No. 16 Rowing Heads to NCAA Championships

Friday, May 27

Sarasota, FL / Nathan Benderson Park

9 AM ET

Rutgers University

NCAA Championships - Day 1

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Scarlet Knights make their third consecutive appearance at the national regatta after finishing seventh in 2021

SARASOTA, Fla. – No. 16 Rutgers rowing is set for the 2022 NCAA Championships beginning on Friday, May 27 through Sunday, May 29 at Nathan Benderson Park.

The Scarlet Knights are competing in their third consecutive NCAA Championships after breaking an 18-year drought in 2019 with an 11th-place finish, followed by a seventh-place team result in 2021 while scoring 96 team points. Rutgers' Varsity 8 placed fifth in the nation last Spring with their result in the NCAA grand final, while the Varsity 4 took seventh by winning the petite final and the 2nd Varsity 8 came in 10th overall.

Competition on Friday begins for the Scarlet Knights at 9 a.m. in the first heat of the Varsity 8. The 2nd Varsity 8 will be in the second heat at 10 a.m. At 10:48 a.m., Rutgers will compete in the second heat of the Varsity 4. All times are approximate and subject to change.

This year's field features Boston U., Brown, California, Duke, Gonzaga, Jacksonville, Michigan, Northeastern, Ohio State, Oregon State, Princeton, Rhode Island, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Texas, UPenn, USC, Virginia, Washington, and Yale.

FRIDAY HEAT SCHEDULE
Schedule
Friday, May 27 – Heats
9 a.m. ET – Varsity 8, Heat 1
Lane 1: No. 18 USC
Lane 2: No. 11 UPenn
Lane 3: No. 1 Texas
Lane 4: No. 6 Washington
Lane 5: No. 16 Rutgers

10 a.m. ET – 2nd Varity 8, Heat 2
Lane 1: Gonzaga
Lane 2: No. 7 Ohio State
Lane 3: No. 4 Yale
Lane 4: No. 10 California
Lane 5: No. 16 Rutgers

10:48 a.m. ET – Varsity 4, Heat 2
Lane 1: Northeastern
Lane 2: No. 9 Virginia
Lane 3: No. 2 Stanford
Lane 4: No. 8 Michigan
Lane 5: No. 16 Rutgers

SCORING
The NCAA Rowing champion is determined by total points with points assigned based on the finish in each race. The first-place finisher in the First Varsity 8 will receive 66 points with each subsequent finisher collecting three fewer points – 63 for second, 60 for third, etc. The Second Varsity 8 winner will earn 44 points with each successive finisher collecting two fewer points (42 points for second, 40 points for third, etc.) and the Fours winner will receive 22 points, with the runner-up earning 21 points, third receiving 20 points, etc. Ties will be broken based on the teams' result in the Varsity 8.

FORMAT
The top two times of each heat will automatically advance to the A/B Semifinals on Saturday with the remaining boats moving on to the repechage on Friday afternoon. The two fastest boats in each of the two repechage races will fill the four remaining spots in Saturday's A/B Semifinals with the bottom 10 boats moving on to the C/D Semifinals.

The results of Saturday's A/B Semifinals will determine the field competing in the Grand and Petite Finals. The top three of each A/B Semifinal will advance to the Grand Final (places 1-6) and the other six boats will move to the Petite Final (places 7-12) on Sunday.

The 10 boats that comprise the C/D Semifinals on Saturday will vie for spots in the C and D Finals on Sunday. The top six boats will advance to compete in the C Final (places 13-18), while the remaining four boats will race in the D Final (places 19-22).

HOW THEY GOT HERE
The Scarlet Knights earned one of 11 at-large bids to the NCAA Championships after another third place performance at the Big Ten Championships in Indianapolis. Rutgers matched its best conference championships finish in third place while earning a program-record six medals, including its first gold.

The Varsity 8 placed fourth, while the 2^nd Varsity 8 and Varsity 4 raced to bronze medals, matching their best results at the Big Ten Championships. Two Varsity 8 boat members were named All-Big Ten with Hannah Heideveld taking First Team honors and Luisa Neerschulte earning a Second Team distinction.

Women's Division I Rankings - May 18

Rank	Team (First Place Votes)	Votes	Previous
1	University of Texas (25)	499	1
2	Stanford University	452	2
3	Brown University	407	5
4	Yale University	398	3
5	Princeton University	382	4
6	University of Washington	367	7
7	Ohio State University	356	9
8	University of Michigan	344	6
9	University of Virginia	285	16
10	University of California, Berkeley	271	10
11	University of Pennsylvania	255	8
12	Southern Methodist University	222	12
13	Syracuse University	217	11
14	Duke University	163	14
15	Oregon State University	151	13
16	Rutgers University	133	18
17	Indiana University	110	17
18	University of Southern California	109	15
19	University of Tennessee	25	20
20	University of Miami	19	NR

Other Schools Receiving Points: Washington State University (17), Harvard University (9), Clemson University (9), University of Alabama (8), University of Central Florida (7), Boston University (7), Northeastern University (5), Michigan State University (4), U.S. Naval Academy (4), University of California, Los Angeles (4), University of Rhode Island (3), University of Minnesota (3), Columbia University (2), University of Iowa (1), Gonzaga University (1), University of Louisville (1), University of Wisconsin (1).

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