IVY LEAGUE WOMEN'S ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP
Sunday, May 14 - Lake Quinsigamond
Worcester, Mass
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – There is a new look to the Ivy League women's rowing championships this year. The races will be held on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., in conjunction with the men's Eastern Sprints. The Sunday racing starts with the morning heats at 9:21 a.m., and the finals are set for Sunday afternoon beginning with the third varsity four at 2:10 p.m. The three NCAA boat grand finals start with the varsity four at 4:40 p.m. The second varsity eight final is scheduled for 5 p.m. and the event concludes with the varsity eight final at 5:20 p.m.
 
One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that the battle for the league title and the automatic bid to the NCAA Championship will be fierce. Four Ivy League teams are ranked in the top eight of latest CRCA national poll and six are in the top 20.
 
The Ivy League champion is determined by the winner of the varsity eight grand final. The league's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Championship will be awarded to the team with the most points across the three NCAA boats (varsity eight, second varsity eight and varsity four). In addition, a Team Trophy will be presented to the team with the highest point total across all boats.
 
"The Ivy Championship is the focus of all our athletes," said Will Porter, The Friends of YWC Head Coach of the Bulldogs. "It is the day we want to be at our best. We are excited to see how fast we can go down the track, every seat, every athlete and coach. We are all in."
 
Last year, Yale, Princeton and Brown all finished with 74 points in the overall team competition. Princeton, though, earned the points title by virtue of its win in the varsity eight grand final, which also earned the Tigers their fifth straight Sally P. Shoemaker Trophy as the Ivy League champion.
 
The Bulldogs are seeking their ninth Ivy League title and first since 2010.
 
Yale enters the championship ranked third in the nation. Princeton, which handed the Bulldogs their only varsity eight loss of the regular season on Apr. 22, is the top-ranked crew in the nation. Brown is No. 5, Penn is No. 8, Harvard-Radcliffe is No. 17 and Columbia is No. 20.
 
Yale's second varsity eight went undefeated in the regular season, including a victory over Princeton, and is seeded first. The Bulldogs' third varsity eight, second varsity four and third varsity four are also the top seed. In the varsity eight, Yale and Brown tied for the second seed, and in the varsity four, the Bulldogs are seeded second.
 
Porter, who has guided the Bulldogs to four Ivy titles, is looking forward to Sunday.
 
"What a great thing for collegiate rowing to combine the Men's Sprints and Women's Ivy Championship," he said. "Every athlete who rows in the Ivy League, at all eight schools, will be racing on the same course on the same day."
 
PROBABLE YALE BOATINGS
 
Varsity Eight
Bow: Anna Scott
2: Lauren Carey          
3: Margaret Hedeman               
4: Mia Levy             
5: Nicole Martinez
6: Christina Bourmpou
7: Lucy Edmunds             
8: Veronica Wall          
cox: Grace Menke                
 
Second Varsity Eight
Bow: Sophie Houston       
2: Emmeline Laurence                   
3: Maddie Moore
4: Sophia Hahn     
5: Maya Meschkuleit
6: Christiana Congdon
7: Mette Køchs-Nielsen       
8: Hanna Winter
cox: Esha Bhattacharya
 
Varsity Four
Bow: Hannah Johns                         
2: Imogen Cabot               
3: Charlotte Fennell
4: Violet Barletta 
cox: Hope Galusha                    
 
Second Varsity Four
Bow: Lily Eales          
2: Olivia Schnur           
3: Harriet Drake-Lee       
4: Marie Ramm
Cox: Sofía Garcia
 
Third Varsity Four
Bow: Maeve Heneghan
2. Mackenzie Ealson
3. Claire Cummings
4. Clementine Perry
Cox: Emerson Harris
 
Third Varsity Eight
Bow: Clare Naughton
2: Sophia Craver   
3. Avril Walters      
4. Sus Tuder        
5. Olivia Clark
6. Anna Matthes
7. Patti Mullin
8: Zoe Alina Beeson
Cox: Hailey Edelman