Clemson Rowing Ranked 18th

May 3, 2001

CLEMSON, SC – The Clemson rowing team dropped one spot to 18th in the fifth US Rowing/CRCA NCAA Women’s Rowing Poll released yesterday. Brown University continues to hold the top spot with 24 of 25 possible 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 remained at 14th 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 (24)	499	1
2. University of Michigan (1)	468	2
3. Princeton University	439	3
4. University of Southern California	416	4
5. University of Washington	405	5
6. Syracuse University	371	6
7. Yale University	349	7
8. The Ohio State University	320	9
9. Harvard University	289	8
10. University of California at Berkeley	242	10
11. Michigan State University	241	12
12. Boston University	235	11
13. University of Iowa	186	13
14. University of Virginia	181	14
15. Rutgers University	180	15
16. University of Notre Dame	92	18
17. University of Wisconsin	81	16
18. Clemson University	72	17
19. Cornell University	54	NR
20. Washington State University	42	20

Others receiving votes: University of Pennsylvania 25, University of Texas 24, Northeastern University 12, Columbia University 9, Stanford University 9, Oregon State University 3, University of Tulsa 3, George Washington University 2, University of Miami1.