SU Varsity Eight Holds on to #8 Ranking after Idle Week

SYRACUSE, N.Y.- The Syracuse Orange’s varsity eight remained the eighth ranked crew in this week’s USRowing Varsity Eights Coaches Poll. The Orange did not compete last week but will be back on the water this Saturday when it travels to Hanover, N.H. to race for the Packard Cup against Dartmouth.

Princeton remains atop the chart followed by California, Stanford, Brown and Harvard, respectively. The Orange has already beat out five teams in the top 20 as it opened the season with a win against #19 Rutgers and then held off #12 Navy and #14 Cornell on its home water on April 15. SU also has victories against #11 Boston University and #20 Columbia.

Members of the varsity eight for SU are sophomore Ryan Armstrong (Andover, Mass.), senior Terry Wilkin (King of Prussia, Pa.), junior Tim Mambort (Toledo, Ohio), junior Dave Barone (Maumee, Ohio), senior Dan O’Shaughnessy (Elizabethtown, Ontario), junior Bartosz Szczyrba (Poznan, Poland), junior Justin Stangel (Madison, Wisc.), junior Matt Morrow (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and junior Chad Taylor (New Milford, Conn.).

USRowing Poll

1. Princeton

2. California

3. Stanford

4. Brown

5. Harvard

6. Wisconsin

7. Washington

8. Syracuse

9. Northeastern

10. Yale

11. Boston