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Women's Rowing Ranked No. 9 In CRCA Preseason Poll
Feb 11 | Women's Rowing
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Rutgers women's rowing was ranked No. 9 in the 2026 Preseason Pocock Collegiate Rowing Association Poll.
The Scarlet Knights have been ranked in the CRCA Top 20 in each season under ninth-year head coach Justin Price.
Rutgers rowing is coming off a historic 2025 season that saw the Scarlet Knights place eighth in their sixth-straight NCAA Championship appearance, win a program-record six medals with a program-best runner-up finish at the Big Ten Championships and capture the Island Challenge Cup at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta.
The Scarlet Knights captured their second-highest national finish at the 2025 NCAA Championships, which included a program-best fifth-place finish from the Varsity 4. The boat was 2.3 seconds away from the program's first national medal and three-hundredths of a second behind fourth place. The fifth-place performance also matched Rutgers' best boat finish at NCAAs, joining the Varsity 8's fifth-place finish in 2021.
Last season's Big Ten Championships saw the Scarlet Knights earn a medal in all seven races, led by six silver medals by the Varsity 8, 2nd Varsity 8, Varsity 4, 2nd Varsity 4, 3rd Varsity 4, and 3rd Varsity 8.
At the conclusion of last season, four Scarlet Knights were named CRCA All-Americans, five earned All-Big Ten honors and two landed on the Big Ten All-Freshman squad.
Additionally, RU earned seven Big Ten Boat of the Week honors during the season.
Returning are CRCA Second Team All-American Lily Wood, Big Ten Freshman of the Year Beatrice Colclough, Second Team All-Big Ten honoree Chiara Saccomando and Big Ten All-Freshman Team member Femke de Witt. Saccomando (Germany), de Witt (The Netherlands), and Wood (Great Britain) also competed for their respective countries at the 2025 Under 23 World Championship last July.
The Rutgers women's rowing team will scrimmage Temple on March 14 on the Raritan River before opening the 2026 campaign with the Doc Hosea Invitational in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on March 29.
The Scarlet Knights will also participate in the Ivy League Invitational on April 11 in Princeton, New Jersey, the Big Ten Invitational in Gold River, California, on April 18-19 and the Women's Sprints in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 3. The 2026 Big Ten Championships will be held on May 16-17 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The 2026 NCAA Championships will take place on May 29-31 in Gainesville, Georgia.
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The Scarlet Knights have been ranked in the CRCA Top 20 in each season under ninth-year head coach Justin Price.
Rutgers rowing is coming off a historic 2025 season that saw the Scarlet Knights place eighth in their sixth-straight NCAA Championship appearance, win a program-record six medals with a program-best runner-up finish at the Big Ten Championships and capture the Island Challenge Cup at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta.
The Scarlet Knights captured their second-highest national finish at the 2025 NCAA Championships, which included a program-best fifth-place finish from the Varsity 4. The boat was 2.3 seconds away from the program's first national medal and three-hundredths of a second behind fourth place. The fifth-place performance also matched Rutgers' best boat finish at NCAAs, joining the Varsity 8's fifth-place finish in 2021.
Last season's Big Ten Championships saw the Scarlet Knights earn a medal in all seven races, led by six silver medals by the Varsity 8, 2nd Varsity 8, Varsity 4, 2nd Varsity 4, 3rd Varsity 4, and 3rd Varsity 8.
At the conclusion of last season, four Scarlet Knights were named CRCA All-Americans, five earned All-Big Ten honors and two landed on the Big Ten All-Freshman squad.
Additionally, RU earned seven Big Ten Boat of the Week honors during the season.
Returning are CRCA Second Team All-American Lily Wood, Big Ten Freshman of the Year Beatrice Colclough, Second Team All-Big Ten honoree Chiara Saccomando and Big Ten All-Freshman Team member Femke de Witt. Saccomando (Germany), de Witt (The Netherlands), and Wood (Great Britain) also competed for their respective countries at the 2025 Under 23 World Championship last July.
The Rutgers women's rowing team will scrimmage Temple on March 14 on the Raritan River before opening the 2026 campaign with the Doc Hosea Invitational in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on March 29.
The Scarlet Knights will also participate in the Ivy League Invitational on April 11 in Princeton, New Jersey, the Big Ten Invitational in Gold River, California, on April 18-19 and the Women's Sprints in Worcester, Massachusetts, on May 3. The 2026 Big Ten Championships will be held on May 16-17 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The 2026 NCAA Championships will take place on May 29-31 in Gainesville, Georgia.
Follow Rutgers women's rowing on Facebook, X and Instagram.
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