Clemson Rowing Ranked 17th

April 18, 2001

CLEMSON, S.C. –

The Clemson rowing team dropped to 17th in the third US Rowing/CRCA NCAA Women’s Rowing Poll released today. Brown University remained in the top spot with 22 first-place votes while the University of Michigan ranks second and Princeton University is third.

Clemson is one of two ACC teams ranked in this week’s poll. The University of Virginia dropped from eighth to ninth in the poll. The complete poll is listed below.

Women’s NCAA Division I Varsity Eights

Team (1st-Place Votes)	Points	Previous Rank
1. Brown University (22)	478	1
2. University of Michigan (2)	443	5
3. Princeton University	420	4
4. University of Southern California	410	2
5. University of Washington	404	3
6. Syracuse University	336	7
7. Harvard University	330	6
8. The Ohio State University	272	9
9. University of Virginia	264	8
10. Yale University	246	12
11. University of California at Berkeley	244	10
12. Michigan State University	222	19
13. University of Iowa	203	11
14. Boston University	170	13
15. Rutgers University	137	14
16. University of Notre Dame	103	16
17. Clemson University	80	15
18. University of Wisconsin	69	17
19. Columbia University	53	NR
20. University of Texas	45	18

Others receiving votes: University of Pennsylvania 38, Washington State University 20, Northeastern University 18, Cornell University 17, University of Tulsa 8, Stanford University 5, Dartmouth College 3, and San Diego State University 2.