PHILADELPHIA – Championship season has arrived for the University of Pennsylvania women's rowing team, as the Quakers gear up for the Ivy League Championship this Sunday on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, N.J.
 
Sunday's races will air live on ESPN+, with Bill Spaulding and Dave Vogel on the call. Click here for the morning heats and click here for the afternoon finals.
 
The Ivy League champion will receive the conference's automatic bid into the NCAA Championship, which is scheduled to take place May 31-June 2 in Indianapolis, Ind. The automatic bid format is new this year; instead of the Varsity Eights winner earning the bid for their program, the bid instead will go to the program that accumulates the most points across the Varsity Eights, the Second Varsity Eights, and the Varsity Fours.
 
Penn is scheduled to row two eights and two fours on Sunday.
 
Seeds
*Penn's Varsity Eights are seeded fifth behind Princeton (1), Brown (2), Yale (3) and Harvard (4).
 
*Penn's Second Varsity Eights are seeded fifth behind Brown (1), Harvard (2), Yale (3) and Princeton (4).
 
*Penn's Varsity Fours are seeded fifth behind Brown (1), Yale (2), Princeton (3) and Dartmouth (4).
 
*Penn's Second Varsity Fours are seeded fourth behind Yale (1), Princeton (2) and Brown (3).
 
Rankings
In the latest CRCA/USRowing national poll, which came out Wednesday, Yale's Varsity Eights was ranked fifth while Princeton was ranked eighth and Brown was tenth. Harvard is 19th, and Penn is the only Ivy among 13 teams receiving votes outside the top 20.
 
Coach Ng says…
"The team has had solid preparation for the Ivy League Championships in the past three weeks and I believe we navigated the challenges of finals and the end of the semester as best we could going into the regatta. I also think that each crew can demonstrate more speed than they have during our regular season and really earn a peak performance on Sunday.
 
"I'm particularly grateful for our senior class: Tessa LaPatra, Ellie Harned, Alaina Hunt, Abby Scheetz, and Kendall Bearly-Malinowski. Their contributions have been immeasurable and have led to very distinct improvements in our program."