Princeton's Lightweight women ran their title streak to five straight victories with an emphatic row by the varsity eight when it counted in the Sunday final. The Radcliffe eight that took first in the race for lanes on Saturday won the silver for their second medal in as many years, and Georgetown grabbed the bronze to get back on the podium.

"Losing in the heats gave us the edginess we needed," Head Coach Paul Rassam told princetonsports.com. "We have some proud, ferocious racers on our team. They took some anger to the handle and threw down hard. Our boats raced with a lot of aggression and belief in those finals. I saw a lot of courage out of them."

Princeton defended their title in the Light Four as well, and took 6th in the Light Double to keep hold of the the IRA Commissioners Trophy and the team title.

An IRA National Championship. Two gold medals.

It was an unforgettable Sunday on the Cooper River! pic.twitter.com/JuOtjIFtgm

— Tiger Light Women (@tigerwlights) June 2, 2025

See the full scoring breakdown for the team trophy and where every boat finished here on the row2k results page.

"The team points trophy is a tribute to our walk ons," Rassam said. "We had four walk ons in the four. Coach Chris (Pedicone) welcomes these athletes in and teaches them the technical aspects of the sport very well. Our experienced recruits help teach them how to be collegiate varsity athletes - the mentality and the drive and the discipline. It's a full family effort."

Princeton Light Women with the team trophy for a second year running

Amelia Boehle, the senior stroke of the four, said winning the team title took everyone healthy enough to race this weekend.

"This season has been really tough because we had a lot of injuries," Boehle said. "We have a lot of people out. My boat now has two girls in it who started rowing in September.

"At the core of it, we're a really small team and it really is everyone coaching everyone else and everyone pulling their weight literally. We could not have had anyone out today, we could not have done it.

"Everyone knows they have to show up and give it their all because, especially this year, we were a really slim, lean team and we needed everyone."

Varsity Eight - Princeton

The Tigers Varsity eight clearly raced with edge Rassam mentioned, keeping their stranglehold on the event. This Princeton 5-championship streak matches the longest runs in the event to date, by Stanford (2015-19) and the Princeton squad between 1999 and 2003. The Tigers now own ten National Championships in total.

Like all of Sundays races--and Saturday's too, as covered in earlier reports--the water was challenging as the tailwind ripped down the course.

"They were a little rough today," said stroke seat Catherine Barry, about the conditions, "but I think it's nothing we haven't seen this season. So we were prepared for it and we were ready.

"We talked a lot about trusting the preparation that we've been putting in all year, and really staying confident and believing in ourselves," she said. "Knowing we had what it takes and putting a lot of trust in one another.

"There's a lot of love in this boat, and I think we really felt that," Barry added.

The Tiger's time set a new IRA record in the event, lowering the mark to 6:19.32.

Radcliffe gave chase early in the race, which put them in sole possession of the silver, a step up from bronze at IRAs a year ago and their best finish since a silver in 2012...right here on the Cooper the last time the IRA came to South Jersey.

Radcliffe Light Women's Varsity Eight

Georgetown's bronze was its third in four years after taking fifth a year ago, and this year the Hoyas came to the IRA as an At-Large selection. They only took fifth at Easter Sprints, so they came to the IRA this year as an At-Large selection and overturned both BU and Stanford to get back on the podium.

Georgetown Light Women's Varsity Eight

BU took fourth and Stanford sixth, with Wisconsin improving to fifth for its best finish since 2019.

Varsity Four - Princeton

Princeton's four won the Women's Sprints just days after a late line-up switch, and then here at the IRA, MIT hopped into the mix with their top four athletes since they did not have an eight entered--and promptly won the race for lanes on Saturday.

"We watched the race back from yesterday," stroke seat Boehle said afterwards, "and we saw MIT really dominated the last 500. They can manage these tough conditions, especially towards the end where it gets the worst, much better than us. So we knew the key for us would be to get out there and control the race from the beginning."

Princeton Light Women's Varsity Four

The Princeton Four did just that, getting the jump on the field to grab a lead they could come home with, even as MIT picked up speed in the rougher water at the end of the track.

"I've been rowing for 11 years now, and I think it's rare that you make a race plan and you stick to it, but we really did, and was key.

"It got pretty tight towards the end, so going in there with realistic expectations, knowing our strengths, knowing that we'd be rating lower, and that we'd be struggling with the last 500 more relative to MIT, so we had like a length up on them at least."

MIT won the silver, and Radcliffe took the bronze.

Varsity Double - Boston University

BU repeated their win in the Light Women's Double from a year ago, which offered a bit of experience and some extra motivation in the bow seat for Kylie Lough, who was in the boat that won a year ago and was determined to "Defend the Title"--she had even written it on the inside of her forearm.

BU Light Women's Varsity Double

"I absolutely love the double. It's my favorite event," Lough said when she pulled into the dock with her new partner this year, Cat Clark.

"I always have loved sculling ever since I started rowing, and being with Cat, who's in my class year, has been amazing. We have been training together the past couple of weeks. It's just been flying by and this race was executed exactly as we practiced it."

Clark talked about the conditions, which were already pretty bouncy and fast for the first race of the day.

"Today it was honestly a little better, so we were really happy about that," Clark said. "We've had some really tough practices on the Charles lately and I felt like we were really prepared to come into this.

"Even though I haven't been in the sculling boat most of the year," she added, "we felt really good going into this."

The Wisconsin double, which took a lead off the start and stayed in contact with BU the whole way, won the silver ahead of the hard-charging MIT duo who earned the bronze, and it was a pretty tight field at the 1000 before the crews got into the trickier part of the course.

Pumped to medal!