BOSTON – Just two days after garnering its best finish at the EAWRC “Eastern” Sprints in 13 years, the Boston University women’s rowing team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Women’s Rowing Championship, to be held May 26-28 at the Finn Casperson Rowing Center on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J., as announced by the NCAA Selection Committee on May 16. It will mark the Terriers’ sixth NCAA appearance in the 10-year history of the tournament, and first bid since 2003.

Hosted jointly by the Princeton National Rowing Association and Rutgers University, the tournament offers 12 team bids, which include varsity eight, second varsity eight and varsity four boats, along with four varsity eight at-large bids. The Terriers’ at-large selection is the third in program history (1998, 2003 and 2006), while BU also received a team bid three times (1999, 2000 and 2001).

The Terrier varsity eight boat ended the regular spring season with a 6-7 record, posting wins over Syracuse, George Washington, Texas, UMass, Kansas and then No. 13 Radcliffe. Meanwhile, five of the seven losses came to crews that were ranked among the nation’s top 20 at the time of the race, including No. 10 Washington, No. 2 California, No. 3 Yale, No. 10 Brown and No. 17 Minnesota. The only unranked teams to come out victorious over the Terriers were Oregon State during the first weekend of spring racing and Dartmouth, which now holds a No. 12 national ranking.

In Sunday’s Eastern Sprints, BU then earned its best varsity eight finish in 13 years, coming up with fourth place behind Princeton, Brown and Yale, which each earned an NCAA team bid.

Joining the Terriers with at-large bids will be Minnesota, Southern California and UCLA, while the 12 team bids went to Brown, California, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, Tennessee, Washington, Washington State, Wisconsin and Yale.

The West Region garnered the most bids with four team and two at-large, while the Midwest had four team and one at-large, New England had two team and an at-large and the South and Mid-Atlantic each had one team.