No. 2 Rowing earns three top-four seeds for 2025 NCAA Championships

AUSTIN, Texas – Looking to defend its 2024 NCAA National Championship, No. 2 Texas Rowing earned three top-four seeds for the 2025 NCAA Division I Rowing Championships, the NCAA selection committee announced Tuesday. Texas, who won the 2025 SEC Championship, is one of 13 at-large selection's for this year's NCAA Championships.

Texas earned the No. 2 overall seed in the First Varsity Eight. Stanford claimed the top seed while Tennessee was named the No. 3 seed and Washington was tabbed the No. 4 seed in the race. In the Second Varsity Eight, Stanford clinched the top seed followed by two-seed Washington, three-seed Tennessee and four-seed Texas. In the First Four, Stanford clasped onto the No. 1 seed followed by No. 2 Washington, No. 3 Syracuse and No. 4 Texas.

The championship will be held May 30-June 1 at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J., with the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and The Ivy League serving as hosts. Live coverage information will be provided by the NCAA at a later date.

The team championship is composed of 22 teams. Nine conferences were awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining thirteen slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field. Teams qualifying for the championship are required to field two boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. For the I Eights, II Eights and Fours, all 22 boats will be seeded into four heats.

In 2024, Texas claimed its third rowing national title in four years at the NCAA Division I Women's Rowing Championship at East Fork/Harsha Lake in Bethel, Ohio.

Automatic Qualifiers

Rhode Island

Stanford

UCF

Washington

Northeastern

Yale

Fairfield

Boston University

Oregon State

At-Large Selections

Brown

California

Dartmouth

Harvard

Indiana

Michigan

Pennsylvania

Princeton

Rutgers

Syracuse

Tennessee

TEXAS

Virginia

Seed	FIRST EIGHT	SECOND EIGHT	FOUR
1	Stanford	Stanford	Stanford
2	TEXAS	Washington	Washington
3	Tennessee	Tennessee	Syracuse
4	Washington	TEXAS	TEXAS
5	Princeton	Yale	Yale
6	Rutgers	Princeton	Rutgers
7	Yale	Brown	Brown
8	Michigan	Harvard	Tennessee
9	Brown	Rutgers	Michigan
10	Indiana	Virginia	Princeton
11	Dartmouth	UCF	California
12	Virginia	Syracuse	Harvard
13	UCF	Dartmouth	Dartmouth
14	California	Michigan	UCF
15	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania
16	Harvard	California	Indiana
17	Syracuse	Indiana	Virginia
18	Oregon State	Oregon State	Oregon State
19	Boston U	Northeastern	Boston U
20	Northeastern	Boston U	Northeastern
21	Rhode Island	Rhode Island	Rhode Island
22	Fairfield	Fairfield	Fairfield

The University of Texas at Austin Athletics

No. 2 Rowing earns three top-four seeds for 2025 NCAA Championships