POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – The Marist women's crew team will compete against the some of the best collegiate crew programs in the country at the 2013 NCAA Rowing Championships. The Red Foxes learned of its opponents in the NCAA Selection Show on Tuesday evening. The Championships will take place May 31 - June 2, at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The NCAA Championship is composed of 22 teams competing for the national team championship as well as individual national titles in the Varsity Eight, the Second Varsity Eight and the Varsity Four events. Marist was one of 11 schools to be awarded automatic qualification for winning its conference title. The remaining 11 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the championship field.

Marist will race in the third heat of the Varsity Eight event. The Red Foxes will be up against Ohio State, California - the 2005 and 2006 national champions, Notre Dame, Cornell and Navy. The Second Varsity Eight will race in its opening heat against Southern California, Princeton, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Gonzaga. The Red Foxes' Varsity Four squad will compete against Brown – which has won seven national championships since 1999, Yale, Virginia – the 2010 and 2012 national champions, Harvard and Boston University.

For the entire schedule of events for the 2013 NCAA Rowing Championships, please click here.

This is Marist's first appearance at the NCAA Championships. The Red Foxes earned the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference's (MAAC) first automatic qualification to the NCAA Championships when they claimed their 10th conference title on April 27. Marist edged Fairfield by two points to earn its first MAAC title since 2008.

“Competing in the NCAA Championships is extra special as we are the first school to qualify out of the MAAC,” senior captain Eleni Waskiewicz said. “And on top of that, we are able to make a bit of history for ourselves and Marist.”

“We have been working extremely hard since the MAAC Championships and continue to gain speed each day,” Marist Head Coach and Director of Rowing Tom Sanford said. “We are very excited and proud to represent the MAAC conference as the first automatic qualifier for the NCAA Women's Rowing Championships. To be a part of such an extraordinary field of crews is both an honor and a great motivator.”

All-session and single-session tickets for the Championships can be purchased at www.NCAA.com/tickets through May 29. Beginning May 30, tickets are available on-site (cash only). All-session tickets are $40, while student and senior citizen tickets are $25. The tickets include all three days of competition. Single-session tickets are $15, while student and senior citizen are $10. Parking information is available at www.IndianaSportsCorp.org.

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