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Wolverines to Host Eagles, Buckeyes in Sunday Showdown
10/6/2017 10:48:00 AM | Rowing
» In its second event of the fall, Michigan welcomes Big Ten rival Ohio State to Belleville Lake this weekend.
» The Wolverines will return numerous letterwinners from last spring, including 15 of 23 athletes from the 2017 NCAA Championships lineup.
» The Wolverines are coming off a third-place NCAA Championships finish in 2017, when it qualified all three competing boats qualify for the Grant Final for the first time since 2001.
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THIS WEEK
Sunday, Oct. 8 -- vs. Eastern Michigan - Novice; Ohio State - Varsity (Belleville Lake), 9/10 a.m
Boathouse Information
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan rowing team will continue its fall season this Sunday (Oct. 8) by welcoming Ohio State to Belleville Lake.
Following the novice races against Eastern Michigan at 9 a.m., the varsity squad will compete in fours and eights against Ohio State. The two programs will race head style for five total 2K pieces at controlled stroke rates (to be determined).
This is the second of four fall dates for the Wolverines and the penultimate fall event for the varsity program. After this weekend, U-M will have a weekend free of competition before traveling to Boston, Massachusetts, for the Head of the Charles event (Sunday, Oct. 22), while the novice program will travel to Michigan State the following Saturday (Oct. 28) to close out the fall season.
THINGS TO KNOW
• Head Coach Mark Rothstein is in his 22nd season at the helm of the program that he help build from a club team to a varsity powerhouse. He has coached nine teams to top-five NCAA Championship finishes, including two second-place finishes (2001, 2012) and last spring's third-place showing. He has been recognized as the Big Ten Coach of the Year on four occasions and was named CRCA National Coach of the Year in 2001.
• Among the roster's top returning athletes, U-M welcomes back five of its eight rowers from the top varsity eight boat at last year's NCAA Championships: Meghan Gutknecht, Tayla-May Bentley, Kendall Brewer, Shayla Lamb and Kalia Krichko. The Wolverines also return all three coxswains who were part of the NCAA Championship roster (Kat Boyle, 1V8; Alexis Jones, 2V8; Erika Yasuda, 1V4).
• The returning Wolverines on this year's roster are an accomplished bunch. Between them, these athletes have garnered two All-America recognitions (Brewer; 2017 first team, Krichko; 2017 second team) and three All-Region accolades (Brewer; 2015 second team, 2016-17; first team and Krichko; 2017 second team).
• This group has achieved at the conference level as well, with a pair of All-Big Ten honors (Brewer; 2016-17), two Big Ten Freshman of the Year accolades (Gutknecht; 2016, Bentley; 2017) and one conference sportsmanship honor (Joesi Krieger; 2017) in their names.
• The accomplishments of the 2017-18 team are not limited to the water. This team retains 15 athletes who earned Academic All-Big Ten recognition last spring.
• The Wolverines spent all of last season occupying a top-five place in the Row2K poll and began the year at No. 4. That marked the team's best preseason ranking in more than 10 years, and with the amount of talent U-M retains heading into next spring, another high preseason ranking is to be expected.
Tweet of the Week
These ladies were born to wear the Block ??! It was our honor to present them with their letter jackets last week. #RowBlue #Hail pic.twitter.com/uDz0hMZzi5
— Michigan Rowing (@umichrowing) October 3, 2017
A LOOK AHEAD
Sunday, Oct. 22 -- at Head of the Charles (Boston, Mass.), 2:25 p.m.
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