Huskies Head To Lake Natoma For 2024 Pac-12 Championships

The Washington men's and women's rowing teams travel to the Sacramento State Aquatic Center on Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif, this Sunday, May 19, for the 2024 Pac-12 Championships.
 
The conference regatta returns to Natoma, site of most of Pac-12's recent championship events, after having held the event at Dexter Lake, Ore., last year.
 
This year, the Pac-12 Championships will air live on Pac-12 Network, starting at 9:00 a.m. PT Sunday morning. Additionally, fans can follow the live timing & results, at the regatta's website: Pac-12.com/RowChamps.
 
Here is the schedule for the races (see above website for heat sheets with lane designations, when available):
 
9:02 a.m. – Men's Novice Eight
9:12 a.m. – Women's Novice Eight/Fourth Varsity Eight
9:22 a.m. – Men's Third Varsity Eight
9:32 a.m. – Women's Third Varsity Eight
9:52 a.m. – Men's Varsity Four
10:02 a.m. – Women's Varsity Four
10:12 a.m. – Men's Second Varsity Eight
10:22 a.m. – Women's Second Varsity Eight
10:32 a.m. – Men's Varsity Eight
10:42 a.m. – Women's Varsity Eight
11:00 a.m. – Awards Ceremony
 
PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIPS SCORING
Crews are awarded points for where they place in each race (the men's V4+ and the women's N8+ are not scored and do not factor into the team championship scoring). The team with the most total points is crowed Pac-12 champion. The points system differs for the men and women. Here is the breakdown:
 
MEN'S POINT SYSTEM
Place   V8       2V8      F8/3V8
1          32        24        16
2          28        21        14
3          24        18        12
4          20        15        10
5          16        12        8
6          12        9          6
7          8          6          4
8          4          3          2
9          0          0          0
 
WOMEN'S POINT SYSTEM
Place   V8       2V8     V4       3V8
1          21        14        7          3.5
2          18        12        6          3
3          15        10        5          2.5
4          12        8          4          2
5          9          6          3          1.5
6          6          4          2          1
7          3          2          1          0.5
 
For the men's scoring, each program receives points based on the better of its two finishes in the freshman and third varsity eight races (e.g., if a team finishes first in the 3V8+ and third in the F8+, it gets 16 points, while the team that finishes first in the F8+ in that scenario also receives 16).
 
In both the men's and women's competitions, the finish in the varsity eight would be utilized as a tie-breaker. So, in the case of a tie in the number of total points, the institution with the better finish in the varsity eight race would be awarded the team championship.
 
The conference first held a championship regatta for men in 1960. Washington has won the men's team title 40 times heading in 2024 (until 1994; the varsity eight winner was the conference champion). The Husky men have also earned at total of 144 men's boat championships: 41 varsity 8+; 37 second varsity 8+; 33 freshman 8+; 25 varsity 4+; and eight third varsity 8+.
 
Washington's women won the first Pac-10 Rowing Championship in 1987 and have earned 48 team titles in total (from 1994-96, the Pac-10 rowing championship was combined for men's and women's; UW won it in '95 and '96). Through 1994, the winner of the women's varsity eight race was the Pac-12 Champion, while since then, it's been determined by a points total over more than one race. The UW women have won a total of 79 conference boat titles: 17 varsity 8+; 19 second varsity 8+; 21 novice 8+; 16 varsity 4+; and six third varsity 8+.
 
Following the Pac-12 Championships, the two teams will return to Seattle to prepare for their respective national championship regattas.
 
The women will compete at the NCAA Championships at Harsha Lake in Bethel, Ohio., Friday through Sunday, May 31-June 2. The men will travel to Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J., for the IRA Championship Regatta, that same weekend.
 
FINAL OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION REGATTA
Earlier on Sunday, the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta will get underway in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a long list of entries will compete for the final two spots in each of the various men's and women's Olympic rowing categories.
 
The majority of the field for rowing at the 2024 Olympic Games was set via qualification through other means, including the 2023 World Rowing Championships and various continental events. However, the FOQR will fill the final two qualification spots for each of the events.
 
A total of at least 11 current and former Huskies (changes/additions could still be made) will vie for a trip to Paris in five different boat categories, competing for four different nations. Additionally, the USA men's eight is being coached by UW men's head coach Michael Callahan.
 
Here is a list of those Huskies:
 
Men's Pair (13 entries competing for 2 spots):
Viktor Pivac '18, Serbia
 
Men's Double (14 entries)
Ben Davison '18, USA
 
Women's Quad (6 entries)
Teal Cohen '21, USA
 
Men's Eight (4 entries)
Joel Cullen '23, Canada
Jack Walkey '23, Canada
Will Crothers '09, Canada
Chris Carlson '18, USA
Rielly Milne '18, USA
Pieter Quinton '22, USA
Evan Olson '19, USA
Michael Callahan '96, USA coach
 
Women's Eight (4 entries)
Aisha Rocek '25, Italy