Clemson Rowing Team Ranked 26th

April 5, 2001

CLEMSON, S.C. – The Clemson rowing team is ranked 26th according to the first 2001 US Rowing/CRCA NCAA Women’s Rowing Poll released yesterday. Brown University tallied 19 first-place votes to claim the top spot while the University of Washington ranks second and Princeton University is third.

Clemson is one of two ACC teams ranked in this week’s poll. The University of Virginia is ranked 12th. The complete poll is listed below.

Women’s NCAA Division I Varsity Eights Team (1st-Place Votes) Points 1. Brown University (19) 475 2. University of Washington (5) 446 3. Princeton University 421 4. University of Michigan 381 5. Harvard University 328 6. Syracuse University 316 7t. University of California at Berkeley 313 7t. The Ohio State University 313 9. University of Southern California 298 10. Yale University 283 11. Boston University 272 12. University of Virginia 228 13. Rutgers University 143 14. University of Notre Dame 121 15. University of Iowa 118 16. Michigan State University 117 17. University of Wisconsin 88 18. University of Texas 55 19. Cornell University 54 20. Oregon State University 51

Others receiving votes: University of Pennsylvania 50, Northeastern University 30, Stanford University 30, Washington State University 29, Dartmouth College 25, Clemson University 23, University of Tulsa 12, University of Massachusetts 7, San Diego State University 6, Columbia University 4, and University of Miami 3.