Princeton University Athletics
Friday, May 30
West Windsor, N.J.
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NCAA Championships
First Varsity
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PRINCETON – The Princeton Women's Rowing Team heads to Mercer Lake for the NCAA Rowing Championships this weekend (May 30-June 1).
Racing gets underway on Friday with heat events. The Varsity Eight rows at 10:24 am followed by the second varsity at 11 a.m. with the varsity four finishing up at 11:36 a.m. The top three in each heat advance to the A/B Semifinals on Saturday. The top three finishers in the A/B Semifinals move onto the Grand Finals on Sunday.
Princeton earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Rowing Championships becoming one of six Ivy League schools in the field with Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn and Brown. The Tigers' first varsity earned a national seed of No. 5 while the second varsity collected a No. 6 seed. The varsity four nabbed a No. 10 seed for the NCAA Rowing Championships.
The First Varsity ripped off a blistering time of 6:01.18 to take down No. 5 Yale (6:05.06) by 3.8 seconds in the Ivy League Grand Final. The Tigers led throughout the race, defeating Yale's previously unbeaten boat. It is the eighth consecutive victory for the 1V at Ivies and 10th in the past 11 events. The second varsity just missed out on gold, recording a 6:07.39, .6 seconds back of Yale (6:06.75). Princeton's varsity four nabbed bronze, crossing the line at 7:01.39 while Yale (6:52.86) and Brown (6:57.90) picked up the top two positions.
Princeton's first varsity has victories this season over No. 7 Brown, Cornell, Harvard, No. 10 Syracuse, No. 16 Ohio State and No. 13 Penn in the regular season.
The Tigers have had four boats win national championships at the NCAAs in the 1997 second varsity, 2006 first varsity, 2011 first varsity and 2022 varsity four.
Last year, Princeton finished fourth in the NCAA team standings, marking the first time the program had been in the top four in three consecutive seasons since 2010-13. Texas edged Stanford for the national championship, finishing with 130 points to 127 for the Cardinal. Tennessee was next with 118, followed by Princeton, again the highest finishing Ivy League team, with 112.
Since 2010, the first varsity has secured top 10 finishes at NCAAs all but twice. The boat has medaled two of the past three seasons as the Tigers in the overall team standings. In addition to the varsity four's gold in 2022, the boat nabbed silver last season.
At the Paris Olympic Games in the summer, Princeton had four alumnae in Claire Collins '19, Kelsey Reelick '14, Emily Kallfelz '19 and Hannah Scott '21 represent their countries. Reelick '14 and Kallfelz '19 led the U.S. four to fourth overall while Collins' 19 helped the U.S. eight to fifth.
Scott '21 helped the Great Britian quad sculls to gold. Scott became the first rowing gold for Princeton since Caroline Lind '06. One day later, Nick Mead '17 joined Scott as he led the U.S. men's four to the top spot.
Racing gets underway on Friday with heat events. The Varsity Eight rows at 10:24 am followed by the second varsity at 11 a.m. with the varsity four finishing up at 11:36 a.m. The top three in each heat advance to the A/B Semifinals on Saturday. The top three finishers in the A/B Semifinals move onto the Grand Finals on Sunday.
Princeton earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Rowing Championships becoming one of six Ivy League schools in the field with Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn and Brown. The Tigers' first varsity earned a national seed of No. 5 while the second varsity collected a No. 6 seed. The varsity four nabbed a No. 10 seed for the NCAA Rowing Championships.
The First Varsity ripped off a blistering time of 6:01.18 to take down No. 5 Yale (6:05.06) by 3.8 seconds in the Ivy League Grand Final. The Tigers led throughout the race, defeating Yale's previously unbeaten boat. It is the eighth consecutive victory for the 1V at Ivies and 10th in the past 11 events. The second varsity just missed out on gold, recording a 6:07.39, .6 seconds back of Yale (6:06.75). Princeton's varsity four nabbed bronze, crossing the line at 7:01.39 while Yale (6:52.86) and Brown (6:57.90) picked up the top two positions.
Princeton's first varsity has victories this season over No. 7 Brown, Cornell, Harvard, No. 10 Syracuse, No. 16 Ohio State and No. 13 Penn in the regular season.
The Tigers have had four boats win national championships at the NCAAs in the 1997 second varsity, 2006 first varsity, 2011 first varsity and 2022 varsity four.
Last year, Princeton finished fourth in the NCAA team standings, marking the first time the program had been in the top four in three consecutive seasons since 2010-13. Texas edged Stanford for the national championship, finishing with 130 points to 127 for the Cardinal. Tennessee was next with 118, followed by Princeton, again the highest finishing Ivy League team, with 112.
Since 2010, the first varsity has secured top 10 finishes at NCAAs all but twice. The boat has medaled two of the past three seasons as the Tigers in the overall team standings. In addition to the varsity four's gold in 2022, the boat nabbed silver last season.
At the Paris Olympic Games in the summer, Princeton had four alumnae in Claire Collins '19, Kelsey Reelick '14, Emily Kallfelz '19 and Hannah Scott '21 represent their countries. Reelick '14 and Kallfelz '19 led the U.S. four to fourth overall while Collins' 19 helped the U.S. eight to fifth.
Scott '21 helped the Great Britian quad sculls to gold. Scott became the first rowing gold for Princeton since Caroline Lind '06. One day later, Nick Mead '17 joined Scott as he led the U.S. men's four to the top spot.
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