Tulsa’s Lightweight 8+ Ranked Sixth in USRowing Collegiate Poll

4/1/2016 11:17:00 AM | Rowing

By: Stephanie Hall

The Tulsa Lightweight 8+ was ranked sixth in the first USRowing Collegiate Poll of the season, as announced by Row2K.com.

Stanford is currently ranked No. 1, while Boston and Harvard-Radcliffe are tied for second place. Wisconsin and Princeton are also ranked ahead of the Golden Hurricane. Fifteen schools are ranked in the weekly poll.

"It is a good start to the season and it is our highest ranking in program history," Head Coach of Lightweight Rowing Rodney Mott said. "It is based off our first race against MIT, which was good early competition for us. We preformed well against them so we were rewarded for that."

Tulsa's Lightweight 8+, which consisted of Emalia Seto, Abigail Elggren, Annie Martin, Madeline Oleksiak, Julia Herrel, Audrey Brown, Lindsay Crute, Micah Gibbons and Betsy Govig, recorded a time of 6:48.6 for a 16-second victory over MIT (7:04.1) in last week's regatta.