No. 3 USC Heads To Pac-12 Championships
May 11, 2012 | Women's Rowing
May 11, 2012
The No. 3 USC rowing team, looking to continue its impressive season with wins over some of the nation's top teams, travels to the Pac-12 Championships this Sunday (May 13) at Lake Natoma in Sacramento, Calif. The Women of Troy will face stiff competition in a field that includes No. 1 Cal, No. 7 UCLA, No. 8 Washington, No. 12 Stanford, No. 17 Washington State and Oregon State.
USC, who won the conference title in 2007, enters the event after a strong spring. The Trojans opened the season by capturing its second straight Jessop-Whittier Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic, defeating four Pac-12 teams and Virginia, who had been ranked No. 1 all spring until Cal took over. USC captured seven of its eight races at the Stanford Invitational, including three by the varsity eight. The varsity eight enters the Pac-12 Championships with a perfect record after defeating UCLA to finish the regular season.
USC hopes to improve on last year's performance at the Pac-10 Championships which saw the squad finish third in the Varsity Eight Grand Final, third in the Second Varsity Eight Grand Final, third in the Varsity Four Grand Final and third overall.
Race times listed below.
Women's Novice Eight 9:50 a.m.
Women's Varsity Four 10:30 a.m.
Women's Second Varsity Eight 11:10 a.m.
Women's Varsity Eight 11:50 a.m.
USC's Second Varsity Four will race Saturday (May 12) at the Pacific Coast Championships also held on Lake Natoma.
