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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy rowing program will have two-thirds of its fleet in action this weekend as the heavyweight and lightweight teams will continue the fall competition at Princeton Chase 2021 on Sunday morning. Starting with the men’s heavyweight eight event at 9 a.m., the Navy contingent will have six heavyweight crews deployed, while the lightweights will compete in three separate events on Lake Carnegie, starting with the Lightweight Eights competition at 9.30 a.m. Sunday will be head-style on a three-mile stretch of water in Princeton, NJ
During the heavyweight, lightweight and women’s races scheduled for Lake Carnegie on Sunday, 23 different colleges will be in action at Princeton Chase with 240 individual boats. With six boats in their 9 o’clock race, the Mids heavyweight team will compete against schools like Drexel, Holy Cross, Penn, Princeton, Saint Joseph’s, Syracuse, Wisconsin and Yale. A total of 41 boats compete in the men’s heavyweight eighth competition. The men’s lightweight eighth race at 9:30 a.m. features 23 boats representing six different schools, Cornell, Delaware, Harvard, Navy, Penn, and Princeton. The lightweights will compete against each other again more than two hours later at 12:00 noon in the Men’s Eights Round 2 divisions. The men’s four-man competition at 12:35 p.m. concludes the Navy’s day of action with a pair of four-man crews competing in an open field of 31 boats.
Navy last joined Princeton Chase in 2019. Sunday marks the end of the autumn 2021 season for the heavyweight program, while the lightweights will compete again on Saturday, November 13th, at the UVA Fall Classic.
Race plan
9:00 a.m. – heavyweight eighth (6 HWT boats)
9:30 a.m. – Lightweight Eights (5 LWT)
12:00 noon – men eighth round 2 (1 LWT)
12:35 p.m. – men’s foursome (2 LWT)
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