2013 NCAA Rowing Championship Field Set
May 21, 2013 | Women's Rowing
May 21, 2013
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INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Committee has selected the teams that will compete in the 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Championships. The top-ranked USC Women of Troy received the Pac-12's automatic qualifier bid to the championships and will be joined by 10 other automatic qualifiers and 11 at-large selections that were announced today (May 21).
The championships will be held May 31-June 2 (Friday-Sunday) at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis with the University of Notre Dame and the Indiana Sports Corporation serving as co-hosts.
The Trojans will make their fifth consecutive team appearance in the NCAA championships; the program's seventh overall as a team. USC finished fifth twice (2007 and 2011) and has had one boat win an individual national title--the 1998 varsity four. The Trojan V8+ has earned bronze twice at the NCAA championships (2007 and 2012) while the USC 2V8+ enjoyed its best finish in school history at sixth place in 2011.
The team championship is composed of 22 teams. Eleven conferences were awarded automatic qualification and the remaining 11 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field. Teams qualifying for the championship as an automatic qualifier or as an at-large are required to field two boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. For the I Eights, II Eights, and Fours, all 22 boats will be seeded into four heats.
Joining USC as automatic qualifiers were Boston University (Colonial Athletic Association); Gonzaga (West Coast Conference); Marist (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference); Navy (Patriot League); Notre Dame (Big East Conference); Ohio State (Big Ten Conference); Oklahoma (Conference USA); Princeton (The Ivy League); Rhode Island (Atlantic 10 Conference), and Virginia (Atlantic Coast Conference).
Pac-12 champion California topped all at-large selections and was joined by fellow Pac-12 crews from UCLA, Stanford, Washington, and Washington State. Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Yale rounded out the 22-team championship field.
Preliminary heats are set to begin on Friday, May 31, at 9:10 a.m. CT. Preliminary repechage races are set to start at 3:50 p.m. on the same day. Semifinals will take place on Saturday, June 1, starting at 8:30 a.m. C (places 13-18) and D (places 19-22) finals start at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, June 2, and petite and grand finals in all three events are set for 10 a.m. on the final day.
Last year, Virginia claimed its second national title at the NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Championships at Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J. The last Pac-12 team to win the title was Stanford in 2009. California owns a pair of crowns (2005-06) while Washington has three (1997-98, 2001). Brown has won seven of the 16 NCAA women's championships with Harvard owning the only other title from 2003.
All-session and single-session tickets for the championships can be purchased at www.NCAA.com/tickets through May 29. Beginning May 30, tickets are available on-site (cash only). All-session tickets are $40, while student and senior citizen tickets are $25. The tickets include all three days of competition. Single-session tickets are $15, while student and senior citizen are $10. Parking information is available at www.IndianaSportsCorp.org.
For all of the latest news, results and a webcast of all races at the NCAA Championships, visit NCAA.com.
| 2013 NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Championships | |||
| Eagle Creek Park | Indianapolis, Ind. | |||
| Friday-Sunday, May 31-June 2 | |||
| VARSITY EIGHT | |||
| HEAT 1 | 9:10 a.m. | HEAT 2 | 9:20 a.m. | HEAT 3 | 9:30 a.m. | HEAT 4 | 9:40 a.m. |
| USC* (Pac-12) | Princeton* (Ivy League) | Ohio State* (Big Ten) | Virginia* (ACC) |
| Yale | UCLA | California | Washington |
| Harvard | Stanford | Notre Dame* (Big East) | Michigan |
| Washington State | Brown | Cornell | Wisconsin |
| Oklahoma* (C-USA) | Boston U* (CAA) | Navy* (Patriot League) | Gonzaga* (WCC) |
| Marist* (MAAC) | Rhode Island* (A10) | ||
| II VARSITY EIGHT | |||
| HEAT 1 | 9:50 a.m. | HEAT 2 | 10 a.m. | HEAT 3 | 10:10 a.m. | HEAT 4 | 10:20 a.m. |
| Ohio State | California | USC | Brown |
| Virginia | Harvard | Princeton | Washington |
| UCLA | Wisconsin | Notre Dame | Stanford |
| Yale | Michigan | Oklahoma | Cornell |
| Washington State | Boston U | Gonzaga | Navy |
| Marist | Rhode Island | ||
| VARSITY FOUR | |||
| HEAT 1 | 10:30 a.m. | HEAT 2 | 10:40 a.m. | HEAT 3 | 10:50 a.m. | HEAT 4 | 11 a.m. |
| California | Ohio State | Brown | UCLA |
| Wisconsin | Princeton | Yale | Washington |
| Washington State | USC | Virginia | Notre Dame |
| Cornell | Stanford | Harvard | Michigan |
| Oklahoma | Rhode Island | Boston U | Navy |
| Marist | Gonzaga | ||
| * Denotes automatic qualifier | |||
| All preliminary heats will be held on Friday, May 31. | |||
| REPECHAGE SCHEDULE | May 31 | |||
| 3:50 p.m. | V8+ Repechage 1 | ||
| 4 p.m. | V8+ Repechage 2 | ||
| 4:10 p.m. | 2V8+ Repechage 1 | ||
| 4:20 p.m. | 2V8+ Repechage 2 | ||
| 4:30 p.m. | V4+ Repechage 1 | ||
| 4:40 p.m. | V4+ Repechage 2 | ||
