Ramaraju
    Bow Seat: Mikayla Chen

    Varsity 2x
    Stroke Seat: Hannah Peters
    Bow Seat: Elle Rosenfeld

    #1 Wesleyan Men’s Rowing Varsity 8 Captures Gold at New England Championship for the Fifth Time in Team History

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    Story and photo courtesy of Wesleyan Athletics.
    WORCESTER, Mass. – The varsity 8 for the No. 1 nationally ranked Wesleyan men’s rowing team continues to roll as the Cardinals’ top boat captured a first-place finish at the New England Championships hosted at Lake Quinsigamond on Saturday. This marks the fifth time in team history (1967, 1987, 2004, 2019, 2024) that the Cardinals have won the Rusty Callow Trophy (New England Championship).

    Competing against every boat ranked in the Top 5 nationally, the Cardinals earned a spot in the grand final with a time of 6:04.20 in heat 1 of preliminaries. Racing in the grand final against MIT (competes at the D1 level in crew), No. 2 Trinity, No. 3 Tufts, No. 4 Williams, and No. 5 Bates, it was the Cardinals who surged past the finish line in a near photo finish over the runner-up MIT. Wesleyan clocked in at 5:57.59 to earn the win while the Engineers had a time of 5:58.88 and the Jumbos took third at 5:59.34.

    The Cardinals’ 2nd varsity 8 had a strong showing as well, finishing second in heat 2 of preliminaries with a time of 6:12.69. Racing against the same five crews as the varsity 8 in the grand final, the Cardinals managed a third-place finish with a time of 6:12.60, finishing behind only Tufts (6:09.27) and Williams (6:10.58).

    Wesleyan’s 3rd varsity 8 earned a silver in the grand final, finishing runner-up to the Jumbos with a time of 6:21.65. The Cardinals won heat 2 in preliminaries, crossing the line in 6:25.04 to earn a spot in the grand final.

    Rounding out the competition for the Cardinals was the 4th varsity 8 which finished third out of six boats, crossing the line in 6:22.60. Tufts’ A and B boats finished #1 and #2 in the 4th varsity 8 race.

    The Cardinals head back to Lake Quinsigamond next Sunday, May 12 for the National Invitational as Wesleyan looks to improve on last year’s third place finish in the varsity 8 race.

    Featuring for the Cardinals on the day included:
    Varsity 8 – Asher Israel ’26 (coxswain), Pierce Buckner-Wolfson ’26, Nelson Bellows ’26, Emmett Nunes ’23, Gus Shuman, Eli Smirin ’26, Paul Kiyonaga ’25, Hugo Harington ’25, and Brett Beaman ’26
    2nd Varsity 8 – Ben Fischer ’27 (coxswain), Cory Reavy ’26, Nate Newcomer ’25, Freddie Bell ’25, Kiran Kling ’24, Eli Kooistra ’25, Max Ewing ’24, Josh Silbert ’26, and Cabot Adams ’27
    3rd Varsity 8 – Meg Rubenstein ’25 (coxswain), Will McNally ’27, Andrew Steinert ’25, Taji Duncan ’27, Jack Cornog ’26, Nader Moghadam ’26, Haakon Kohler ’27, Evan Salhanick ’27, and Teddy Manning ’25
    4th Varsity 8 – Mo Frazier ’25 (coxswain), Morgan Shatzman ’25, Tor Kushner ’27, Alex Glotzer ’25, Rowan Cahill ’26, Frank Castrofilippo ’27, Alex Kelsh ’27, Nick Jarrett ’25, and Ro Barrett ’26

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    #1 Tufts Women’s Rowing Wins First-Ever NESCAC Title

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    Story and photo courtesy of Tufts Athletics.

    WORCESTER, MA (May 12, 2024) – The Tufts University Women’s Rowing first varsity eight won the team’s first-ever NESCAC Championship today by finishing first in the grand final at the 2024 National Invitational Rowing Championships on Lake Quinsigamond.

    The NIRC 1V8 grand final also serves as the NESCAC Championship, and the race today featured six of the top 10 teams in the Division III national poll. The Jumbos, ranked #1 in Division III for the past few weeks, proved their excellence by winning the race in a  6:52.089 time. They were three seconds ahead of second-place and #3 ranked Trinity College (6:55.249), #2 ranked Wesleyan in third (6:55.527) and #4 ranked Williams who was fifth (6:55.735) who were all within a half-second of each other. It’s a first-ever NIRC first varsity win for the Jumbos as well. The Jumbos had cruised to a 7:06.403 win in their morning heat, in front of second-place Wellesley (7:09.165), to get into the grand final.

