Men's Crew Set for 119th IRA Championship on Mercer Lake

Friday, June 3

West Windsor, N.J.

V8: 8:30 a.m. | 2V8: 9:40 a.m. | 3V8: 10:20 a.m.

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IRA Championship - Day 1

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Men's Crew Set for 119th IRA Championship on Mercer Lake

6/2/2022 1:09:00 PM | Men's Crew

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown men's crew hits the water for the final time of the 2022 season at the three-day IRA Championship, set to begin on Friday (June 3) and continue through Sunday (June 5) at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, New Jersey.

The Bears received the #3 seed in the Championship following a strong performance at the 2022 Eastern Sprints. Cal and Yale hold the top-two seeds, respectively.

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FRIDAY HEATS
Varsity 8 Heat 3 – 8:30 a.m.

The Varsity 8 crew kicks off the 2022 IRA Championship in the third heat at 8:30 a.m. The Bears will race in Lane 3 with Colgate and Wisconsin occupying the first two lanes. A pair of familiar foes, Princeton and Navy, will race in Lanes 4 and 5, respectively, with the Temple Owls racing in Lane 6.

Second Varsity 8 Heat 4 – 9:40 a.m.

The 2V8 crew races in the final heat at 9:40 a.m. and are also slotted in Lane 3. Santa Clara and Cornell will race in Lanes 1 and 2, respectively. In Lanes 4 through 6 are Dartmouth, Wisconsin, and MIT, respectively.

Third Varsity 8 Heat 3 – 10:20 a.m.

The 3V8 boat wraps up the morning heats in the third and final heat at 10:20 a.m. The Bears are set to race in Lane 4 with Oregon State, Cornell, and Cal racing in Lanes 1 through 3, respectively. Boston U. and Temple round out the heat in Lane 5 and Lane 6, respectively.

CHAMPIONSHIP BREAKDOWN

The 22 programs in the field compete for an IRA Championship based on a points system that weighs the finish of each boat in its respective race.
The Championship begins with heats for each of the three boats – the first varsity eight, second varsity eight, and third varsity eight – on Friday. The top two boats from each heat advance to the A/B semifinals while the remaining crews proceed to the repechage races on Friday afternoon. The top crew from each repechage also advances to the A/B semifinals while the remainders are placed in the C/D semifinals.
From there, the top three boats in each of the A/B semifinals move onto the upper final with the remainder proceeding to the lower final. The process repeats for the C/D semifinals to the third and fourth level finals.
In the finals, each boat earns points based off its finish in its race, and the program with the most points between its three crews at the conclusion of all the races is awarded the James Ten Eyck Memorial Trophy.
See below for a complete points breakdown by finish.

A LOOK AHEAD

Boats that do not finish first or second in their respective heats on Friday will race in the afternoon repechages. The afternoon reps are scheduled to begin at 1:50 p.m. and continue through 3:20 p.m.
The Saturday semifinals are set to begin at 8:40 a.m. with the V8 A semifinal and continue through the 2V8 D final at 10:10 a.m.
Sunday's lower finals are scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. with the 2V8 D final. The Grand and Petite Finals will begin at 9:20 a.m. and continue through the Varsity 8 Grand Final at 10:50 a.m.
The IRA Championship awards ceremony will begin at the conclusion of the V8 Grand Final and continue through noon.

THE 2022 FIELD

A total of 24 boats will race for the Varsity 8 crown, 23 boats will race for the Second Varsity 8 crown, and 16 boats will race for the Third Varsity 8 crown.
Brown is one of 15 programs to have a boat in each of the three races. Columbia is the lone Ivy League programs without three boats competing.
A pair of Division III programs, Bates and MIT, compete in some of the events this weekend. The Bates Bobcats, from the NESCAC, will compete in the 2V8 races while MIT, from the NEWMAC, will compete in both the V8 and 2V8 races.

ANOTHER CHAPTER

The 2022 IRA Championship marks the 119th Championship Regatta dating back to 1895. The 2022 event is co-hosted by the Princeton National Rowing Association.
Dating back to 1960, Brown has a storied history at the IRA Championship. The V8 crew has captured 19 medals (7 gold, 9 silver) and the 2V8 crew has captured 18 medals (5 gold, 7 silver).
Under Cooke, The V8 has four medals and nine top-five finishes and the 2V8 has four medals and six top-five finishes.
As a team, Bruno has won the Championship twice (1994, 1995), finished second eight times and finished third four times. The team has 30 top-five finishes and 53 top-10 finishes.
Under Cooke, Brown has taken nine top-five finishes and 16 top-10 finishes. The Bears have finished in second twice and third twice since 2002.

