{"id":108120,"date":"2017-06-02T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=108120"},"modified":"2017-06-02T13:40:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T17:40:39","slug":"reaction-womens-rowing-wins-a-second-ncaa-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/02\/reaction-womens-rowing-wins-a-second-ncaa-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Watch as Bates women&#8217;s rowing celebrates second NCAA championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates women&#8217;s rowing team defeated Williams by one point to win the 2017 NCAA Championship in dramatic fashion the morning of May 27 on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.<\/p>\n<p>Competing first at the regatta, the Bobcats&#8217; second varsity eight won its race (their fourth consecutive gold medal), earning Bates 12 points. Williams&#8217; boat finished third, and that would be critical.<\/p>\n<p>Bates&#8217; first varsity eight then took to the water. Though they would finish second to Williams (earning 27 points), Bates&#8217; 39 points overall were enough for the championship, just one point better than Williams&#8217; 38, the Ephs falling short because of their third place finish earlier in the 2V8 race.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em style=\"color: #009779;\">Watch this clip of the team being introduced as national champions, plus comments from senior Molly Pritz:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bates women&#039;s rowing takes home 2017 NCAA championship\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ePJWi5Bg-I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bates&#8217; 2V8 rowers watched nervously from the shore as the first varsity eight battled its way to second. Captain Abigail Bierman &#8217;17, second varsity coxswain, describes the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re watching, we&#8217;re watching, and Wellesley puts up this fight in the last 500 meters that almost gets them,&#8221; she recalls. But Bates &#8220;put up an even bigger fight. My bow seat\u00a0Alex Salazar\u00a0turns around and is like &#8216;I can&#8217;t watch any more!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The race ends, and &#8220;we whip our heads around to the coaching staff, and ask, &#8216;Did we?&#8217; and they nodded \u2014 We did!&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em style=\"color: #009779;\">The weekly Bates Bobcast features the national champs:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/325265537&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This marks the 11th consecutive year the Bates women have rowed\u00a0in the NCAA Championships. They have finished first twice (2015 and 2017), second six times, third twice and fifth once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates women&#8217;s rowing defeated Williams by one point to win the 2017 NCAA Championship in dramatic fashion on May 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":108159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11011,8,130,11012],"tags":[1483,1532,6323,6324],"class_list":["post-108120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-awards","category-bates-values","category-collaboration","category-student-life","tag-bates-rowing","tag-bates-womens-rowing","tag-ncaa-champion","tag-ncaa-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108120"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108169,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108120\/revisions\/108169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}