Michigan
NCAA Championships
Wolverines Set for NCAA Championships in New Jersey
5/28/2025 2:59:00 PM | Rowing
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 9-ranked University of Michigan rowing team will compete in the NCAA Championships this Friday through Sunday (May 30-June 1) on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. Following U-M's third-place team finish at the Big Ten Championships, the program received an at-large selection to compete at this weekend's championships. The three-day format will consist of heats on Friday (May 30), A/B and C/D semifinals on Saturday (May 31), and Grand/Petite finals on Sunday (June 1).
Scoring System, Format
The NCAA rowing team champion is determined by total points earned in three different boat classes (1V8, 2V8, 1V4). Each boat class also competes for a national title. The top three finishing boats in each of Friday's heats, consisting of five or six boats each, will advance to the A/B semifinals; all other boats will move on to C/D semifinals. Those semifinal races will determine which boats compete in Sunday's (June 1) Grand Final (semifinal finishing boats 1-6), Petite Final (7-12), C Final (13-18) and D Final (19-22).
| Scoring System | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event/Place | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 1V8 | 66 | 63 | 60 | 57 | 54 | 51 | 48 | 45 | 42 | 39 | 36 | 33 | 30 | 27 | 24 | 21 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| 2V8 | 44 | 42 | 40 | 38 | 36 | 34 | 32 | 30 | 28 | 26 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| 1V4 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Notes
• The NCAA Championship regatta takes place on Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J., for the fourth time overall and the first since 2017, when the Wolverines finished third overall. The Garden State has hosted the NCAA's season-concluding event on seven occasions, in locations including West Windsor, Pennsauken and Cherry Hill.
• All three days of the NCAA Championship will be streamed live for free on NCAA.com, and race results can be found at regattatiming.com.
• Michigan's first eight will race against Syracuse, Brown, Stanford and Harvard in Friday's heats. U-M and Syracuse raced in the first event of the season (March 22), with the Wolverines edging out the Orange.
• The second eight will race against Northeastern, UCF, Tennessee, Princeton and Fairfield. It will be the boat's second time competing against Virginia and Tennessee.
• The first four will compete with Virginia, Stanford, Tennessee and Indiana, a familiar heat. The 1V4 beat Virginia in Columbus (March 29), raced Tennessee twice at the Big Ten Invitational (April 18-19) and beat Indiana at the Big Ten Championships (May 18).
• Michigan has placed among the top 12 nationally for 12 straight years and has never finished outside of the top 13 at NCAAs.
• At last year's NCAA Championships, U-M qualified for three petite finals and took first place in the 2V8 and 1V4 events (seventh overall). Michigan finished third in the 1V8 petite final to earn a ninth-place overall finish. Together, the Wolverines collected 90 points and a seventh-place team finish.
• Returning athletes with NCAA experience from the 2024 championship (13 total) include coxswains Logan Roeder and Lillie Gregory and rowers Autumn Crowe, Katie Easton, Gabrielle Graves, Abby Hathaway, Sara Houben, Gracie Landefeld, Madeleine Lauriault, Amy Newton, Jana Peachey, Carla Russell and Madeson Scott.
• Following its third-place team finish at the Big Ten Championships (May 17-18), four U-M athletes received All-Big Ten honors: Easton (first team), Graves (first team), Newton (second team), and Leia Till (second team).
Michigan Race Schedule (Friday Heats)
Time -- Event (Heat, Lane)
(all times a.m. and subject to change)
9:48 -- 1V8 (Heat 1, Lane 4)
11:00 -- 2V8 (Heat 3, Lane 5)
11:24 -- 1V4 (Heat 1, Lane 2)
Players Mentioned
