When: Sat.-Sun. May 13-14; 9 a.m. (All Day)
Where: Melton Hill Rowing Course (Melton Hill Lake)
Host: University of Tennessee
Course: The 2000-meter rowing course provides a straight rowing course that can be fully buoyed for seven lanes. Oak Ridge has been the site for a number of major championships including the U. S. Nationals, Women's Nationals, Master's Nationals, and the Pan American Trials. There are only a few venues in the United States that U.S. Rowing feels are good enough for a National Championship, and Oak Ridge is one of only three sites to host the national championship regatta in the last 18 years. Oak Ridge hosted the U.S. Rowing Nationals in 1997 and 2000. Officialcourse site:
Weather: Weather may be a factor, so look at to see if there are any delays.
Texas Boats
First Varsity Eight
CoxKatey Porter (Sr., Houston, Texas)
8 Courtney MacIntosh (Sr., St. John's, Newfoundland)
7 Meredith Yarbrough (Sr., Austin, Texas)
6 Rebecca Roux (Sr., Spring, Texas)
5 Lucy Mulvey (Fr., Sydney, Australia)
4 Luise Fleishhaurer (So., Dresden, Germany)
3 Megan Lenard (Jr., Flower Mound, Texas)
2 Jesse Houghtby (Sr., Pflugerville, Texas)
1 Dorothy Baden-Mayer (Jr., Alexandria, Va.)
Second Varsity Eight
CoxMartine Hall (Sr., St. Catherines, Ontario)
8 Danielle Bartz (So., Woodville, Texas)
7 Megan Kohrs (So., Mesa, Ariz.)
6 Anna Temple (Jr., Houston, Texas)
5 Caley Hullihen (Jr., Livingston, Texas)
4 Whitney McMahon (Jr., Longview, Texas)
3 Emily Tingey (So., Chandler, Ariz.)
2 Melissa Polka (Sr., Austin, Texas)
1 Abby Hahn (So., Old Lyme, Conn.)
First Varsity Four
CoxArti Waghray (Sr., Plano, Texas)
4 Megan Kever (Jr., McKinney, Texas)
3 Deborah Ortiz De la Pena (So., Mexico City, Mexico)
2 Sarah Kelly (Fr., Houston, Texas)
1 Alex Janss (Jr., El Paso, Texas)
Open Four
Cox Karen Man (Jr., Houston, Texas)
4 Hilary Corbett (So., St. Catherines, Ontario)
3 Allison Tsui (So., Chestefield, Mo.)
2 Vanessa Canac (Sr., Houston, Texas)
1 Amy Knitt (Jr., San Antonio, Texas)
Texas and the South/Central Regionals
The Longhorns have competed in the NCAA Championships the two out of the last three years. In 2003, UT's first varsity eight crew finished fourth in the Varsity 8+ Grand Final at regionals, and earned its first trip to the NCAA Championship in school history - where the Longhorns went on to finish 12th. In 2004 competition, Texas earned its second straight appearances at the NCAA Championship on the strength of a sixth-place finish in South/Central Regional racing. The Longhorns placed 15th at the NCAAs in 2004.
Texas at the 2005 South/Central Regionals
Texas wrapped up competition at the ninth-annual South/Central Regional Sprints with its first varsity eight placing 15th after finishing third in the "C Final" while the squad accumulated 172 points to finish 11th overall and fourth in the South region on Melton Lake ...Texas, which had appeared in the Grand Finals of varsity eight competition in each of the previous three years, finished the C-level final, 2,000-meter race in 6 minutes, 53.59 seconds ... the C final determines places 13 through 18 and was won by Duke with a time of 6:48.30. Clemson grabbed runner-up in 6:51.80 ... following the varsity eight race, the Longhorns' Open Four boat competed in the Grand Final and took sixth in 7:51.12 in a tight race that saw Ohio State (7:38.90), Wisconsin (7:40.54) and Michigan (7:42.79) finish 1-2-3 ... meanwhile, the Longhorns second varsity eight boat captured the top time in the Petite Final of its competition, edging Tennessee 6:48.10 to 6:49.34 in a close race for first and second en route to earning a seventh-place overall finish ... also competing in a Petite Final on Sunday was Texas' varsity four boat, which placed fourth in 7:52.26 behind Tennessee (7:42.40), Ohio State (7:46.93) and Clemson (7:48.47).
Last Time on the Water
Texas captured the first two novice races of the day and never looked back, winning three of the remaining four races to claim its fifth straight Big 12 Invitational regatta (UT won from 2001-04, with last year's Invitational cancelled due to bad weather). The Invitational took place on Wyandotte County Lake in Kansas City, Kan. ... the Longhorns won the Big 12 trophy with 56 total points, followed by Kansas and Kansas State who were in a tie for second with 44 points each ... Texas' first varsity eight boat won the premier and final event of the day with a time of 7:58.5, finishing ahead of Kansas (8:05.2) and Kansas State (8:19.0) to capture its fifth overall crown at the Big 12 Invitational ... UT boats also captured the top performances in the second varsity eight (8:11.3) and first varsity four (9:06.5) competitions... The Longhorns finished second in the first novice eight (8:29.1) behind the winning Kansas State crew (8:20.3) ... Kansas finished second in the first novice four (11:35.4), the second novice eight (8:57.6) and the first varsity-eight races...Kansas State took second in the first varsity four (9:20.8) and in the second varsity eight (8:25.4) ... the Big 12 Invitational serves as the league's "unofficial" championship for Texas, Kansas and Kansas State, the only schools to sponsor rowing in the conference ... UT has won all four previous league titles (2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005). In 2004, the regatta was cancelled due to severe weather on the day of competition.
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