    The victory earns Tufts the conference’s automatic qualifying berth into the NCAA Division III Championships coming up May 31 through June 2 in Bethel, Ohio. It also highlighted a tremendous day on the water for Tufts today. Coach Lily Siddall‘s team also won NIRC championships in third and fourth varsity races and the novice eight, and they were the runner-up in the second varsity event.

    Final Point Trophy standings for the 2024 NIRC were not yet available at the time of this release and will be added once they are completed. The Jumbos won the Team Points Trophy in 2023.

    Tufts was edged by Williams College in the NIRC second varsity final today. Tufts was barely a second behind (7:10.582) the Ephs (7:09.346) in a great race. Wesleyan was third, two lengths behind Tufts in 7:17.806. The Jumbos had won the first heat in the morning, finishing nearly a length ahead of Hamilton College (7:11.493 to 7:15.937).

    Both the Tufts third and fourth varsity teams won NIRC titles for the second year in a row.

    In the third varsity eight, the Jumbos had won their six-team heat handily with a 7:14.539 time that was almost nine seconds in front of Hamilton’s 7:23.090 finish. In the grand final runner-up Hamilton was closer, but Tufts still pulled out the win with a 7:15.300 time to 7:19.204 by the Continentals. The Jumbos added this NIRC title to their second straight win at the New England Rowing Championships last weekend.

    Tufts won a three-team fourth varsity eight race on the women’s side with a 7:26.603 mark today that was 12 seconds in front of second-place Smith College. The W5V8 then won the four-team Women’s Novice 8 grand final with a 7:40.377 mark ahead of Ithaca College’s 7:49.208.

    Starting eights for the women’s team were not available at the time of this release. However, they resemble the line-ups from last week’s New England teams. Any changes to these groups will be made when they become available:

    1V8 – coxswain Hannah Jiang, Rose Tinkjian, Janna Moore, Shira Roberts, Emma Mahoney, Summer Maxwell, Samara Haynes, Karen Dooley and Emma Lyle;
    2V8 – coxswain Maddie Rosato with Margot Durfee, Reilly Uiterwyk, Amanda Downing, Hadley Keefe, Lucy Howell, Aoife Schmitt, Julia Zipoli and Sydney Barr;
    3V8 – coxswain Shriyaa Srihari, Lecia Sun, Natalie Graham, Alicia Coble, Sophie Cumming, Grace Hamilton, Brooke Thompson, Molly Heeney and Ashna Garikapati;
    4V8 – coxswain Sophie Novitsky, Ashley Brzezenski, Zenani Himlin-Mayekiso, Sophia Brackett, Alex Timoney, Stella Shen, Sanjana Rao, Alice Wall and Cecelia Wilson;
    5V8 – coxswain Alex Boyer, Eva Swei, Giavanna Magnoni, Sheelyn Pharr, Nosara Maxwell, Fiona Smirl, Savannah Fredriksen, Hannah Schiller, Lyra Bornholdt-Collins and Claire Carson.

    SMU Captures Fourth Consecutive American Athletic Conference Women’s Rowing Title

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    Story courtesy of SMU Athletics. Photo courtesy of American Athletic Conference/Brett Carlson.

    OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – SMU captured its fourth consecutive American Athletic Conference Women’s Rowing Championship Sunday morning, May 12, on Melton Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

    The Mustangs finished with 132 points to capture the team title, while Tulsa finished second with 128 points. The 4-point margin is tied for the smallest margin of victory in Championship history (2019).

    Tulsa captured the Varsity 8 race for the first time in program history, winning in a time of 6:39.272 behind the crew of Johanna Kristof, Kristina Harris, Ifiyenia Marinos, Emily Bell, Madlen Markova, Darya Vyrupayeva, Robine Van Doorn, Anna Shaw and Isabella Musollino. SMU was second in 6:42.217, ahead of third place Sacramento State in 6:48.320.

    SMU’s crew of Jamie Mayberry, Ava Ha, Claire Murphy, Sophia Dooley, Sarah Wood, Anna Fina, Annabelle New, Sydney Stuelpe and coxswain Ashlyn Wilshire. won the Second Varsity 8 race in 6:48.146, ahead of Tulsa (6:52.547) and Sacramento State (7:00.763).

