Friday, May 30
Windsor, N.J.
Oregon State
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NCAA DI Rowing Championship
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Beaver Women’s Rowing Set for 2025 NCAA Championship
May 27, 2025 | Women's Rowing
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. – Oregon State women's rowing will compete in the NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Championship this weekend, which takes place on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.
The team championship is composed of 22 teams. Nine conferences were awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining thirteen slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field; OSU earned its spot as an automatic qualifier after winning the 2025 West Coast Conference Championship on May 17.
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.
Oregon State is in lane one, heat two for each race on Friday, which puts the team in action at 7 a.m. Pacific / 10 a.m. Eastern for the varsity eight, 7:48 / 10:48 for the second eight and 8:36 / 11:24 in the fours race.
Oregon State was last in action on May 18 when the team won the 2025 West Coast Conference Championship in commanding fashion.
Across the two-day regatta at Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif., Beaver boats won every single race, several of which included 10-plus second margins of victory. Overcoming an hour long delay due to breakage in another program's boat, the Oregon State varsity eight entered the final race needing to finish within one place of Gonzaga to clinch, and the boat went on to row all 2,000 meters more than nine seconds quicker than the Zags to seal the program's first ever conference championship.
OSU also swept the All-WCC awards, as Rhi Loughnan was named WCC Rower of the Year, Linda Weitmann won Newcomer of the Year, Taylor Denger was Coxswain of the Year, and Head Coach Michael Eichler was named the WCC's Coach of the Year; Loughnan along with Tulla Angeley, Giulia Clerici and Charlotte Lightfoot also earned a spot on the All-WCC Team.
This weekend's racing will mark the team's first appearance at the NCAA Championship since 2022, when the Beavers' historic season ended with a 14th place finish in both the first and second eight and a 16th place finish for the varsity four, which was the program's highest finish since 1999.
Including this year's appearance, OSU has now made six appearances, having previously gone in 2022 (14th), 2009 (15th), 2000 (15th), 1999 (13th) and 1997 (ninth); the Beavers did qualify in 2020 but the championship event was canceled due to COVID-19.
OUR MISSION:
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
The team championship is composed of 22 teams. Nine conferences were awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining thirteen slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field; OSU earned its spot as an automatic qualifier after winning the 2025 West Coast Conference Championship on May 17.
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.
Oregon State is in lane one, heat two for each race on Friday, which puts the team in action at 7 a.m. Pacific / 10 a.m. Eastern for the varsity eight, 7:48 / 10:48 for the second eight and 8:36 / 11:24 in the fours race.
Oregon State was last in action on May 18 when the team won the 2025 West Coast Conference Championship in commanding fashion.
Across the two-day regatta at Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif., Beaver boats won every single race, several of which included 10-plus second margins of victory. Overcoming an hour long delay due to breakage in another program's boat, the Oregon State varsity eight entered the final race needing to finish within one place of Gonzaga to clinch, and the boat went on to row all 2,000 meters more than nine seconds quicker than the Zags to seal the program's first ever conference championship.
OSU also swept the All-WCC awards, as Rhi Loughnan was named WCC Rower of the Year, Linda Weitmann won Newcomer of the Year, Taylor Denger was Coxswain of the Year, and Head Coach Michael Eichler was named the WCC's Coach of the Year; Loughnan along with Tulla Angeley, Giulia Clerici and Charlotte Lightfoot also earned a spot on the All-WCC Team.
This weekend's racing will mark the team's first appearance at the NCAA Championship since 2022, when the Beavers' historic season ended with a 14th place finish in both the first and second eight and a 16th place finish for the varsity four, which was the program's highest finish since 1999.
Including this year's appearance, OSU has now made six appearances, having previously gone in 2022 (14th), 2009 (15th), 2000 (15th), 1999 (13th) and 1997 (ninth); the Beavers did qualify in 2020 but the championship event was canceled due to COVID-19.
OUR MISSION:
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
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