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University of Texas
San Diego Crew Classic
04.05.2024 | Rowing
Texas opens the season in California in the historic San Diego Crew Classic.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 4 Texas Rowing heads west to open the season at the historic San Diego Crew Classic to be held April 6-7. Racing will take place over a 2,000-meter course on Fiesta Bay-Crown Point Shores of Mission Bay Park in San Diego, California. The San Diego Crew Classic is largely referred to as America's premier spring regatta, featuring junior, collegiate, adaptive and masters racing.
Texas' First Eight is among seven boats invited to race for the prestigious Collegiate Varsity Jessop-Whittier Cup. The field includes Pac-12 powers No. 3 Washington and No. 7 California, as well as Notre Dame, San Diego, SMU and Washington State.
The Second Eight will compete for the Women's Collegiate 2V Jackie Ann Stitt Hungness Trophy and the Four will race for the Women's Collegiate Varsity 4+ Karen Plumleigh Cortney Cup. The Longhorns will also race a Third Eight boat in the Women's Open 8+ Carley Copley Cup.
The Longhorns were victorious in each event last year with Texas sweeping through the heats and finals.
When: April 6-7, 2024
Where: Fiesta Bay-Crown Point Shores of Mission Bay Park, San Diego, Calif.
Results: https://hookem.at/SDcrew24results
Watch: https://hookem.at/SDcrewclassic24
Regatta Information: https://crewclassic.org
Tentative Race Schedule
Saturday, April 6
I Eight: Women's Collegiate Varsity Jessop-Whittier Cup Invitational
11:26 a.m. CT/9:26 a.m. PT – Heat 2 of 2 (Line 1)
II Eight: Women's Collegiate 2V Jackie Ann Stitt Hungness Trophy
12:54 p.m. CT/10:54 a.m. PT – Heat 2 of 2 (Line 1)
Four: Women's Collegiate Varsity 4+ Karen Plumleigh Cortney Cup
12:30 p.m. CT/10:30 a.m. PT – Heat 1 of 2 (Line 1)
III Eight: Women's Open Carley Copley Cup
1:34 p.m. CT /11:34 a.m. PT – Heat 1 of 1 (Line 1)
Sunday, April 7
I Eight: Women's Collegiate Varsity Jessop-Whittier Cup Invitational
Final – 11:30 a.m. CT/9:30 a.m. PT
II Eight: Women's Collegiate 2V Jackie Ann Stitt Hungness Trophy
Final – 12:14 p.m. CT/10:14 a.m. PT
Four: Women's Collegiate Varsity 4+ Karen Plumleigh Cortney Cup
Final – 12:06 p.m. CT/10:06 a.m. PT
III Eight: Women's Open Carley Copley Cup
Final – 1:10 p.m. CT/11:10 a.m. PT
A Look at the Longhorns
The eight-time defending Big 12 Conference champion Longhorns return two-time first-team All-American Anna Jensen, as well as fellow 2023 All-Big 12 Team selection Etta Carpender. Three of the four rowers from the national title-winning Four are also back in Abby Dawson, Anna Garrison and Cassandre Korvink-Kucinski. All told, 13 of the 20 rowers and one coxswain who competed at the 2023 National Championship regatta are back for the 2023-24 season.
In addition to the trio from last year's champion Four, returning from the Texas I Eight are Jensen, Carpender and Lanie Nitsch, while the II Eight returnees are coxswain Carly Legenzowski and rowers Nadja Yaroschuk, Hannah Medcalf, Allie Alton, Marg Van der Wal, Taryn Kooyers, Sue Holderness and Amber Harwood.
Preseason Accolades
Jensen and Nitsch were named to the inaugural College Rowing Coaches Association Athletes to Watch list.
Jensen, a native of Midland, Mich., is a two-time first-team All-American, one of 10 Longhorns to be named to the first team on multiple occasions. She has rowed in the Texas I Eight in each of her first three seasons on the Forty Acres, helping the Longhorns to team and First Eight national titles in 2021 and 2022. A two-time All-Big 12 selection and the 2021 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, Jensen won gold with USRowing at the 2022 World Rowing Under 23 Championships in the Women's Coxless Four (BW4-).
Nitsch, who hails from McAllen, Texas, has competed in the last three NCAA Championships, rowing in the Four in 2021, Second Eight in 2022 and First Eight in 2023. A three-time Big 12 Champion, she rowed with Team USA at the 2022 World Rowing Under 23 Championships, winning gold with the Women's Eight (BW8+).
Texas in the Polls
Texas opened the season at No. 4 on the Pocock Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Rowing Preseason Poll and has held firm at that position through the first three weeks of the season.
Defending national champion Stanford has held the No. 1 spot throughout the season. Princeton is ranked second and Washington third, while Yale rounds out the top five.
Pocock CRCA Coaches Poll Division Rankings – Week 3 (April 3)
1. Stanford
2. Princeton
3. Washington
4. TEXAS
5. Yale
6. Brown
7. California
8. Syracuse
9. Michigan
10. Pennsylvania
11. Virginia
12. Ohio State
13. Duke
14. Rutgers
15. Tennessee
16. Indiana
17. USC
18. Oregon State
19. Harvard
20. UCLA
Championship Pedigree
Texas has registered top-eight results in each of the last eight NCAA Championship Regattas:
2023 – 4th (Boat National Title: Four)
2022 – National Champion (Boat National Title: I Eight)
2021 – National Champion (Boat National Title: I Eight)
2020 – No regatta
2019 – 2nd
2018 – 3rd
2017 – 4th
2016 – 8th
2015 – 7th
Defending Conference Champions
Texas enters 2023-24 as the eight-time defending Big 12 Conference Champions. In all, Texas has won 12 of the 14 Big 12 Conference Championships held, placing runner-up in 2013 and fourth in 2014.
