No. 11 Duke Set For Lake Wheeler Invitational

DURHAM – The No. 11 Duke rowing team is set to co-host the Lake Wheeler Invitational alongside North Carolina from April 22-23 in Raleigh, N.C.

Sixteen total teams will compete at Lake Wheeler, including seven ACC programs – Duke, UNC, Boston College, Clemson, Louisville, Miami and Syracuse – as well as Boston University, Bucknell, Central Florida, Georgetown, Kansas, Navy, Oklahoma, Penn and Temple.

RACING SCHEDULE

Friday will feature two sessions of racing, each with three races in the Varsity Eight, Second Varsity Eight, Varsity Four, Second Varsity Four and Third Varsity Eight.
The first set will be held from 12-3 p.m. ET, before the late afternoon session from 4-7 p.m.
The regatta will wrap up Saturday morning with a final session from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Duke's 3V8 is set to lead off the weekend for the Blue Devils when it takes on Syracuse, Georgetown and Kansas at 12:12 p.m. on Friday.
The Duke 2V4, V4, 2V8 and V8 will follow in that order, with the V8 concluding the first session at 2:48 p.m.
The 3V8 gets the second set started for Duke at 4 p.m., followed by the Blue Devils' 2V4 at 4:36 p.m., the V4 at 5:12 p.m., the 2V8 at 5:48 p.m. and the V8 at 6:24 p.m.
Duke is first in action on Saturday in the third 3V8 race at 9:24 a.m. Four Blue Devil boats compete before the V8 closes out the regatta at 12 p.m.
The Blue Devils will also field a 3V4 crew that is set to participate in the 2V4 races in each session.

HOW TO FOLLOW

Results following each race will be available at regattatiming.com.
Duke's racing results at the end of each session will also be available on the Duke Rowing Twitter account.

RANKED COMPETITION

The 11th-ranked Blue Devils will be one of three ranked teams at this weekend's regatta alongside No. 9 Penn and No. 15 Syracuse.
Duke will race against the Orange in each boat class in the first Friday session, before taking on the Quakers on Saturday.
Penn did not hold a spot on the Pocock/CRCA national poll until March 30 and vaulted into the top 10 with a win at the Doc Hosea Invitational and second-place showings at the Connell Cup and the Pac-12 Invitational.
Syracuse has netted numerous impressive results, including three wins at the Saratoga Duels and two first-place finishes in the heats at the Doc Hosea Invitational.
Boston University, Clemson, Louisville, Navy and UCF are each receiving votes in the Pocock/CRCA poll.

LAST TIME AT LAKE WHEELER

Duke claimed the Pocock Cup for the second consecutive season with 83 team points at the Lake Wheeler Invitational on April 24, 2021.
After placing first in four heats on the opening Friday, Duke closed with three wins in the finals of the V8, 2V4 and 3V8 to narrowly edge out Clemson (82 points) in the team standings.
The V4 provided perhaps the most entertaining race of the weekend, as Duke was beat out by Clemson by just 0.464 seconds after the two boats were side-by-side entering the final 750-meter stretch.
With another win in the 2V8, the Tigers grabbed control of the standings before Duke's V8 outraced Clemson by just over three seconds to clinch the regatta.
The event also featured co-host North Carolina as well as Boston College, Miami, Stetson, UCF and the Wisconsin Lightweights.
Duke won the inaugural Lake Wheeler Invitational in April of 2019 with 99 points, collecting four consecutive victories in the final races.

LAST TIME OUT

Duke swept the first racing session on Friday and earned two more wins on Saturday at the Big Ten Invite in Sarasota, Fla., last weekend.
The Blue Devils' Varsity Eight, Second Varsity Eight, Varsity Four and Second Varsity Four outraced Iowa, Minnesota and Notre Dame in the morning session, before each boat finished second to No. 2 Stanford in the afternoon slate.
On Saturday, Duke's 2V8 and V4 claimed wins over No. 18 Indiana and No. 19 Tennessee as well as Minnesota.
Duke was one of three programs in the 16-team field that finished the regatta with six or more wins.
The 2V8 was named the ACC Crew of the Week for the second time this season. The boat has finished first in eight out of nine races in the 2022 spring campaign.

DUKE IN THE RANKINGS

The seventh Pocock/CRCA poll of the spring season was released Wednesday with the Blue Devils ranked No. 11 nationally.
Duke has held a spot in the top 20 in each of the last 28 released polls dating back to April of 2019.
The Blue Devils are the highest ranked ACC team this week, leading No. 13 Virginia and No. 15 Syracuse.
Duke was ranked for the entirety of last season, concluding the spring at No. 16.

Attendance at the Lake Wheeler Invitational is free for spectators. Parking at Lake Wheeler on Friday and Saturday is $20 per vehicle. There will multiple food trucks on site each day.

The Lake Wheeler Invitational will be Duke's final regular-season competition of the spring season. Following the regatta, the Blue Devils turn their attention to the ACC Championship held May 13-14 in Clemson, S.C.

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No. 11 Duke Set For Lake Wheeler Invitational

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