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Women's Rowing
Rowing Achieves Highest National Ranking Ever
Notre Dame is 11th after finishing fifth at San Diego Crew Classic.
April 11, 2002 Notre Dame, Ind. - The Notre Dame rowing team is ranked 11th in the latest US Rowing/CRCA poll released yesterday. The No.-11 ranking is the highest mark ever in the history of the young program, besting the No.-14 ranking the Irish opened the season at in 2001. The Irish, who were ranked 20th in the nation last week, made the biggest leap of any team in the poll this week after placing fifth in the grand final at the San Diego Crew Classic in San Diego, Calif., last weekend. The Irish recorded faster times than four teams ranked ahead of them last week at the Crew Classic, including No. 6 Virginia, No. 9 USC, No. 14 Texas and No. 19 Oregon State. Washington remained atop the rankings this week with 21 first-place votes and 496 points after winning the Jessop-Whittier Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic last weekend. Brown received the remaining four first-place votes and has 477 points. Ohio State is third with 450 points, while California moved up seven places and is ranked fourth with 388 points. Notre Dame travels to Indianapolis, Ind., on Saturday for the Indiana Cup, where they will compete against Indiana, Purdue and Eastern Michigan. US Rowing/CRCA Rowing Poll (April 10, 2002) Team Points LW 1. Washington (21) 496 1 2. Brown (4) 477 2 3. Ohio State 450 3 4. California 388 11 5. Yale 373 5 6. Princeton 365 4 7. Stanford 310 13 8. Syracuse 304 7 9. Harvard 299 10 10. Michigan 297 8 11. Notre Dame 271 20 12. Virginia 261 6 13. USC 151 9 14. Michigan State 132 12 15. Washington State 112 NR 16. Duke 107 17 17. Boston U. 103 15 18. Oregon State 86 19 19. Northeastern 79 16 20. Texas 59 14Other receiving votes: Iowa 29, Cornell 35, Columbia 26, Clemson 16, Wisconsin 7, Boston College 3, Minnesota 3, Massachusetts 1 |
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