Clemson Rowing Ranked 18th

May 3, 2001

CLEMSON, S.C. – 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.