Big Green Ready for Ivy League Championship

Sunday, May 14

Worcester, Mass. / Lake Quinsigamond

Dartmouth College

Ivy League Championship

Photo by: Justin Lafleur

5/11/2023 10:21:00 AM | Women's Rowing

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Sunday racing is in conjunction with the Men’s Eastern Sprints also happening at the same location

By: Justin Lafleur

HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth women's rowing team is ready for the Ivy League Championship, which is set for this Sunday at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dartmouth has made impressive strides throughout the season, highlighted by a sweep of UMass and MIT, along with smaller, but significant victories in margins that the Big Green hope translates on Sunday. The Ivy League Championship can be viewed live on ESPN+.

"I think we can look at results and margins from the beginning of the year to now with programs we've raced and how those programs have finished at subsequent races, and we can see that we've closed those margins or have bettered those times of crews that have previously beaten us," said head coach Nancy LaRocque. "We also look at the progress we make every day in the water and race-to-race, and that gives us a lot of promise for this weekend. We learned a ton at women's sprints in terms of race execution and building confidence."

Racing on Sunday coincides with the Men's Eastern Sprints. Dartmouth's men's heavyweight and lightweight teams will also be racing at Lake Quinsigamond Sunday. For the women, the Ivy League preliminaries begin at 9:21 a.m. with the Varsity Eight and wrap up at 10:42 a.m. with the Third Varsity Eight. The finals are all set for the afternoon.

At last season's Ivy League Championship, the Big Green claimed a fourth-place finish in the grand final of the Third Varsity Eight, with victories in two petite finals. Dartmouth came in seventh overall.

The Big Green know their success this Sunday will be a byproduct of all the work they've put in since last year's Ivy League Championship racing.

"The work they've done since last June until now is what goes into the race results this coming weekend," said LaRocque. "They should feel confident in that work and the work they've done all year."

Last time out at Women's Sprints, three Dartmouth crews advanced to petite finals, including the Third Varsity Eight coming out victorious in its final with two others winning third-level finals.

"The week after every race, we've tried to do at least one day of pieces with some switches and we finished up selection on Saturday," said LaRocque. "We believe the lineups we have right now, every boat has the right athlete in it. The Varsity Eight is faster than the 2V, which is faster than the 3V. It's down the line; we feel like we have all the right people in the right seats.

"We're excited for those lineups to really come together as individual crews this week," LaRocque continued. "It's not one person that makes a boat. It's either all five or all nine athletes in that boat.

"The goal for this week is to come together as the best version of themselves."

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