Daily News | Penn women’s crew to race at nationals for the first time this weekend
For the first time in program history, the No. 7 Penn women’s rowing team is bringing a full complement of boats to the NCAA championship Friday through Sunday at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla.Although the Quakers sent one boat to NCAAs in 1998, this is the first time in program history that a full lineup — two eights and one four — will race at nationals.
Penn will not be the only member of the Ivy League in Sarasota. No. 4 Princeton secured the conference’s automatic bid as the winner of the varsity eight race at the Ivy Championships earlier this month. No. 3 Yale and No. 5 Brown also punched tickets with at-large bids into the regatta.ranks these four schools in the nation’s top 10, making the Ivy League the best-represented conference in the top half of the poll.
“Since then, it has really been a steady, hard progression from a lot of people, throughout all our different classes that have made an enormous contribution,” Ng said. “It’s almost been unrecognizable because the day-to-day progress is solid. But when you really look at it from where we started in September to where we are now, it really speaks to their sustained effort.”
“My mom was on the team when she was in college,” she said. “She is insanely proud, and I know her and the other alumni are right behind us.”
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