PENNSAUKEN, N.J. — Princeton captured its ninth consecutive Ivy League women’s rowing championship Sunday morning, winning the Varsity Eight Grand Final to secure the League’s automatic qualifier bid to the NCAA Championship.

The title marks the Tigers’ 23rd all-time Ivy League championship and their 11th in the last 12 championships.

Princeton trailed eventual runner-up Yale after 500 meters but controlled the remainder of the race, finishing in 6:09.972 -- 3.564 seconds ahead of the Bulldogs. Brown, the last team other than Princeton to win the Ivy League title, placed third.

Yale won the team points title for the second consecutive year, finishing with 82 points ahead of Princeton (80) and Brown (64). The Bulldogs recorded two victories and three runner-up finishes across six Grand Finals and did not finish lower than third in any event. Princeton earned the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA Championship by one point over Yale, thanks to victories in the Varsity Eight and 2nd Varsity Eight Grand Finals.

Princeton opened the morning with a win in the Varsity Four C Grand Final, finishing in 7:24.559 to edge Dartmouth by nearly two seconds. Yale followed with its first victory of the day in the Varsity Four B Grand Final, crossing in 7:04.649 -- nearly four seconds ahead of Princeton.

In the 3rd Varsity Eight Grand Final, Brown finished first in 6:35.874, edging Yale by 1.326 seconds. It was the only Grand Final won by a team other than Yale or Princeton and marked Brown’s second 3rd Varsity Eight title at the Ivy League Championships in three years.

The tightest race of the morning came in the Varsity Four Grand Final, where Yale defended its title with a time of 7:05.505, narrowly defeating Harvard by 0.551 seconds. The Bulldogs have now won three of the last four Varsity Four Grand Finals. Harvard’s runner-up finish was its best result of the day.

Princeton matched Yale with its second victory of the morning in the 2nd Varsity Eight Grand Final, finishing in 6:16.309 -- more than two seconds ahead of the Bulldogs. It was the Tigers’ first win in the event at the Ivy League Championships since 2019.

The Tigers closed the championship with three victories, while Yale finished with two and Brown claimed one.

The NCAA Selection Show will be streamed on NCAA.com Tuesday, May 19, at 5 p.m. ET. The League has had at least four teams selected in each of the last four years, highlighted by an NCAA-record-tying six teams at last year’s championship.