IRA/USRowing Collegiate Poll
California, Cornell and Stanford Top USRowing’s Fourth Regular Season Coaches Poll
April 22, 2015
University of California moved to the top of USRowing’s fourth regular season varsity men’s eight poll, while Cornell University continued to lead the lightweight men’s varsity eight poll and Stanford University held the top of the lightweight women’s varsity eight poll.
Cal earned nine first-place votes and University of Washington earned six first-place votes to place second. Princeton University was third. Yale University and Harvard University followed in the top five.
In the lightweight men’s varsity eight poll, Cornell scored seven first-place votes to rank first, while Columbia University earned four first-place votes to place second. Princeton followed in third. Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology rounded out the top five.
Stanford continued to hold the top spot in the lightweight women’s varsity eight poll with 10 first-place votes, followed by Princeton in second and Harvard-Radcliffe in third. Boston University and University of Wisconsin rounded out the top five.
Men’s Varsity Eight
Rank | Team (1st Place Votes) | Points | Previous |
1 | University of California (9) | 294 | 2 |
2 | University of Washington (6) | 289 | 1 |
3 | Princeton University | 272 | 3 |
4 | Yale University | 249 | 5 |
5 | Harvard University | 246 | 4 |
6 | Boston University | 198 | 8 |
7 | Northeastern University | 197 | 10 |
8 | University of Pennsylvania | 195 | 7 |
9 | Brown University | 192 | 6 |
10 | Cornell University | 181 | 9 |
11 | United States Naval Academy | 140 | 12 |
12 | Stanford University | 131 | 14 |
13 | Oregon State University | 116 | 17 |
14 | Dartmouth College | 101 | 15 |
15 | University of Wisconsin | 85 | 11 |
16 | Syracuse University | 71 | 13 |
17 | Florida Institute of Technology | 65 | 16 |
18 | Columbia University | 59 | 18 |
19 | Drexel University | 27 | 20 |
20 | College of the Holy Cross | 21 | NR |
(This week’s men’s eight voters: Luke Agnini, Craig Amerkhanian, Wyatt Allen, Scott Alwin, James Barr, Michael Callahan, Chris Clark, Paul Cooke, Brooks Dagman, Robert Friedrich, Jim Granger, Greg Hughes, Todd Kennett, Greg Myhr, John Pojednic.)
Men’s Lightweight Varsity Eight
Rank | Team (1st Place Votes) | Points | Previous |
1 | Cornell University (7) | 197 | 1 |
2 | Columbia University (4) | 194 | 2 |
3 | Princeton University | 179 | 3 |
4 | Harvard University | 166 | 5 |
5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 164 | 7 |
6 | Yale University | 159 | 6 |
7 | University of Delaware | 152 | 4 |
8 | University of Pennsylvania | 133 | T8 |
9 | Dartmouth College | 127 | T8 |
10 | United States Naval Academy | 112 | 10 |
11 | Georgetown University | 101 | 11 |
12 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 98 | 14 |
13 | Purdue University | 97 | 13 |
14 | Mercyhurst University | 61 | 12 |
15 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 29 | 15 |
(This week’s lightweight men’s eight voters: Michiel Bartman, Shawn Bagnall, Andy Card, Martin Crotty, Chuck Crawford, Colin Farrell, Sean Healey, Christopher Kerber, Will Oliver, Nich Lee Parker, Adrian Spracklen.)
Women’s Lightweight Varsity Eight
Rank | Team (1st Place Votes) | Points | Previous |
1 | Stanford University (10) | 200 | 1 |
2 | Princeton University | 186 | 3 |
3 | Harvard-Radcliffe University | 182 | 2 |
4 | Boston University | 172 | 4 |
5 | University of Wisconsin | 160 | 5 |
6 | Villanova University | 149 | 6 |
7 | Georgetown University | 138 | 7 |
8 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 125 | 9 |
9 | Bucknell University | 98 | 8 |
10 | University of Tulsa | 95 | 10 |
11 | Oklahoma City University | 59 | 11 |
12 | Purdue University | 47 | 12 |
13 | Washington State University | 38 | 13 |
14 | University of California | 22 | 15 |
15 | Lafayette University | 16 | 14 |
(This week’s lightweight women’s eight voters: Lou Berl, Kurt Butler, Derek Byrnes, Liza Dickson, Malcolm Doldron, Claire Martin-Doyle, Rodney Mott, Paul Rassam, Lisa Schlenker, Jack St. Clair.)