SPRINTING IN

The Bears enter the IRA Championship after a second-place effort at the 2022 Eastern Sprints on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts. Bruno's V8, 2V8, and 3V8 crews all placed second to lead the team.
The second-place team finish marks the best for the Bears since finishing first in 2013 and 2014. The four medals won mark the most by Brown since 2013.
As a team, Brown has finished in the top-3 in six of the last nine Eastern Sprints and 14 of the last 23 dating back to 1998.
The Varsity 8 crew's second-place finish is the highest since finishing first, second, and second in 2012, 2013, and 2014. It's the seventh medal for the Crew over the last nine Sprints and 11th podium finish in the last 15.
The 2V8 crew picks up its second-straight silver after finishing second in 2019. It's the seventh time the second crew has won a medal in the last 13 Sprints.
The 3V8's second-place finish is the best for Brown since taking second in 2015. It's the first podium finish for the 3V crew since 2016 and sixth medal in the last nine Sprints.

COACH OF THE YEAR

Following the efforts at the Eastern Sprints, Head Coach Paul Cooke '89 was voted the Ivy League Coach of the Year by his peers.
It marked Cooke's first major award since receiving EARC Coach of the Year Honors in 2012. It's his first Ivy League Coach of the Year accolade and breaks up a two-year stretch of Yale's Steven Gladstone earning the major award.

IVY LOOKS GOOD ON YOU

In addition to Cooke earning Coach of the Year honors, Brown's Varsity 8 crew earned Second Team All-Ivy honors following their second-place finish at the Eastern Sprints.
It marks the first time since 2013 and 2014 the Bears have picked up All-Ivy honors.
Harry Church (B), Jack DiGiovanni (C), Charlie Fargo (6), Simon Hatcher (3), Kai Hoite (2), Henry Hollingsworth (5), Will Legenzowski (7), Gabriel Mahler (4), and Gus Rodriguez (S) earned the All-Ivy recognition.
In addition to Second Team All-Ivy, Hatcher was recognized as Brown's Academic All-Ivy selection. The Portland, Oregon native is a Mechanical Engineering concentrator at Brown.

SUCCESS BEGETS SUCCESS

Looking back, there is a strong relationship between Brown's performance at the Eastern Sprints and the IRA Championship.
Prior to 2022, Brown has finished second at the Eastern Sprints 11 times. In those seasons, the Bears took a top-five finish at the IRA Championship eight times.
In the 28 times the Bears have taken a top-five finish at the Eastern Sprints, they have gone on to finish top-five at the IRA Championship 25 times.
Both the V8 and 2V8 crews have medaled at 20 previous Eastern Sprints. In 12 of those seasons, the crews have gone on to medal at the IRA Championship.

CUP SEASON AT A GLANCE

The Bears enter the weekend after an extremely strong spring schedule. Every single team Brown raced against in the Spring 2022 campaign is competing at the 2022 IRA Championship.
In late March, the Bears opened the season with a neutral site race against Boston U. and Navy in New Jersey, taking first against the Terriers and Midshipmen.
Brown opened April with a dual race against the Yale Bulldogs on Lake Housatonic, finishing second to the top-ranked Bulldogs.
The Bears welcomed Harvard to the Seekonk River on Saturday, April 9 for a race in choppy, windy conditions. The fifth-ranked Crimson captured the Stein Cup over the sixth-ranked Bears.
Bruno hit the Charles River and took first over the Northeastern Huskies in mid-April to get back in the win column.
Brown closed the season on the Seekonk against Dartmouth (Apr. 23) with a second-place finish before squaring off against Princeton on Lake Carnegie (Apr. 30) to close the cup season. Brown broke a 13-13 series deadlock with Princeton with the victory on Lake Carnegie.
At the Eastern Sprints, Brown squared off against familiar foes in the Grand Finals with Syracuse taking part in a pair of the finals.

2022 IRA CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS BREAKDOWN

FINISH	VARSITY 8	SECOND VARSITY 8	THIRD VARSITY 8
1	120	96	72
2	115	92	69
3	110	88	66
4	105	84	63
5	100	80	60
6	95	76	57
7	90	72	54
8	85	68	51
9	80	64	48
10	75	60	45
11	70	56	42
12	65	52	39
13	60	48	36
14	55	44	33
15	50	40	30
16	45	36	27
17	40	32	24
18	35	28	21
19	30	24	18
20	25	20	15
21	20	16	12
22	15	12	9
23	10	8	6
24	5	4	3

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