1999 Results
10-1 overall, 6-1 Ivy
3/27 1. Brown 7:22.80 2. Princeton 7:24.30 4/3 1. Princeton 7:03.06 2. Rutgers 7:16.14 3. Columbia 7:23.72 4/10 1. Princeton 6:40.80 2. Radcliffe 6:41.50 3. Cornell 6:53.70 4/17 1. Princeton 6:38.20 2. Yale 6:55.90 4/24 1. Princeton 6:47.00 2. Dartmouth 6:53.50 3. Pennsylvania 6:54.20 5/1 1. Princeton 6:51.50 2. Virginia 6:54.50 3. Georgetown 7:11.40 4. G. Washington 7:23.40 5/16 EAWRC championships # 1. Brown 6:02.10 2. Princeton 6:04.20 3. Virginia 6:05.20 4. Radcliffe 6:12.40 5. Wisconsin 6:14.10 6. Boston Univ. 6:16.30 5/30 NCAA championships $ 1. Brown 6:46.89 2. Virginia 6:50.50 3. California 6:51.79 4. Princeton 6:52.00 5. Washington 6:55.29 6. Harvard 7:02.79
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Highlights
• Princeton finished fourth at the
third annual NCAA championships.
• Kristen Bartges, Eli Sroka and Sarah Cook were named to the
Mid-Atlantic first team. Bartges and Sroka were also first-team
All-America selections. Cook earned second-team All-America
accolades.
• Head coach Lori Dauphiny was named the Mid-Atlantic
Region Coach of the Year.
• After an opening loss to Brown, Princeton won its final 10
regular-season races.
According to Webster, a nemesis is "anyone or anything by which, it seems, one must inevitably be
defeated or frustrated." For the 1999 women's
open crew team, a picture of the Brown Bears could be placed beside that definition.
The women lost three races this season, all at the oars of the Bears, which seemed
to bookend the 1999 campaign. What happened in the middle proved why
Princeton is one of the premier crews in the country.
The season began with defending Eastern champion and third-ranked
Brown coming to Lake Carnegie for one of the Tigers' tightest races all season. It was
a close race throughout, with the Bears taking a 1.5 second advantage across the
finish line. After a 13-second victory against Rutgers and Columbia on the
Raritan River, the Tigers headed to Cambridge for what proved to be the closest race of
the season. In the 20th regatta between Princeton, Radcliffe and Cornell, the
Orange and Black came away with a slim victory, crossing
the finish line seven hundredths of a second ahead of the
Crimson. Cornell finished the race in third. The win marked the 10th
consecutive and 13th overall, Tiger victory in the series.
In the third of four road weekends for the Tigers, Princeton traveled to
Derby, Conn., for a dual regatta with Yale. Princeton took a 17.7-second advantage
across the finish line as the Tigers picked their 11th consecutive victory over the Elis
in Eisenberg Cup competition. The Orange and Black rounded out the month
of March with a five-race sweep of Dartmouth and Pennsylvania in Hanover.
In the final regular-season event of the year, Old Nassau hosted a four-team regatta that included two teams from the nation's capital, George Washington and Georgetown, along with the top-ranked boat in the East, Virginia. Ranked third in the East, Princeton edged the Wahoos by three seconds for the victory.
The Tigers carried that momentum into the annual Eastern Association
of Women's Rowing Colleges championship. Once again Princeton topped Virginia
and Radcliffe, but took second, 2.1 seconds behind Brown. The members of the
first varsity earned second team All-Ivy honors.
With an invitation to the third annual NCAA championships over the
Memorial Day weekend, the Tigers headed to California for the final rowing event of
the 1998-99 year. Princeton edged Michigan by less than a second to win the trial
heat on Friday and took second in the semifinals on Saturday, nine tenths of a
second behind California, to advance to the grand final. The Tigers led for the first 800
meters of the championship race, but saw that In a sport that has very few postseason honors, the Tigers took home their
share of the first annual all-region and All-America awards from the Collegiate
Rowing Coaches Association. Three Tigers were named to the Mid-Atlantic first
team, Kristin Bartges, Sarah Cook and Eli Sroka. Bartges and Sroka were first-team All-America selections, while Cook earned second-team accolades.
Head coach Lori Dauphiny was named the Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year.
lead diminish midway through. The Golden Bears once again slipped
across the finish line less than a second ahead of Princeton, giving the Tigers a
fourth-place finish. Princeton could not avenge
two previous losses as Brown won its first national championship with a first-place finish, and Virginia took second.
