USC Rowing Selected to Compete in 2023 NCAA Championship

LOS ANGELES – USC women's rowing team was selected to compete in the 2023 NCAA Division I Rowing Championships. The selection, which occurred today (Tuesday, May 16), secured USC's 13^th all-time appearance at the NCAA Championships.

The championships will be held May 26-28 at Camden County Boathouse in Pennsauken, NJ., with Temple University and Camden County Boathouse serving as host.

The Women of Troy earned the 16th seed in the Varsity Eight category, the16th seed in the Second Varsity Eight, and the Varsity Four locked down the 14th seed.

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 are required to field two boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. For the Varsity Eight, Second Varsity Eight and Varsity Four, all 22 boats will be seeded into four heats.

The 11 crews that were automatically selected due to winning their conference were Stanford (Pac-12 Conference), Texas (Big 12 Conference), Michigan (Big Ten Conference), Princeton (Ivy League), Virginia (Atlantic Coast Conference), Gonzaga (West Coast Conference), Navy (Patriot League), Northeastern (Colonial Athletic Conference), SMU (American Athletic Conference), George Washington (Atlantic 10 Conference) and Jacksonville (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference).

Joining the Trojans in Pennsauken are 10 additional at-large selections: Brown, California, Duke, Indiana, Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Syracuse, Washington, and Yale.

The 2023 NCAA Championships will begin on Friday, May 26 with the preliminary. The Semifinals kick off on Saturday, May 27 and the petite and grand finals are set to begin on Sunday, May 28.

USC's last appearance at the NCAA Championships was in 2022, where the Women of Troy placed 15^th overall. The Women of Troy tallied 47 points in the team competition with a third-place finish in the C Final by the Varsity Eight, a fifth-place finish in the C Final by the Second Varsity Eight and a sixth-place finish in the Petite Final by the Varsity Four.

Last year, the Texas Longhorns claimed the national title for the first time in the program's history. They were runners-up in 2019.

For more information on the 2022 NCAA Women's Rowing Championships, click here.

Varsity Eight 9:00 am EST
Lane	Heat 1	Heat 2	Heat 3	Heat 4
1	Rutgers	Northeastern	Gonzaga	Navy
2	Virginia	Michigan	California	SMU
3	Princeton	Texas	Stanford	Pennsylvania
4	Washington	Syracuse	Brown	Yale
5	Southern California	Duke	Ohio State	Indiana
6			Jacksonville	George Washington

Second Varsity Eight 9:48 am EST
Lane	Heat 1	Heat 2	Heat 3	Heat 4
1	Indiana	Northeastern	George Washington	Gonzaga
2	Brown	SMU	Virginia	Duke
3	Yale	Princeton	Texas	Washington
4	Ohio State	California	Pennsylvania	Stanford
5	Southern California	Rutgers	Syracuse	Michigan
6			Jacksonville	Navy

Varsity Four 10:36 am EST
Lane	Heat 1	Heat 2	Heat 3	Heat 4
1	Indiana	Gonzaga	Navy	Northeastern
2	Duke	SMU	Michigan	Ohio State
3	Texas	Yale	Brown	Stanford
4	California	Washington	Virginia	Princeton
5	Rutgers	Pennsylvania	Southern California	Syracuse
6			George Washington	Jacksonville

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