Clemson Ranked 23rd in Latest Poll

May 2, 2002

CLEMSON, SC – The Clemson rowing team is ranked 23rd according to the 2002 US Rowing/CRCA NCAA Women’s Rowing Poll released yesterday. This is the fifth consecutive week that Clemson has been nationally ranked. The University of Washington tallied 21 first-place votes to claim the top spot while Brown University ranks second and the University of Michigan is third.

Clemson is one of three ACC teams ranked in this week’s poll. The University of Virginia is ranked 12th, while Duke is 20th. The complete poll is listed below.

Women's NCAA Division I Varsity Eights Team (1st-Place Votes)        Points1.  University of Washington(21)                                  4962.  Brown University  (4)                                            4793.  University of Michigan                                           4324.  Princeton University                                             4125.  Ohio State University                                               3936.  Yale University                                                     3777.  University of California at Berkeley                             3128.  Harvard University                                               3019.  University of Southern California                               30010. Syracuse University                                              24911. Stanford University                                              24412. University of Virginia                                           23213. University of Notre Dame                                         19514. Michigan State University                                        18515. Northeastern University                                          16216. Oregon State University                                          13417. Washington State University                                      10218. Cornell University                                               8719. Boston University                                                 7820. Duke University                                                   40Others receiving votes:Columbia University 17,University of Texas 13, Clemson University 5,University of Minnesota 2,Boston College 1,Dartmouth College 1 and University of Iowa 1.