Orange Seek to Make History at NCAA Championship
5/29/2021 4:24:00 PM | Women's Rowing
The Syracuse University women's rowing team will compete in the petite finals at the 2021 NCAA Championship on Sunday, May 30 at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla. The Orange varsity eight, second varsity eight and varsity four each placed sixth in the A/B semifinals on Saturday at the 22-team NCAA Championship. The 2002 Orange team recorded the best NCAA performance in program history with a 12th place team finish. Syracuse's 2016 and 2017 teams placed 13th and the 2018 Orange came in 16th. Fans are invited to watch the racing live on NCAA.com.
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"Today was some good hard racing against the semifinals with the 12 best teams in the country, and we are one of them," said head coach Luke McGee. "We are one of 10 teams that has every boat in the A/B semifinals and that is a real accomplishment in and of itself. It is a challenging turnaround racing twice yesterday and coming back and racing this morning. We certainly want to have our best race of the regatta tomorrow morning. I told the varsity eight the goal is to finish the year with your absolute best race on the last day."
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The 14th-seeded varsity eight will race in the petite finals on Sunday after a sixth-place finish in the A/B semifinals on Saturday. The Orange covered the course in 6:31.507. Top-seed Texas (6:09.073), fifth-seed Michigan (6:13.681), sixth-seed Rutgers (6:14.057) finished first through third, respectively, to advance to the grand final. Seventh-seed Ohio State (6:17.009) and 11th-seed Alabama (6:28.449) advanced to the petite final with Syracuse. They will compete against eighth-seed California, ninth-seed Princeton and 17th-seed Brown at 10:36 am.
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In the second varsity eight A/B semifinal, 11th-seeded second varsity eight finished the race in 6:30.184, advancing to the petite final. First-seed Texas (6:11.518), fourth-seed Stanford (6:13.270) and third-seed Virginia (6:18.844) will race in the grand final after their top-three finishes. The Orange will race in the petite final with eighth-seed Brown (6:24.084) and seventh-seed Rutgers (6:29.968), in addition to ninth-seed SMU, 10th-seed California and 14th-seed Wisconsin at 10:12 am.
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The 11th-seeded varsity four advanced to the petite finals with sixth-place finish in the A/B semifinals. First-seed Stanford (6:53.207), fifth-seed Washington (6:58.751) and third-seed Michigan advanced to the grand final. Seventh-seed Brown (7:13.793) and 14th-seed Cal (7:16.427) also advanced to the petite final with Syracuse and will compete against eight-seed Duke, ninth-seed Rutgers and 12th-seed Washington State at 10:36 am.
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"For our seniors, the fourth and fifth-years, the advice is to leave it all out there," McGee said. "When you walk away after your last race you want to know that you did everything that you possibly can in the final race, whether you are finishing first or sixth, you want to make sure that you don't have any regrets because you don't have any more chances to line it back up and race again.
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"We talk about leaving a legacy, which this group has already done with having all three boats make the A/B semifinals. We talked before we came here about finishing within the top 10 as a team and we are on the doorstep of doing that. We have to make sure we have one more good day tomorrow to finish it. If we are able to do that across all of the boats, we will feel really good about ourselves and certainly the seniors and the fifth-years will have made the impact that they wanted to make when they came to Syracuse."
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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 varsity 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.
Syracuse Race Schedule
Sunday, May 30 – Petite FinalsÂ
9:48 am– V4 vs. Duke, Brown, Rutgers, California and Washington State
10:12 am – 2V8 vs. SMU, Brown, California, Rutgers, Wisconsin
10:36 am– V8 vs. Princeton, Alabama, Brown, Ohio State, California
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Varsity 8
C Hannah Murphy
8 Eleanor Alexopoulos
7 Lucy Pearce
6 Meg Varcoe
5 Maddy Horridge
4 Lea Dahn
3 Alena Criss
2 Emma Braun
1 Josie Kiesel
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Second Varsity 8
C Louise Rath
8 Eliza Yager
7 Katharine Ryan
6 Junior Ognovich
5 Kamile Kralikaite
4 Emma Gossman
3 India Aikens
2 Madeleine Holzman-Klima
1 Christie Castorino
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Varsity 4
C Skyler Rivera
4 Heather Stafford
3 Grace Asch
2 Haley Uliasz
1 Luisa Gathmann
For all of the latest information on Syracuse rowing, follow us on Facebook (Syracuse Women's Rowing), Twitter (@RowOrange), and Instagram (@cusewrowing).
