WEST WINDSOR, N.J. – Rutgers rowing finished in eighth place as a team at the 2025 NCAA Championships, marking its second-highest national finish in program history after racing concluded Sunday on Lake Mercer. RU combined for 83 points.

The Varsity 4 finished fifth in the grand final to record the boat's best national finish at the NCAA Championships and scoring 18 championship points. The V4 was just 2.3 seconds away from the program's first national medal, and was a minuscule three-hundredths of a second behind fourth-place Yale. The fifth-place finish also matched Rutgers' overall best boat finish at NCAA's, joining the Varsity 8's fifth place in 2021.

 The Varsity 8 took second in its petite final to grab national place No. 8 and 45 championship points. RU was bow ball to bow ball with Indiana throughout the race, with the Hoosiers edging the Scarlet Knights at the 1,000 and 1,500-meter marks on the 2,000-meter course. Rutgers finished strong to take Indiana at the line by a half-second.

The 2nd Varsity 8 finished 2025 in winning fashion, taking the C final race by 2.4 seconds over runner-up UCF for 20 championship points. RU took the lead by the halfway point and never relinquished, holding off UCF and Pennsylvania.

Rutgers was competing in its sixth consecutive NCAA Championships, finishing in the country's top 15 in each of those seasons.
 
TEAM RESULTS

1	Stanford	129
2	Yale	121
3	Texas	118
4	Washington	117
5	Tennessee	106
6	Princeton	99
7	Brown	95
8	Rutgers	83
9	California*	79
10	Virginia*	79

11	Michigan	74
12	Syracuse	67
13	Harvard	65
14	Indiana	58
15	UCF	52
16	Dartmouth*	39
17	Pennsylvania*	39
18	Oregon St	33
19	Northeastern	27
20	Boston	20

21	Rhode Island	12
22	Fairfield	6

FINALS RESULTS


Lineups
1st 8+
8: Chiara Saccomando
7: Kate Pitzel
6: Hannah Heideveld
5: Lily Wood
4: Elli Arbogast
3: Lauren Andersen
2: Ruby Hatfield
1: Louise Dinard
Coxswain: Victoria Grieder

2nd 8+
8: Olivia Elliott
7: Mary Ciardiello 
6: Jazmine Ingall
5: Beatrice Colclough
4: Elizabeth Enriquez
3: Vanessa Karayiannis
2: Emily Szopa
1: Ciara Butler
Coxswain: Maxine Prawl

1st 4+
4: Femke de Witt
3: Louise Liemberg
2: Olenka Moran
1: Olivia Cook
Coxswain: Meghan Mangan

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