Women's Rowing

Three ACC Teams Selected to Compete in 2022 NCAA Women's Rowing Championship

GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – For the second consecutive year, three Atlantic Coast Conference teams have been selected to compete in the 2022 NCAA Women’s Rowing Championship. ACC Champion Virginia claimed the league’s automatic bid, while Duke and Syracuse were at-large selections.

The championship will convene May 27-29 at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Florida, with University of Central Florida and Suncoast Aquatic Nature Center Associates, serving as hosts. The team championship is composed of 22 teams.

Ten conferences were awarded automatic qualification and the remaining 12 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field. Teams qualifying for the championship are required to field two boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. For the I Eights, II Eights and Fours, all 22 boats will be seeded into four heats.

Virginia, which captured its 12th straight ACC Rowing Championship last Saturday at Lake Hartwell in Clemson, South Carolina, earned its 15th consecutive invitation to the NCAA Rowing Championship and 24th in the last 25 years the event has been held.

The Cavaliers garnered the No. 10 seed in the Varsity Four, No. 11 in the Second Varsity Eight and No. 13 in the Varsity Eight.

Syracuse earned an at-large selection for the fifth time in six racing seasons (2016, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022; 2020 season canceled due to COVID-19). The Orange are the No. 12 seed in the Second Varsity Eight, No. 14 in the Varsity Eight and No. 16 in the Varsity Four.

Duke secured its fourth at-large bid to the NCAA Championship in program history and is the No. 12 seed in the Varsity Four, No. 14 in the Second Varsity Eight and No. 15 in the Varsity Eight.

The NCAA Rowing champion is determined by total points with points assigned based on the finish in each race. The first-place finisher in the First Varsity Eight will receive 66 points with each subsequent finisher collecting three fewer points – 63 for second, 60 for third, etc. The Second Varsity Eight winner will earn 44 points with each successive finisher collecting two fewer points (42 points for second, 40 points for third, etc.) and the Fours winner will receive 22 points, with the runner-up earning 21 points, third receiving 20 points, etc. Ties will be broken based on the teams' result in the First Eight.