Cougars Host Top-Ranked Huskies in Final Pac-12 Tune Up: No. 14 Washington State rowing is home to face the nation's top team, and cross-state rival, Washington...racing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. at Wawawai Landing on the Snake River.

The 2017 Washington Dual: Boats will compete in six different races along a two-kilometer course on the Snake River...racing is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. with the fifth varsity eights, followed by the fourth varsity eights, third varsity eights, varsity fours, second varsity eights, and ending with the varsity eights scheduled for 10:15 a.m..the regatta will mark the final home competition for seniors Ieva Adomaviciute, Mihaela-Teodora Berindei, Brittany Brooks, Jill Hannink, Nicole Hare, Jessi Howe, Hunter Jones, Chloe Rogers, Lori VerMurlen, and Isabella Watt.

Earlier This Spring: Then-No. 15 WSU raced against No. 1 Washington at the afternoon session of the Oregon State Classic, April 8 at Lowell, Ore...the top-ranked Huskies beat the Cougars in each of the varsity eight, second varsity eight, varsity four, and second varsity four races...the varsity eights provided the closest race, with UW winning by seven seconds.

Last Year Versus Washington: WSU faced UW in dual action last spring at Seattle on the Montlake Cut...the Huskies won each of the day's four races...the UW varsity eight finished at 6:33.713, just under 8 seconds ahead of WSU...in the varsity four race, UW won by 24 seconds at 7:10.498...the Huskies also claimed the second and third varsity eight races by 16 and 12 seconds, respectively.

WSU Head Coach Jane LaRiviere On Final Regatta Before Pac-12 Championships: "Again, the goal is to get a little faster. We have nothing to lose, so we might as well just rack it up and see what happens. Teams often live up or down to the level of competition. So I'm hoping that Washington causes us to have a whole new gear, and just learn something about ourselves so that we get set up in the best possible way to go to Pac-12s."

WSU Head Coach Jane LaRiviere On Program's Seniors: "I can't actually say enough about them. We've had a lot of great classes over the years, but they would be up amongst the best classes that have ever gradutated. Just from a fundamental, acheivement level - we're really hoping to make it to NCAAs this year - and that will mean that they've been every year. There are seven world championship titles in the crowd. There's an Olympian in the crowd. Their average GPA is about a 3.3. There are engineers and accountants, and there are two double majors. There are a lot of quintessential student-athletes in that group, and every last one of them has made a nice contribution to the program. They're going to be a tough act to follow."

Cougars Ranked 14th in USRowing/CRCA Poll: WSU is ranked 14th in the nation in this week's USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) Division I Coaches Poll presented by Pocock Racing Shells, released April 25... Washington State's No. 14 ranking keeps it in the nation's top-15 for a 25th-consecutive week dating back to March 25, 2015...overall, WSU is ranked in the top-20 for the 93rd-consecutive week, dating back to June 11, 2008...five of the seven Pac-12's women's rowing teams are ranked in the top-20 poll: Washington-first, California-second, Stanford-eighth, USC-13th, and WSU-14…UCLA is receiving votes.

Coaching Staff: Jane LaRiviere is in her 15th year as head coach of the WSU women's rowing program...as a team, the Cougars have raced in 10 NCAA Championships under LaRiviere...she is joined by associate head coach Josh Adam, assistant/novice coach Karl Huhta and assistant coach Liz England...Adam is in his seventh year after coaching his prior two years at Indiana...Huhta is in his third year with the Cougars and second as the novice coach...England is entering her first season, after rowing for LaRiviere from 2010-12.

Next for the Cougars: The Cougars will train at home next week before heading south to compete at the Pac-12 Championships on Lake Natoma at Gold River, Calif. Sunday, May 14.