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Duke Heads to Sarasota for NCAA Rowing Championships
5/26/2022 9:27:00 PM | Rowing
DURHAM – The No. 14 Duke rowing team is set to make its fourth all-time appearance at the NCAA Championships this weekend at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla.
The Blue Devils were one of 11 at-large teams to earn an NCAA bid, and will meet 11 conference champions at the regatta. The opening heats are slated to begin on Friday, May 27 at 8:12 a.m., while the Finals will conclude on Sunday, May 29 at 10:24 a.m.
HOW TO FOLLOW
RACING SCHEDULE
VARSITY EIGHT
SECOND VARSITY EIGHT
VARSITY FOUR
FOURTH NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS APPEARANCE
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The Blue Devils were one of 11 at-large teams to earn an NCAA bid, and will meet 11 conference champions at the regatta. The opening heats are slated to begin on Friday, May 27 at 8:12 a.m., while the Finals will conclude on Sunday, May 29 at 10:24 a.m.
HOW TO FOLLOW
- Each day of racing will be streamed live on ncaa.com/rowing, with coverage beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday, 8:10 a.m. on Saturday and 8:10 a.m. on Sunday. Friday's repechage races will also be streamed at 4:10 p.m.
- Live results will be available after each race at regattatiming.com.
RACING SCHEDULE
- Each boat class – Varsity Eight, Second Varsity Eight and Varsity Four – will compete in four heats in the morning on Friday, with the top two from each heat moving on to Saturday's semifinals. The remaining boats will compete in a repechage on Friday afternoon to determine the final four semifinalists in each racing class.
- Duke's Varsity Eight crew, which enters the regatta as the No. 15 seed in its class, is lined up in the second V8 heat at 9:12 a.m. The Blue Devils will race against California, Gonzaga, Michigan and Princeton.
- The Blue Devils' Second Varsity Eight, slated as the No. 14 seed in its class, will race in the third 2V8 heat at 10:12 a.m. Duke takes on Boston University, Northeastern, Penn, Virginia and Washington.
- The Duke Varsity Four, entering as the No. 12 seed and coming off a silver medal at the ACC Championship, will get its NCAA racing underway in the fourth V4 heat at 11:12 a.m. The Blue Devils' opponents in the V4 include Gonzaga, Ohio State, Rhode Island, SMU and Washington.
- Saturday's semifinals will take place from 8:12-10:24 a.m., and will determine the lineups for the Finals on Sunday. Final races once again begin at 8:12 a.m. with the Fours D Final (places 19-22) and conclude with the top six boats in the Varsity Eight at 10:24 a.m.
- An awards ceremony will be held following Sunday's racing schedule.
VARSITY EIGHT
- Duke's V8 boat has registered six wins in 14 total races this season, including a three-race sweep at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invite in March that garnered ACC Crew of the Week honors.
- The Blue Devils claimed bronze at the ACC Championship, marking the third consecutive season that Duke's top boat earned a spot on the podium.
- Two members of the V8 lineup – junior Megan Lee and senior Sydney Johnson – were named All-ACC. Lee picked up first-team honors while Johnson was tapped to the second team.
- The projected V8 lineup is Anya Hasija (coxswain), Lauren Sizemore (stroke), Amelia Shunk, Sydney Johnson, Ella Harris, Megan Lee, Kathryn Nash, Allison Carr and Gabriella Salvati (bow).
SECOND VARSITY EIGHT
- The Duke Second Varsity Eight stormed out of the gates this season, winning each of its first seven races and eight of the first nine. The Blue Devils picked up a total of nine first-place finishes.
- The 2V8 was named the ACC Crew of the Week twice in April. The first honor came after the crew outraced a pair of top-10 ranked opponents in Michigan (No. 8 seed in 2V8 this weekend) and Ohio State (No. 10 seed) at the Big Ten/ACC Double Dual in Columbus, Ohio. It received the award again on April 20 after winning two races at the Big Ten Invite, its first trip to Sarasota this season.
- With a bronze-medal performance on Lake Hartwell two weeks ago, the Duke 2V8 has placed in the top four at the ACC Championship in each of the last six seasons.
- The projected 2V8 lineup is Ithika Senthilnathan (coxswain), Brenna Morley (stroke), Caeley Tierney, Grace Butero, Erin Heyeck, Lily Abbott, Olivia Hunt, Emilie Lijesen and Mollie Nicol (bow).
VARSITY FOUR
- Duke heads into the national regatta as the No. 12 seed in the Varsity Four boat class after a spring season that included eight total wins and a silver medal at the ACC Championship.
- The V4 opened the 2022 campaign with wins in each of its first four races, including a clean sweep at the Oak Ridge Cardinal Invite.
- The crew also had a strong showing at the Lake Wheeler Invitational on April 22-23, outracing NCAA entrants Syracuse (No. 16 seed) and Boston University (No. 19 seed).
- At the ACC Championship, Duke's V4 recorded a time of 7:12.901, narrowly falling to Virginia at 7:10.892. The Blue Devils have finished in the top two in the Grand Finals at each of the last four ACC Championship regattas, including a gold-medal performance in 2019.
- The projected V4 lineup is Audrey Kline (coxswain), Meera Chakrabarti, Rivca Chaver, Sydney Cikovic and Stella Haley.
FOURTH NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS APPEARANCE
- Duke is set to make its fourth all-time appearance at the NCAA Championships and third consecutive this weekend in Sarasota. Each of the team's three previous appearances (2016, 2019, 2021) came under head coach Megan Cooke Carcagno.
- Duke is one of 14 programs to earn three straight NCAA Championship bids, joining Brown, California, Gonzaga, Michigan, Northeastern, Ohio State, Princeton, Rhode Island, Rutgers, Stanford, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
- The Blue Devils netted a program-record 55 points at the 2021 NCAA Championships to finish 16th overall. Duke placed fourth in the Varsity Eight C Final, first in the Second Varsity Eight C Final and third in the Varsity Four Petite Final.
- The 2V8's win in the C Final marked the third time Duke has posted a first-place finish at NCAA's. The 2V8 also claimed the C Final's top time at the 2016 regatta, when the Varsity Four additionally won its C Final with a time of 7:22.311.
- Duke finished 16th in the team standings with 47 points in 2019 and 17th overall with 45 points in 2016.
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