Spartan Complete 2026 Season at Big Tens

Sunday, May 17

Eagle Creek Park; Indianapolis, Ind.

9 am

Michigan State University

B1G Championship Finals

The V8 launches at the Big Ten Championships

5/17/2026 10:35:00 AM | Women's Rowing

East Lansing, Mich. -- Michigan State wrapped up its season at the Big Ten Championships on Sunday. Washington captured its second consecutive team title, earning gold medals in all three NCAA boats by comfortable margins to have the title wrapped up early in the day.

Sunday's racing was considerably less stressful on all crews – Saturday's weather forecast showed unrowable conditions, forcing the scheduled semifinal heats to be preemptively moved to Friday, where the teams faced difficult conditions. After an off day on Saturday, the crews returned to Eagle Creek Reservoir for finals racing today, with a considerably altered schedule. Instead of building to the varsity eight race as the final races of the schedule, instead racing began with the fourth varsity eights and went into the NCAA boats in order, followed by the second and third fours, wrapping with the third varsity/novice eight races to finish the day. As a result, Washington had sealed its Big Ten title early in the schedule – but did not deter the Huskies from winning the smaller entries, earning wins in six of the seven boat classes, its lone second-place finish coming in the novice eight

With the start of Michigan State's day coming early Sunday morning in the petite final of the varsity eight, the Spartans delivered strong race. Minnesota raced out to an early lead as USC and MSU battled down the course for the second spot. USC held the slimmest of leads (.4 seconds) as the boats crossed the 1000 meter mark, but USC extended that lead to a second and a half as the crews entered the final 500. USC moved fiercely as it went into the final sprint, moving on the Gophers and going up a length on MSU. Minnesota held on to take the race victory (6:43.663), about two seats over Southern Cal (6:44.886). MSU was clocked in a time of 6:51.931, open water over Iowa (6:59.744) and Wisconsin (7:04.164).

As for the other NCAA boats, MSU's second varsity eight finished fourth (7:07.219) in the petite final, and the Spartans finished fifth in the varsity four (8:27.386). The second (8:51) and third (8:48.528) varsity fours each took fifth-place finishes. The final race of the day for MSU was the third varsity/novice eights, with MSU taking third place (8:13.938).

SUNDAY BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

VARSITY EIGHT, GRAND FINAL : 1- Washington 6:31.017; 2- RUtgers 6:34.260; 3- Ohio State 6:37.673; 4- UCLA 6:38.492; 5- Michigan 6:42.768; 6- Indiana 6:43.19.
VARSITY EIGHT, PETITE FINAL: 1- Minnesota 6:43.663; 2- Southern Cal 6:44.886; 3- Michigan State 6:51.931; 4-Iowa 6:59.744; 5- Wisconsin 7:04.164

SECOND VARSITY EIGHT, GRAND FINAL: 1- Washington 6:38.262; 2- Rutgers 6:43.914; 3- Michigan 6:47.315; 4- Southern Cal 6:51.950; Ohio State 6:57.691; 6- Iowa 7:01.524
SECOND VARSITY EIGHT, PETITE FINAL : 1- 1- UCLA 6:54.518; 2-Minnesota 6:59.476; 3- Indiana 7:02.879; 4- Michigan State 7:07.219; 5- Wisconsin 7:10.446

THIRD VARSITY EIGHT, GRAND FINAL: 1- Rutgers 7:26.166; 2- Washington 7:29.006; 3- Michigan 7:29.569; 4- UCLA 7:31.386; 5- Ohio State 7:37.686; 6- Indiana 7:50.489
THIRD VARSITY EIGHT, PETITE FINAL : 1- Wisconsin 7:56.514; 2-Minnesota 8:00.774; 3- Michigan State 8:13.938; Iowa 8:28.769

VARSITY FOUR, GRAND FINAL: 1- Washington 7:35.729; 2-Rutgers 7:40.615; 3- Ohio State 7:48.885; 4- Michigan 7:50.822; 5- UCLA 7:59.422; 6- Indiana 8:06.083
VARSITY FOUR, PETITE FINAL : 1- Southern Cal 7:54.515; 2- Iowa 7:57.370; 3-Minnesota 8:01.277; 4- Wisconsin 8:08.838; 5- Michigan State 8:27.386

SECOND VARSITY FOUR, GRAND FINAL: 1- Washington 7:56.789; 2- Rutgers 8:04.778; 3- Ohio State 8:12.603; 4- Michigan 8:13.679; 5- Minnesota 8:31.011
SECOND VARSITY FOUR, PETITE FINAL : 1- Southern Cal 8:21.238; 2-Iowa 8:29.182; 3- Wisconsin 8:31.170; 4- Indiana 8:36.448; 5- Michigan State 8:51.796.

THIRD VARSITY FOUR, GRAND FINAL: 1- Washington 8:01.811; 2- RUtgers 8:09.616; 3- UCLA 8:16.960; 4- Michigan 8:24.806; 5- Ohio State 8:33.400; 6- Minnesota 8:53.636
THIRD VARSITY FOUR, PETITE FINAL : 1- Iowa 8:28.868; 2- Southern Cal 8:35.309; 3- Wisconsin 8:47.287; 4- Michigan State 8:48.528

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS LINEUPS
1V8: B- Alaina Roush, 2-Jayden Schmaltz, 3- Lillian Davidson-Walshe, 4-Ruby Vanden Boom, 5-Maddie Kieft, 6-Jillian Cox; 7-Ava Woodard, S- Ugne Rudaityte, C- Kate Heinecke
2V8: B- Adeline Carleton, 2-Elsa Patten, 3-Susie Schulz, 4-Gabrielle Myers, 5- Marguerite Potter, 6- Ava Getzloff, 7- Mary Shkrabiuk, S – Lia Pollock, C- Kate Galazin
3V8: B- Elizabeth Magai-Townsend, 2- Lillian Smith, 3- Vanessa Goc, 4- Natalie Hedger, 5- Alexa Thurman, 6- Sevyn Donovan, 7- Megan Grzywacz, S- Riley Grant, C – Addison Martin
1V4: B- Mariana Dellavecchia, 2- Analise Chelotti, 3-Sophie Parker, S - Karina Mitrius, C-Jillian Lynch
2V4: B- Julia Griese, 2- Lily Flader, 3- Braeden Tokar, S-Kylie Hinderliter, C- Haley Sornig
3V4: B- Sophia Koester 2- Hope Hoedel, 3- Jane Toner, S- Sarah Lawrence, C- Haley Barabas