Rowing Earns Highest Ranking in Program History – Ohio State Buckeyes
4/4/2001 12:00:00 AM | Rowing
April 4, 2001
COLUMBUS, Ohio. – The Ohio State women’s rowing team is tied for No. 7 nationally, a program record, in the season’s first USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association NCAA Division I Varsity Eight Coaches Poll. Brown University garnered 19 first-place votes to claim the top spot.
USRowing, in conjunction with the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) will conduct weekly polls for Women’s NCAA Division I Collegiate Varsity Eights throughout the season.
The Buckeyes are in action at noon Sunday, April 8 against Cincinnati at the Griggs Reservoir on the Scioto River in Columbus.
Women’s NCAA Division I Varsity Eights Team (1st-Place Votes) Points 1. Brown University (19) 475 2. University of Washington (5) 446 3. Princeton University 421 4. University of Michigan 381 5. Harvard University 328 6. Syracuse University 316 7t. University of California at Berkeley 313 7t. The Ohio State University 313 9. University of Southern California 298 10. Yale University 283 11. Boston University 272 12. University of Virginia 228 13. Rutgers University 143 14. University of Notre Dame 121 15. University of Iowa 118 16. Michigan State University 117 17. University of Wisconsin 88 18. University of Texas 55 19. Cornell University 54 20. Oregon State University 51
Others receiving votes: University of Pennsylvania 50, Northeastern University 30, Stanford University 30, Washington State University 29, Dartmouth College 25, Clemson University 23, University of Tulsa 12, University of Massachusetts 7, San Diego State University 6, Columbia University 4, and University of Miami 3.
