April 25, 2002

CLEMSON, SC - The Clemson rowing team is ranked 24th according to the 2002 USRowing/CRCA NCAA Division I Varsity Eight Coaches Poll released yesterday. This is the fourth consecutive week that Clemson has been ranked 24th. The University of Washington tallied 19 first-place votes to claim the top spot while Brown University ranks second and the University of Michigan is third.

Clemson is one of three ACC teams ranked in this week's poll. The University of Virginia is ranked 11th, while Duke is 19th. The complete poll is listed below.

Team 		(1st-Place Votes)   	Points
1. University of Washington (19)  		494
2. Brown University(6)  			481
3. University of Michigan   	   	423
4. Princeton University     		411
5. Ohio State University    		396
6. Yale University  		 	359
7. Stanford University     		 	 355
8. University of California at Berkeley   	  340
9. Harvard University      		 	 293
10. University of Notre Dame 		267
11. University of Virginia   		254
12. Michigan State University        	214
13. Syracuse University     		211
14. Washington State University     		 143
15. University of Southern California    	    121
16. Northeastern University 		106
17. Oregon State University  		103
18. Cornell University        		83
19. Duke University 			  67
20. Boston University   		      51

Others receiving votes:  Columbia University 44, 
University of Texas 16, University of Minnesota 7, 
Clemson University 6, 
Boston College 2, University of Iowa  2,
 and University of Wisconsin 1.