The model's #8 women's V8+ in the country took silver in the King's Crown A Final on April 26. The model's #2 won it. The crews ranked between them on the public table were not in the race.
Winter Park has been the model's #1 women's V8+ since the second weekend of March. They have not lost a rated race in the boat all season — five wins inside the FSRA Sweep, FSRA Central District, and OARS Youth Invitational circuits, all decisive. At RPI 2191 with an interval running from 2086 to 2304, they are the most confidently-rated crew in any boat class on the site right now.
What they have not done is race anyone from the Mid-Atlantic, the Northeast, the Midwest, or the Southwest at full strength. That is the structural feature of women's scholastic rowing the model is trying to navigate, and it is also why a Chicago crew finishing two seconds behind Row America Rye in a Mid-Atlantic A Final is a result the model is, with each weekend, making a little less surprising.
| Pos | Team | Time | RPI Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Row America Rye | 6:49.433 | - |
| 2 | Chicago | 6:51.347 | - |
| 3 | Greenwich | 6:56.711 | - |
| 4 | Cincinnati Juniors | 7:04.832 | - |
The list
1. Winter Park
The most-rated women's V8+ in the country, by some distance. Winter Park's spring résumé reads as five clean wins in five rated outings, including the FSRA Sweep Championships A Final on April 26 (4:58.79) — their second consecutive sub-five-minute Florida championship. The interval (2086 to 2304) is the tightest top-of-table interval on the site. There is no other women's eight inside it. They are the favourites at SRAA Nationals on the model's reading.
2. Row America Rye
The King's Crown A Final on April 26 (6:49.4) was Row America Rye's third A Final win in three weekends, after both days of the Mercer Lake Sprints in mid-April. They have been the strongest NYSSRA entry all spring. Their interval (2043 to 2238) overlaps with Winter Park's only at the edges; an SRAA Final between them would settle a real question.
3. St. Andrews RC
St. Andrews RC took the Dogwood Juniors Grand Final on April 26 by 3.6 seconds over Atlanta Junior — a clean Southeast statement on a deep day for the region. Their nineteen-race body of work is the deepest in the top five, and the interval (1964 to 2119) reflects that.
4 & 5. Atlanta Junior and Yorktown
Tied at RPI 1986. Atlanta Junior have the tighter interval (135 points top-to-bottom) and a clearer recent shape — second at Dogwood, second at Shamrock, both behind St. Andrews. Yorktown have a slightly wider interval and a similar string of second-place finishes inside VASRA. The model has them effectively level.
6 & 7. Marin and Mount Saint Joseph
Two more crews close to even on the rating, with very different shapes underneath. Marin has the wider interval and the marquee result of the spring — a San Diego Crew Classic A Final win on March 29. Mount Saint Joseph has the tighter interval and the longer race book, including the King's Crown B Final on April 26 and the Manny Flick the week before. The model is splitting between two strong crews who have not raced each other and likely will not before June.
8. Chicago
The most interesting crew on the list. Chicago took silver in the King's Crown A Final on April 26 (6:51.3), losing only to Row America Rye and finishing ahead of Cincinnati Juniors and the rest of a deep Mid-Atlantic field. They are the model's #8 by mean RPI and a clear top-three on the strength of a single weekend. The interval (1903 to 2028) is what the model uses to tell you that the truth is between those two readings.
9. Orlando Area Rowing Society
The second FSRA programme on the list. Orlando Area Rowing Society finished fourth in the FSRA Sweep A Final on April 26, behind Winter Park and two other Florida programmes. Their interval (1865 to 2021) puts them squarely in the cluster of #5 through #10 by upper bound. They are the strongest test for Winter Park inside the league.
10. Cincinnati Juniors
Cincinnati Juniors took fourth in the King's Crown A Final on the same weekend Chicago took second. They have raced six times this season — the floor for inclusion in this ranking — and they are the second Midwestern crew on the list. Their interval is tight (1856 to 2003) and their league has, this spring, sent two crews to the front of the Mid-Atlantic conversation.
What's missing
The provisional cutoff keeps a few crews you might expect to see off this list. Andover have been dominant inside NEIRA but have not yet raced enough rated opposition this season to qualify for the public ranking. Headington — strong by reputation and last summer's results — has only one race in the database since October. Their numbers exist on the team pages, and they will lift into this space when they earn into the system.
The SRAA Nationals will put Winter Park, Row America Rye, St. Andrews, Mount Saint Joseph, and Cincinnati Juniors on the same body of water. Stotesbury will fold in the Mid-Atlantic field. Henley Women's Regatta is on the horizon. By June this list should be tighter, more cross-regional, and considerably more interesting.