    The Mustangs won the Varsity 4 race in 7:34.494 with a crew of Paige Horton, Avery Bethel, Macey Adley, Ellie Lewis and coxswain Francesca La Marca. Sacramento State just edged Tulsa for second place with a time of 7:41.148 to 7:41.843).

    The SMU Second Varsity 4 crew of Sarah Kelly, Saylor Kercher, Muriel Mercer, Issy Batrouney and coxswain Erin Kang opened the racing in the morning with a win in 7:47.564, ahead of Tulsa (7:50.408) and Temple (8:04.550).

    Tulsa’s coaching staff, led by head coach Brandon Campbell, was named The American’s Coaching Staff of the Year.

    With the conference title, SMU automatically qualifies for the 2024 NCAA Championship, to be held May 31-June 2 at East Fork/Harsha Lake in Bethel, Ohio. The selection show for the national regatta takes place Tuesday, May 21 at 5 p.m. Eastern on NCAA.com.

    2024 American Women’s Rowing Championship Results

    1. SMU 132
    2. Tulsa 128
    3. Sacramento State 100
    4. Temple 72
    5. Old Dominion 48
         

    Coaching Staff of the Year

    Tulsa

    All-Conference First Team

    Sofia Bespalova, Old Dominion

    Sydnie Bain, Sacramento State

    Emily Baker, SMU

    Lauren Bilafer, SMU

    Anne Ensley, SMU

    Grace Knudson, SMU

    Sarah Wood, SMU

    Alex Catalano, Temple

    Kristina Harris, Tulsa

    Johanna Kristof, Tulsa

    Darya Vyrupayeva, Tulsa

    All-Conference Second Team

    Nicole Knight, Old Dominion

    Emma Goldsmith, Sacramento State

    Jessica Johnson, Sacramento State

    Daria Okhremtchuk, Sacramento State

    Macey Adley, SMU

    Claire Murphy, SMU

    Carly Wright, SMU

    Amarna Milne, Temple

    Niamh Kiely, Temple

    Bella Musollino, Tulsa

    Anna Shaw, Tulsa

    Coach Mom

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    Madeline Davis Tully
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    Photo by Lisa Worthy.

    Why aren’t more head coaches moms?

    In rowing, we see plenty of mothers lining the shores at regattas, running carpools to practice, and preparing food for the team tents. But Mother’s Day is as opportune a time as any to consider another less common but certainly influential place for mothers: coaching. 

    Anecdotally, mothers who coach seem to be underrepresented throughout the sport, and the numbers within at least one segment bear that out. Using the Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll as a starting point, only 17 of the 43 ranked teams have female head coaches in the first place. That’s not even 40 percent. Of those 17 coaches, a mere nine are mothers.

    That means only 21 percent of ranked collegiate women’s teams are led by a mother. That means only about 350 of the roughly 1,700 athletes at these programs have the opportunity to experience a mother leading a team. And with the departure of Megan Cook Carcago from Duke at the end of this season, one more mother leading a top program will be lost. What sort of expectations does this establish for these women, consciously or otherwise, for the leadership roles women can hold once they become mothers?   

    Let’s not neglect the other half of the rowing population. Too often, conversations about women coaching focus only on women’s teams. But there is absolutely nothing, other than cultural biases, preventing women, and mothers, from coaching men’s teams.

    Of the 56 men’s teams ranked in the IRCA/IRA Coaches Poll, however, a mere three have female head coaches. All are in DIII and all also serve as the head coach for their women’s teams: Anna Lindgren-Streicher at Hamilton College, Katie O’Driscoll at Catholic University of America, and Carol Schoenecker at Rochester Institute of Technology. Again, what sort of expectations does this establish for these men, consciously or otherwise, for the leadership roles women can hold once they become mothers?

    Also of note is that female head coaches are much less likely to be a parent than their male counterparts. Looking at the DI ranked teams, 12 of 13 male coaches are fathers, representing 92 percent, while only five of the seven female coaches are mothers. Expanded to include all divisions, nine of 17 female head coaches are mothers–just 53 percent in total.  

    Looking at these numbers, we have to ask ourselves what is preventing more mothers from getting into, or staying in, coaching and what can be done to improve this. More family-friendly athletic department practices, livable wages, and supportive communities are a good place to start. 

    On a day when much attention is being paid to all that mothers do, we owe it to all members of the rowing community to ensure that we make coaching a welcoming and feasible place for mothers to be and to thrive. 

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