Women's Rowing

Four Crews Ready for NCAA Women's Rowing Championship at Indianapolis Rowing Center

PRINCETON, N.J. – Four Ivies will represent the Ivy League at the 2019 NCAA Women’s Rowing Championship for the 22nd time in League history. The 2019 NCAA Championship is set for May 31-June 2 at the Indianapolis Rowing Center. 
 
Princeton, which won its fourth straight Ivy League Championship, earn the League’s automatic qualification, while Brown, Harvard and Yale earn three of the 11 at-large bids.
 
The Ivy League’s four teams ranks second among all conferences, trailing just the Big 10 (5). The League’s will send four teams to the NCAA for the 13th time and the first since 2015
 
Princeton and Brown have made the championship field as a team every year since the championship began in 1997. Washington is the only other program to have competed at all previous 22 NCAA Championships. Harvard and Yale are making its 18th team appearance. 
 
The 2019 NCAA championship regatta features 23 teams for the fifth-straight year. Eleven conferences were awarded automatic qualification and the remaining 11 slots were filled with at-large selections. Teams qualifying for the championship as an automatic qualifier or as an at-large are required to field three boats -- first varsity eight, second varsity eight and varsity four. All 22 teams are seeded into four heats in each of the V8, 2V8 and V4 competitions.

The following schools are set to participate in the 2019 championships:
 
UCF
Rhode Island
Virginia
Texas
Michigan
Northeastern
Marist
Princeton
Washington
Navy
Gonzaga
Brown
California
Duke
Harvard
Indiana
Iowa
Ohio State
Rutgers
Stanford
Wisconsin
Yale