Jacksonville Heading to the Division I Rowing Championship
MAAC Sports
Edison, NJ- Jacksonville University will represent the MAAC with the league's automatic qualifier in the 2014 NCAA Division I Rowing Championship, which will take place May 30-June 1 at the Indianapolis Rowing Center at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis, Ind., with Notre Dame and the Indiana Sports Corporation serving as co-hosts. Jacksonville earned the league’s second automatic qualifier to the NCAA Rowing Championships with a team total of 45 points and became the second team to earn an AQ to the NCAAs.
The JU Dolphins are slated to compete in heat three for all three races as the schedule dictates below.
RACE SCHEDULE:
Varsity 8 (Heat 3): Northeastern, UCLA, Princeton, California, Washington State, Jacksonville
Second Varsity 8 (Heat 3): Northeastern, Indiana, Ohio State, California, Harvard, Jacksonville
Varsity 4 (Heat 3): Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Louisville, Jacksonville
The team championship is composed of 22 teams. Eleven conferences were awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining 11 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field. Teams qualifying for the championship as an automatic qualifier or as an at-large are required to field two boats of eight rowers and one boat of four rowers. For the Varsity 8, second Varsity 8 and Varsity 4 teams, all 22 boats will be seeded into four heats.
All-session and single-session tickets for the Championships can be purchased at www.NCAA.com/tickets through May 28. Beginning May 29, tickets are available on-site (cash only). All-session tickets are $40, while student and senior citizen tickets are $25. The tickets include all three days of competition. Single-session tickets are $15, while student and senior citizen are $10. Parking information is available at www.IndianaSportsCorp.org.
The following teams were selected:
Automatic Qualifiers:
Boston U. (Patriot League)
Jacksonville (Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)
Louisville (American Athletic Conference)
Massachusetts (Atlantic 10 Conference)
Northeastern (Colonial Athletic Conference)
Ohio State (Big Ten Conference)
Oklahoma (Conference USA)
Princeton (The Ivy League)
San Diego (West Coast Conference)
Stanford (Pac-12 Conference)
Virginia (Atlantic Coast Conference)
At-Large Selections:
Brown
California
UCLA
Harvard
Indiana
Michigan
Notre Dame
USC
Washington
Washington State
Wisconsin
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
The MAAC, headquartered in Edison, N.J., consists of 11 member institutions: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter's University and Siena College. ANC Sports Enterprises, LLC. is the league’s marketing consultant and has the exclusive sales rights to the MAAC. For more on the conference please visit, www.maacsports.com. The MAAC Twitter account is @MAACSports and use the hashtag #MAACRow for rowing tweets.
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