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University of Oklahoma Athletics
OU Makes NCAA Championship Debut Friday
May 30, 2013 | Rowing
May 30, 2013
| OU Rowing at NCAA Rowing Championship | |
| Date & Times | Saturday, May 31-Sunday, June 2, 2013 |
| Location | Eagle Creek Park | Indianapolis |
| Race Info | Race Notes (PDF) | Schedule |
| Live Video | NCAA.com/LiveSchedule |
| Live Results | NCAA.com |
| All Access Updates | Championship Central |
| Additional Info | Digital Program | Fan Info | Twitter | Instagram |
QUICK PREVIEW: 2013 NCAA ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP
The University of Oklahoma rowing team competes at its first NCAA Rowing Championship May 31-June 2 at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis. The Sooners, in their fifth season, are one of five programs in the 22-team field making their first national championship appearance.
First held in 1997, OU is the first Big 12 team and just the second program in the 11-team Conference USA to be selected to the NCAA Championship. The Sooners earned the 17th seed in the varsity eight and varsity four and the 14th seed in the second varsity eight event.
The NCAA Championship caps off a record-setting season for OU. The Sooners won their first Big 12 and Conference USA championships on May 4 and 18, respectively. Head coach Leeanne Crain was named the Coach of the Year and senior Nikki Furmanek was named the Rower of the Year in both the Big 12 and C-USA, while Crain and graduate assistant Kelsey Witten earned Regional Coach and Assistant Coach of the Year honors from the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association.
LIVE VIDEO, RESULTS AND ALL-ACCESS UPDATES
• A live video stream of all the races can be found at NCAA.com.LiveSchedule
• Live results will be available on NCAA.com. Additional social media updates and photos from the championship can be found on Twitter at @SoonerRowing and Instagram at @OU_Rowing.
• Follow along with behind-the-scenes updates, notes and more from team headquarters in Oak Ridge, Tenn. on the Championship Central page on SoonerSports.com. The QR code above will link to the page, which will have all-access updates, live results and more throughout the weekend.
BREAKING DOWN THE CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD
The championship features races in the varsity eight, second varsity eight and varsity four. Four heats in each event will be held on May 31, followed by the repechage in the afternoon for boats that do not finish in the top two of each heat. The semifinals will be held June 1, with the finals on June 2. There will be four sets of semifinals and finals to determine the full 22-team final standings.
Of the 21 other teams, OU has raced No. 3 Ohio State, No. 4 Virginia, No. 6 California, No. 7 UCLA, No. 10 Stanford, No. 12 Michigan and No. 14 Cornell.
Oklahoma earned the 17th seed in the varsity eight event and will race in the first of four heats against No. 1 USC, No. 8 Yale, No. 9 Harvard and No. 16 Washington State.
In the second varsity eight, OU is ranked 14th. Oklahoma will compete against No. 3 USC, No. 6 Princeton, No. 11 Notre Dame, No. 19 Gonzaga and No. 22 Marist in its heat.
The varsity four finds the Sooners with a 17 seed and will race against No. 1 California, No. 8 Wisconsin, No. 9 Washington State and No. 16 Cornell.
SOONERS EARN NATIONAL AND REGIONAL AWARDS
Sophomore Kim Moldenhauer received the NCAA Elite 89 Award at Thursday's NCAA Championship Banquet. An international business major from Bremen, Germany, Moldenhauer is the first OU student-athlete across all sports to earn the award. She carries a 4.0 grade point average and will race in Oklahoma's top boat at this weekend's NCAA Championship.
Head coach Leeanne Crain was named the South Regional Coach of the Year, graduate assistant Kelsey Witten was named the South Regional Assistant Coach of the Year and senior Nikki Furmanek was named to the All-Region First Team. Additionally, Ivy Brown, Rachel Cantrell, Kristin Clift, Laura Combs, Brooke Holleman, Marilyn Kozlowski, Kim Moldenhauer, Jennifer O'Grady, Kelsey O'Grady, Emmie Preskitt and Furmanek earned the CRCA Scholar Athlete Award.
Furmanek was also named to the 2013 Capital One Academic All-District Women's At-Large Team.
2013 BIG 12 CHAMPIONS
• In its fifth season as a varsity program, Oklahoma won its first Big 12 Rowing Championship on May 4 in Kansas City Kan.
• The Sooners used wins in the final three races to secure their first conference title. With victories in three of the six events, it marks the highest number of individual boat Big 12 titles for OU in the history of the event.
• OU finished with 136 points, ahead of Texas's 117 points. Kansas came in third overall with 81 points, followed by West Virginia with 75 and Kansas State with 66 points.
• Oklahoma led all teams with eight All-Big 12 honorees. Kristin Clift, Meghan Farrell, Nikki Furmanek, Kellie O'Reilly and Carly Schueler were five of the ten members of the First Team All-Big 12. Ivy Brown, Kelsey O'Grady and Emmie Preskitt were named to the Second Team All-Big 12. Leeanne Crain earned her second-straight Coach of the Year award, while Furmanek was named the conference's Rower of the Year.
2013 CONFERENCE USA CHAMPIONS
• OU won its first Conference USA Championship May 18 in Oak Ridge, Tenn. to secure an NCAA Championship berth.
• The Sooners finished with 63 points, ahead of Tennessee's 57 and Texas' 56. Oklahoma won the second varsity eight and varsity four races and finished second in the varsity eight. OU's open four was also named conference champions.
• Leeanne Crain was named the C-USA Coach of the Year, while senior Nikki Furmanek earned Rower of the Year honors for the second straight season. Freshman Taylor Gillespie was named the Newcomer of the Year. Furmanek and fellow seniors Meghan Farrell, Ashley LaFollette and Rebecca Staff were named to the All-Conference Team.
RECORD-BREAKING SIX BOAT OF THE WEEK HONORS
• The Sooners won six of the seven Boat of the Week honors they have been eligible for this season. The total is the most of any school in both the Big 12 and Conference USA, ahead of West Virginia's four. A total of ten awards have been given this season.
• OU earned the first four Boat of the Week honors awarded to open the season, and the first three awards went to a different OU boat. Oklahoma is the first program in conference history to earn the weekly accolade from both the Big 12 and Conference USA in the same week, which it has done twice this season. West Virginia also accomplished the feat this spring.
• Oklahoma's second varsity four has claimed four Boat of the Week awards, three from Conference USA and one from the Big 12. OU's varsity four earned one accolade from C-USA, while the varsity eight was honored once by the Big 12.
SUCCESS ON THE WATER AND IN THE CLASSROOM
Not only is OU having a record-breaking season on the water, they are also matching that success in the classroom. The Academic All-Big 12 Rowing Team included 24 Sooners, all on the first team. No other school had more first team honorees. Nikki Furmanek, Ivy Brown and Kim Moldenhauer were selected as three of 19 members of the Conference USA All-Academic Team, tying a league high. A conference-high-tying 46 OU rowers were named to the C-USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll, while 13 Sooners received the Academic Medal from C-USA, the highest academic honor from the conference.
BACK IN THE RANKINGS
For the first time since 2011 and for just the second time in its five-year history, Oklahoma was ranked in the top 20 of the CRCA Coaches Poll. The Sooners spent the first four weeks receiving votes in the poll before they earned a No. 20 ranking on April 24 and May 1. In the 2011 season, Oklahoma spent two weeks ranked 20th and 19th. This week's complete rankings are available here.
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