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"Today was some good hard racing against the semifinals with the 12 best teams in the country, and we are one of them," said head coach Luke McGee. "We are one of 10 teams that has every boat in the A/B semifinals and that is a real accomplishment in and of itself. It is a challenging turnaround racing twice yesterday and coming back and racing this morning. We certainly want to have our best race of the regatta tomorrow morning. I told the varsity eight the goal is to finish the year with your absolute best race on the last day."
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The 14th-seeded varsity eight will race in the petite finals on Sunday after a sixth-place finish in the A/B semifinals on Saturday. The Orange covered the course in 6:31.507. Top-seed Texas (6:09.073), fifth-seed Michigan (6:13.681), sixth-seed Rutgers (6:14.057) finished first through third, respectively, to advance to the grand final. Seventh-seed Ohio State (6:17.009) and 11th-seed Alabama (6:28.449) advanced to the petite final with Syracuse. They will compete against eighth-seed California, ninth-seed Princeton and 17th-seed Brown at 10:36 am.
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In the second varsity eight A/B semifinal, 11th-seeded second varsity eight finished the race in 6:30.184, advancing to the petite final. First-seed Texas (6:11.518), fourth-seed Stanford (6:13.270) and third-seed Virginia (6:18.844) will race in the grand final after their top-three finishes. The Orange will race in the petite final with eighth-seed Brown (6:24.084) and seventh-seed Rutgers (6:29.968), in addition to ninth-seed SMU, 10th-seed California and 14th-seed Wisconsin at 10:12 am.
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The 11th-seeded varsity four advanced to the petite finals with sixth-place finish in the A/B semifinals. First-seed Stanford (6:53.207), fifth-seed Washington (6:58.751) and third-seed Michigan advanced to the grand final. Seventh-seed Brown (7:13.793) and 14th-seed Cal (7:16.427) also advanced to the petite final with Syracuse and will compete against eight-seed Duke, ninth-seed Rutgers and 12th-seed Washington State at 10:36 am.
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"For our seniors, the fourth and fifth-years, the advice is to leave it all out there," McGee said. "When you walk away after your last race you want to know that you did everything that you possibly can in the final race, whether you are finishing first or sixth, you want to make sure that you don't have any regrets because you don't have any more chances to line it back up and race again.
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"We talk about leaving a legacy, which this group has already done with having all three boats make the A/B semifinals. We talked before we came here about finishing within the top 10 as a team and we are on the doorstep of doing that. We have to make sure we have one more good day tomorrow to finish it. If we are able to do that across all of the boats, we will feel really good about ourselves and certainly the seniors and the fifth-years will have made the impact that they wanted to make when they came to Syracuse."
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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 varsity 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.
Syracuse Race Schedule
Sunday, May 30 – Petite FinalsÂ
9:48 am– V4 vs. Duke, Brown, Rutgers, California and Washington State
10:12 am – 2V8 vs. SMU, Brown, California, Rutgers, Wisconsin
10:36 am– V8 vs. Princeton, Alabama, Brown, Ohio State, California
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Varsity 8
C Hannah Murphy
8 Eleanor Alexopoulos
7 Lucy Pearce
6 Meg Varcoe
5 Maddy Horridge
4 Lea Dahn
3 Alena Criss
2 Emma Braun
1 Josie Kiesel
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Second Varsity 8
C Louise Rath
8 Eliza Yager
7 Katharine Ryan
6 Junior Ognovich
5 Kamile Kralikaite
4 Emma Gossman
3 India Aikens
2 Madeleine Holzman-Klima
1 Christie Castorino
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Varsity 4
C Skyler Rivera
4 Heather Stafford
3 Grace Asch
2 Haley Uliasz
1 Luisa Gathmann
For all of the latest information on Syracuse rowing, follow us on Facebook (Syracuse Women's Rowing), Twitter (@RowOrange), and Instagram (@cusewrowing).
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