Ivy Champion Radcliffe Named to NCAA Championships Field
NCAA Release/Selection Show Video
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Radcliffe
heavyweight crew, fresh off a league-title performance at the
inaugural Ivy League Championship, has been selected to compete in
the NCAA Rowing Championships for the 14th time in the 16-year
history of the event.
The Black and White will be one of 16 teams vying for a national
championship May 25-27 on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.
Radcliffe is ranked 13th nationally and is one of five Ivy League
teams to earn an NCAA bid. An Ivy squad has won five of the last
six NCAA varsity eight titles, with the Ancient Eight champion
adding a national title on four of those occasions.
The Radcliffe varsity eight opens the competition May 25 in a heat
against Virginia, Washington and Ivy League rivals Yale and Brown,
seeking a top-three finish and semifinal berth. Those crews not
advancing directly to the semifinals will race in repechages Friday
afternoon for the remaining semifinal berths. The top three teams
from each of Saturday’s semifinal will move on to
Sunday’s grand final.
The same format is used for the second varsity eight and varsity
four events. Radcliffe will race Ohio State, Princeton, Cornell,
Washington and Michigan State in its second varsity heat. The
varsity four will take on California, Princeton, Michigan State and
Cornell.
Radcliffe won Ivy gold in two of the three NCAA-level events, the
varsity eight and varsity four. The Black and White second varsity
eight placed fourth. The varsity eight, which owns a 9-6 dual
record, faces two of its most familiar rivals. Radcliffe lost to
both Brown and Yale in the dual season but defeated the Bears and
Bulldogs in the Ivy grand final. The Black and White has not raced
Atlantic Coast Conference champion Virginia or Pac-12 bronze
medalist Washington this season.
The Black and White will race in the NCAA regatta for the second
straight year. Radcliffe earned a varsity eight bid in 1997 and
then team berths in eight straight seasons and again in 2007,
’08, ’09 and last season. Radcliffe won the NCAA team
and varsity eight championships in 2003, the last year it won the
Ivy League title.
2012 NCAA Division I Rowing Championships
Selections
Brown
California
Cornell
Michigan
Michigan State
Notre Dame
Ohio State
Princeton
Radcliffe
Stanford
Southern California
UCLA
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Yale
