Rowing Championships May 30th - June 1st

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WEST WINDSOR, N.J. – The defending NCAA National Champion, No. 2 Texas Rowing, is set for the 2025 NCAA Championships on May 30-June 1 at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. Texas has won three of the last four national crowns and will look to secure the program's fourth overall over the weekend.

Texas earned three top-four seeds for the 2025 NCAA Championships. The Longhorns clinched the No. 2 seed in the First Varsity Eight followed by a pair of No. 4 overall seeds in both the Second Varsity Eight and Second Four.

The Longhorn First Varsity Eight will open the 2025 NCAA Championships at 9 a.m. CT Friday in Heat 2 of the I Eight. The Horns (lane 3) will go up against Oregon State (lane 1), Indiana (lane 2), Yale (lane 4) and Penn (lane 5). The Second Varsity Eight (lane 3) will follow in Heat 4 at 10:12 a.m., squaring off with Boston U (lane 1), Syracuse (lane 2), Yale (lane 4), Dartmouth (lane 5) and Rhode Island (lane 6). The Texas First Four (lane 3) will conclude the day in Heat 4 at 11 a.m., facing Northeastern (lane 1), Harvard (lane 2), Yale (lane 4), Dartmouth (lane 5) and Rhode Island (lane 6).

The top three boats in each race will advance to Saturday's A/B semifinals with the remaining boats advancing to the C/D semifinals. On Saturday, the top three boats in the semifinals will advance to the upper final with the remaining boats headed to the lower final on Sunday. A complete schedule for this weekend can be found here.

All three days will be available to stream on NCAA.com/liveschedule. Live results and heat sheets can be accessed at Regatta Timing.

The team championship is composed of 22 teams. Nine conferences were awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining thirteen slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field. Teams qualifying for the championship are required to field two boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. For the I Eights, II Eights and Fours, all 22 boats will be seeded into four heats.

The Field

Automatic qualifiers: Rhode Island, Stanford, UCF, Washington, Northeastern, Yale, Fairfield, Boston U and Oregon State.

At-large selections: Brown, California, Dartmouth, Harvard, Indiana, Michigan, Penn, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.

Format/Scoring

The NCAA Rowing champion is determined by total points with points assigned based on the finish in each race. The first-place finisher in the First Varsity Eight will receive 66 points with each subsequent finisher collecting three fewer points – 63 for second, 60 for third, etc. The Second Varsity Eight winner will earn 44 points with each successive finisher collecting two fewer points (42 points for second, 40 points for third, etc.) and the Fours winner will receive 22 points, with the runner-up earning 21 points, third receiving 20 points, etc. Ties will be broken based on the teams' result in the First Eight.

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The varsity 8s advance to semifinals.

The varsity 4s and 2nd 8s race later today in the opening round.

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Texas 2nd 8s advance to semifinals. The varsity 4s race in about 30 minutes in opening round.

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Texas varsity 4s advance to semifinals.

Texas has qualified all three boats to semifinals. Semifinals are Saturday morning.

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[chennups]

thanks for the updates!