IRA/USRowing Collegiate Poll
Yale Heavies Hold First Going Into Schoch Cup, Yale and Stanford Lights Lead in Coaches Poll
April 21, 2016
Yale University held the number one spot in the fourth week of the 2016 USRowing Coaches Poll heading into the annual showdown with the University of California Saturday at Redwood Shores, Calif.
The dual meet for the Schoch Cup dates back to 1903 and has taken place 104 times. The race is a featured event in Daniel James Brown’s New York Times bestseller “The Boys in the Boat,” which chronicles the epic journey of the 1936 Washington crew that went to the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany and won gold.
Washington holds a 73-30-1 record in the meet. “Of course, historically, this is a very big race for us," said men’s head coach Michael Callahan. "Everybody knows that. For each other, this is a benchmark on how we are doing this season. It is the midterm. It is the mid-season checkpoint on how well you have done."
In polling this week, Yale took first and earned 14 first-place votes. Yale and Washington were tied for first in week one but Yale has led since week two. Washington earned two first-place votes while Princeton University was ranked third and Harvard University finished fourth. Cal closed the polling in fifth.
In the lightweight men’s poll, Yale University held the number one position with all seven first-place votes. The Bulldogs finished a strong weekend of racing Sunday defeating two-time national champion and last weeks top ranked Cornell University on Yale’s home course.
"Today was a good day for the team,” said crew captain Austin Velte. “It's always great to test yourself against high caliber competition and each boat was able to learn something today. The key will be to take the information from today and turn it into boat speed in the coming weeks."
Columbia University and Princeton University tied for second while Cornell and Harvard University rounded out the top five.
Stanford University continued to reign over the lightweight women’s poll, earning all seven first-place votes. Stanford won the Lightweight Invitational on Boston’s Charles River Sunday, topping all racing against Boston University, University of Wisconsin, Harvard-Radcliffe University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Finishing second in the poll was BU, followed in third by Wisconsin. Harvard-Radcliffe and MIT rounded out the top five.
Men’s Varsity Eight
Rank | Team (1st Place Votes) | Points | Previous |
1 | Yale University (14) | 318 | 1 |
2 | University of Washington (2) | 303 | 2 |
3 | Princeton University | 283 | 3 |
4 | University of California | 264 | 4 |
5 | Harvard University | 257 | T-5 |
6 | Brown University | 244 | T-5 |
7 | Boston University | 219 | 7 |
8 | Northeastern University | 216 | 9 |
9 | Cornell University | 204 | 8 |
10 | Dartmouth College | 176 | 10 |
11 | Syracuse University | 151 | 13 |
12 | United States Naval Academy | 135 | 11 |
13 | University of Pennsylvania | 121 | 12 |
14 | Drexel University | 95 | 14 |
15 | Stanford University | 84 | 16 |
16 | University of Wisconsin | 77 | 17 |
17 | George Washington University | 74 | 15 |
18 | Columbia University | 50 | 18 |
19 | Florida Institute of Technology | 39 | 20 |
20 | Oregon State University | 22 | 19 |
(This week’s men’s eight voters: Wyatt Allen, Scott Alwin, James Barr, Geoff Bond, Paul Bugenhagen, Michael Callahan, Paul Cooke, Mark Davis, Rob Friedrich, Jim Granger, Gregg Hartsuff, Greg Hughes, Todd Kennett, Tom Sanford, Paul Savell, Gabe Winkler)
Men’s Lightweight Varsity Eight
Rank | Team (1st Place Votes) | Points | Previous |
1 | Yale University (7) | 105 | T-2 |
T-2 | Columbia University | 93 | T-2 |
T-2 | Princeton University | 93 | 4 |
4 | Cornell University | 86 | 1 |
5 | Harvard University | 78 | 5 |
6 | United States Naval Academy | 66 | 7 |
7 | University of Pennsylvania | 61 | 6 |
8 | University of Delaware | 55 | 8 |
9 | Dartmouth College | 50 | 9 |
10 | Georgetown University | 42 | 10 |
11 | Mercyhurst University | 35 | 11 |
12 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 30 | 12 |
13 | University of California, Santa Barbara | 20 | 13 |
14 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 14 | 14 |
15 | University of California | 9 | 15 |
(This week’s lightweight men’s eight voters: Shawn Bagnall, Michiel Bartman, Martin Crotty, Colin Farrell, Jamie Francis, Sean Healey, Will Oliver)
Women’s Lightweight Varsity Eight
Rank | Team (1st Place Votes) | Points | Previous |
1 | Stanford University (7) | 105 | 1 |
2 | Boston University | 98 | 2 |
3 | University of Wisconsin | 91 | 3 |
4 | Harvard-Radcliffe University | 84 | 4 |
5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 74 | 5 |
6 | Princeton University | 70 | 7 |
7 | University of Tulsa | 68 | 6 |
8 | Georgetown University | 58 | 8 |
9 | Villanova University | 41 | 9 |
10 | Bucknell University | 36 | 11 |
11 | University of California | 28 | 10 |
12 | Washington State University | 27 | 12 |
13 | Oklahoma City University | 18 | 13 |
14 | Pennsylvania State University | 16 | 14 |
15 | University of Oregon | 12 | NR |
(This week’s lightweight men’s eight voters: Derek Byrnes, Malcolm Doldron, Steve Full, Dusty Mattison, Claire Martin-Doyle, Rodney Mott, Paul Rassam)