Texas Rowing #4 in preseason poll

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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Rowing is ranked at No. 4 in the 2024 Preseason Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll, the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association announced on Wednesday. It marks the seventh consecutive year that Texas has been ranked among the top-four in the initial poll and ninth-straight among the top eight.

The Longhorns finished fourth at the 2023 NCAA Championships, earning a victory in the Four, while the I Eight placed fifth and the II Eight finished sixth.

Defending national champion Stanford is ranked first in this year's preseason poll, followed by Washington sitting second and Princeton third.

The eight-time defending Big 12 Conference champions return a trio of First Eight rowers in two-time first-team All-American Anna Jensen, Al-Big 12 Conference honoree Etta Carpenderand Lanie Nitsch. Texas also returns three of the four rowers from the championship Four boat in Abby Dawson, Anna Garrison and Cassandre Korvink-Kucinski. Back from last year's II Eight boat are Allie Alton, Amber Harwood, Sue Holderness, Taryn Kooyers, Marg Van der Wal and Nadja Yaroschuk, as well as coxswain Carly Legenzoski.

Texas will open the season in California on April 6-7 at the San Diego Crew Classic. Racing will take place at Mission Bay Park on Fiesta-Crown Point Shores in San Diego.

Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll – 2024 Preseason Ranking – March 6
1. Stanford
2. Washington
3. Princeton
4. TEXAS
5. Yale
6. Brown
7. Pennsylvania
8. California
9. Michigan
10. Virginia
11. Syracuse
12. Ohio State
13. Duke
14. Rutgers
15. USC
16. Indiana
17. Tennessee
18. SMU
19. Harvard
20. Oregon State