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| Sport | College rowing |
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| Founded | 1997 |
| No. of teams | 22 |
| Country | United States |
| Most recent champion(s) | Texas (3) |
| Most titles | Brown (7) |
| Official website | NCAA.com |
The NCAA Division I Rowing Championship is a rowing championship held by the NCAA for Division I women's heavyweight (or openweight) collegiate crews. The inaugural National Championship was held in 1997 for the top 16 crews in the country, located at Lake Natoma, Sacramento, California. In 2002, the NCAA added championships for Division II and Division III. All races are 2,000 metres (6,562 ft) long. The NCAA does not sponsor men's rowing (both heavyweight and lightweight) and women's lightweight rowing championships.[1]
Automatic qualifier spots
Eleven rowing conferences each get one Automatic Qualifier spot by winning their conference points championship, except for the Ivy League whose Automatic Qualifier goes to the Varsity Eight winner. There are another 11 At-Large spots.
Format
The NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Championships have three events (I Eights, II Eights, Fours), and twenty-two teams compete. Eleven teams are selected through automatic qualification based on conference results. An additional eleven at-large teams are selected by the NCAA Rowing Committee. In previous years an additional, four at-large I Eights are selected. As of 2009 all bids must be full teams.
Teams are awarded points by their final placing in each event. The NCAA Champion is determined by the team which accumulates the most points. Since 2013, the winner of the I-Eights event gets 66 points, and the team that places second gets 63 points, third gets 60, etc. For the II-Eights there are 44 points for the winner, and the points obtained go down in steps of two for each next spot in the final ranking. For the event with Fours, the winner gets 22 points, and the subsequent finishers get 21, 20, 19, etc. When teams are tied for points after the three events, the NCAA champion is determined by the team with the higher placing in the I Eight event.
At-large participants in the championships are selected by the NCAA Division I Women’s Rowing Committee. The following criteria are used in selecting teams and individual boats:
- Regional championship results.
- Regional ranking.
- Late season performance.
- Head-to-head results.
- Results versus team already selected.
- Results versus common opponents.
- Results versus regionally ranked team.
Champions
Results
| NCAA Division I Rowing Championships | ||||||||||
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| Year | Site (Host Team) |
Team Results | Individual Results | |||||||
| Champion | Score | Runner-Up | Score | Fours | II Eights | I Eights | ||||
| 1997 | Rancho Cordova, CA | Washington | 201 | Princeton | 184 | Brown | Princeton | Washington | ||
| 1998 | Gainesville, GA | Washington (2) | 91 | Princeton | 85 | USC | Virginia | Washington | ||
| 1999 | Rancho Cordova, CA | Brown | 56 | Virginia | 56 | Washington | Virginia | Brown | ||
| 2000 | Camden, NJ | Brown (2) | 59 | Washington | 55 | Washington | Brown | Brown | ||
| 2001 | Gainesville, GA | Washington (3) | 58 | Michigan | 53 | Washington | Michigan | Washington | ||
| 2002 | Indianapolis, IN | Brown (3) | 67 | Washington | 63 | Brown | Washington | Washington | ||
| 2003 | Harvard | 59 | Brown | 57 | Brown | Brown | Harvard | |||
| 2004 | Gold River, CA | Brown (4) | 70 | Yale | 58 | Virginia | Brown | Brown | ||
| 2005 | California | 67 | Virginia | 63 | Virginia | Virginia | California | |||
| 2006 | West Windsor, NJ | California (2) | 66 | Brown | 66 | Brown | Brown | Princeton | ||
| 2007 | Oak Ridge, TN | Brown (5) | 58 | Virginia | 54 | Virginia | Minnesota | Yale | ||
| 2008 | Gold River, CA | Brown (6) | 67 | Washington | 59 | Washington | Brown | Yale | ||
| 2009 | Cherry Hill, NJ | Stanford | 88 | California | 85 | Clemson | Yale | Stanford | ||
| 2010 | Gold River, CA | Virginia | 87 | California | 82 | Virginia | Brown | Yale | ||
| 2011 | Brown (7) | 85 | Stanford | 85 | California | Stanford | Princeton | |||
| 2012 | West Windsor, NJ | Virginia (2) | 87 | Michigan | 82 | Ohio State | Michigan | Virginia | ||
| 2013 | Indianapolis, IN | Ohio State | 126 | California | 124 | Ohio State | Ohio State | California | ||
| 2014 | Ohio State (2) | 126 | California | 118 | California | Ohio State | Ohio State | |||
| 2015 | Gold River, CA | Ohio State (3) | 126 | California | 114 | Virginia | Brown | Ohio State | ||
| 2016 | California (3) | 129 | Ohio State | 126 | Ohio State | California | Ohio State | |||
| 2017 | West Windsor, NJ | Washington (4) | 132 | California | 123 | Washington | Washington | Washington | ||
| 2018 | Sarasota, FL | California (4) | 130 | Washington | 128 | California | Washington | California | ||
| 2019 | Indianapolis, IN | Washington (5) | 132 | Texas | 125 | Washington | Washington | Washington | ||
| 2020 | Oak Ridge, TN | Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic | ||||||||
| 2021 | Sarasota, FL | Texas | 126 | Stanford | 126 | Washington | Washington | Texas | ||
| 2022 | Texas (2) | 124 | Stanford | 124 | Princeton | Yale | Texas | |||
| 2023 | Pennsauken, NJ (Temple) |
Stanford (2) | 129 | Washington | 120 | Texas | Stanford | Stanford | ||
| 2024 | Bethel, OH (Marietta) |
Texas (3) | 130 | Stanford | 127 | Texas | Stanford | Texas | ||
| 2025 | West Windsor, NJ (Ivy & MAAC) |
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| 2026 | Gainesville, GA (North Georgia) |
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Team titles
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1| Team | # | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Brown | 7 | 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011 |
| Washington | 5 | 1997, 1998, 2001, 2017, 2019 |
| California | 4 | 2005, 2006, 2016, 2018 |
| Ohio State | 3 | 2013, 2014, 2015 |
| Texas | 2021, 2022, 2024 | |
| Virginia | 2 | 2010, 2012 |
| Stanford | 2009, 2023 | |
| Harvard | 1 | 2003 |
Appearances by team
Key
- CH National Champion
- RU National Runner-up
- Numbers indicate the placement of the team in that tournament beyond second