IRA/USRowing Collegiate Poll
University of Washington Tops 2016 USRowing Preseason Coaches Poll
March 24, 2016
Washington starts the new season as the coaches’ choice for the top program in the country in the USRowing preseason varsity men’s poll. With five first-place votes to its favor, the Huskies race the university's 115 Class Day Regatta on Saturday as the team to beat in 2016.
Voted second by the 12 men’s coaches that participated in the preseason poll was Yale University (three first-place votes). Yale lost to Washington in the IRA semifinal, but came back to defeat them at the 2015 Henley Royal Regatta in the final of the Ladies’ Challenge Plate. Princeton University and the University of California (three first-place votes) tied for third place. Harvard University rounded out the top five.
The lightweight varsity men’s and women’s polls scheduled for this week were cancelled due to lack of participation.
Men’s Varsity Eight
Rank | Team (1st Place Votes) | Points |
1 | University of Washington (5) | 227 |
2 | Yale University (3) | 222 |
T3 | University of California (3) | 206 |
T3 | Princeton University | 206 |
5 | Harvard University | 182 |
6 | Brown University | 177 |
7 | Boston University | 160 |
T8 | Cornell University | 158 |
T8 | Northeastern University | 158 |
10 | Dartmouth College | 121 |
11 | United States Naval Academy | 119 |
12 | University of Pennsylvania | 106 |
13 | University of Wisconsin | 99 |
T14 | Columbia University (1) | 78 |
T14 | Stanford University | 78 |
16 | Oregon State University | 49 |
17 | Syracuse University | 46 |
18 | Florida Institute of Technology | 33 |
19 | George Washington University | 32 |
20 | University of Michigan | 24 |
(This week’s men’s eight voters: Wyatt Allen, Scott Alwin, Craig Amerkhanian, Jim Barr, Michael Callahan, Paul Cooke, Brooks Dagman, Mark Davis, Rob Friedrich, Steve Gladstone, Greg Hughes and Todd Kennett.)