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.
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“The race of the season” lived up to the hype at the Longhorn Invite! Next stop: Big 12s 🤘#HookEm | #HereComesTexas pic.twitter.com/ZEXd0NQFrE
— Texas Rowing (@TexasRowing) April 28, 2024
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.
