Syracuse women’s rowing jumps to No. 11 in 10th CRCA Poll
Syracuse heads into the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships as the No. 11 team in the country and the third-best team in the conference behind Stanford and Cal. Daily Orange File Photo
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Syracuse women’s rowing rose from No. 12 to No. 11 in the Pocock Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Poll, which was released Tuesday. It swapped places with now-No. 12 Harvard, after it jumped SU last week, even though both teams haven’t raced in over a week.
Tuesday’s rankings marked the final poll before the Atlantic Coast Conference Championships this upcoming weekend, where the Orange will face a plethora of ranked schools on Lake Hartwell in Clemson, South Carolina. Seven of the conference’s 12 programs, including SU, are in this week’s poll — No. 1 Stanford, No. 9 California, No. 13 Virginia, No. 18 Duke, No. 22 Clemson and No. 24 North Carolina.
The Orange already raced two ACC foes — the Cardinal and the Golden Bears — earlier this season at the Redwood Shores Challenge. SU lost all eight races against the programs but finished within approximately three-and-a-half seconds of Cal in the two squads’ four head-to-head contests.
Syracuse was assigned the No. 3 seed for all five races at the conference championships. The Cardinal and Golden Bears earned the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, respectively. In Clemson, SU hopes to become the second team in ACC history, after Virginia, to win back-to-back titles after capturing its first in program history last season.
