The model's US #1 women's V8+ didn't race at Stotesbury. The US #2 didn't race at Stotesbury. The US #3, #4, and #5 didn't race at Stotesbury. The boat class's most-anticipated weekend of 2026 was a regional Philadelphia championship, and the rating's reaction to that is the more interesting story.
What happened on the Schuylkill: Montclair — a PSRA programme not in the public top fifteen going in — won the Friday time trial in 5:04.93, won the fastest of the three Saturday semis in 5:36.53, and won the Championship Final in 5:29.47, 5.67 seconds clear of Mount Saint Joseph. That is the absolute story of the weekend in this boat class. Montclair don't qualify for the public table on race count yet, but they sit on the bubble and the model's reaction to them is reflected in the recalibration that follows.
What didn't happen on the Schuylkill: every single crew in the model's pre-Stotesbury US top ten sat the regatta out — Winter Park, Row America Rye, St. Andrews RC, Austin, Deerfield, Andover, Atlanta Junior, Greenwich, all the way down. The rating's response to that absence is asymmetric. Some held station, others gained without racing, one lost three ranks (St. Andrews RC), and one — Row America Rye — gained 48 points of RPI without putting a hull in the water. The mechanism is regional: the King's Crown and Mercer Lake fields they beat in April just got more credible against the Stotesbury comparison set.
The new order is below. Numbers are post-Stotesbury, model v0.9.6, dated 2026-05-17, on the same four-digit RPI scale published at launch.
| Pos | Team | Time | RPI Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montclair | 5:29.470 | - |
| 2 | Mount Saint Joseph | 5:35.140 | - |
| 3 | St. Andrews | 5:35.710 | - |
| 4 | Whitman | 5:41.180 | - |
| 5 | Jackson-Reed | 5:45.730 | - |
| 6 | Ocean City | 5:49.260 | - |
The Women's V8+ list (US)
1. Winter Park
Winter Park hold US #1 at RPI 2127 — the most-confident statement at the top of any US women's boat class on this site. They didn't race at Stotesbury. They drop 36 points of RPI on the field-strength recalibration and hold rank; the interval narrows. SRAA is the regatta the model has been waiting on all spring to test them against Row America Rye and the NEIRA contenders directly.
2. Row America Rye
Row America Rye hold US #2 at RPI 2088, and they hold it on a rare data event: the largest non-racer rating gain in any US boat class on the weekend. They gained 48 points of RPI on a Saturday they didn't enter. The mechanism is structural — the King's Crown A Final field they beat in April had its weight nudged upward against the Stotesbury PSRA result, and Row America Rye benefited at the front of the queue. The interval (2011–2172) now overlaps with Winter Park's only at the edges.
3. Austin (▲1)
Austin — the Central league's strongest entry, with a Dallas/Austin race book that does not cross paths with most of this list — rose one rank and 59 points of RPI. The interval (1879–2194, a 315-point range) is the widest in the top five; the model has them third on a body of work that has not yet faced any of the top two. SRAA is where it does.
4. Deerfield (▲1)
Deerfield at US #4 — the strongest NEIRA women's V8+ on the public table. Pre-Stotesbury reading had them at #5 with RPI 1969; the post-Stotesbury reading has them at #4 with RPI 2012, a 43-point gain on the same logic that lifted Row America Rye. The interval (1874–2163) reflects how thin the NEIRA prep schools' cross-region racing has been this spring.
5. Andover (▲1)
Andover at #5 — the second NEIRA crew on the public table. RPI 1975; interval 1854–2107. The body of work the model needs is at SRAA, and the NEIRA prep schools are running out of regattas to demonstrate it.
6. St. Andrews RC (▼3)
The largest rank drop in the top ten without a Stotesbury entry. St. Andrews RC — the Florida programme, not the WMIRA "St. Andrews" that medalled at Stotesbury — went from US #3 to US #6. Their April Dogwood Juniors Grand Final win still anchors a strong rating; what the model adjusted is the strength of the Southeast field they outperformed in March, which the Stotesbury weekend implicitly recalibrated downward.
7. Greenwich (▲1)
Greenwich up one to US #7, gaining 67 points of RPI (1880 → 1947) without putting a hull in the water. Northeast prior, Mercer Lake résumé, the tightest 90% interval (1901–1995, a 94-point range) inside the top ten. They are the most-rated bubble crew on the list and the model's narrowest read on the boat class outside the top two.
8 & 9. Marin (▲5) and Atlanta Junior (▼2)
The largest non-racer rank gain in the boat class meets the largest interval-anchored crew below it. Marin rose five places — from US #13 to US #8 — gaining 42 points of RPI without racing, on the back of the San Diego Crew Classic A Final win on March 29 finally cashing in against a recalibrated Southwest prior. Atlanta Junior drop two to US #9 at the same rounded RPI (1905), carrying the narrower interval (1862–1948, 86 points) — the cleanest data shape in the bottom half of the top ten.
10. Oakland Strokes (▲2)
Oakland Strokes move into the public top ten at RPI 1901, the second Southwest crew on the list. New Trier sit just below at US #11 — a 171-point RPI jump on a regional A Final, the boat class's largest single mover this weekend.
The Women's 2V8+ picture
The Women's 2V8+ at Stotesbury was Mount Saint Joseph's Saturday afternoon. They won the Championship Final in 6:11.44, 2.56 seconds clear of Jackson-Reed, after winning their Saturday semi convincingly and the Friday time trial in 5:21.09. They are the only programme on the weekend with a V8+ silver and a 2V8+ gold on the same day.
The reshuffle below is a non-racer's reshuffle. Atlanta Junior — pre-Stotesbury US #1 — held the top rank cleanly without entering the regatta. Greenwich rose two places to US #3 on the recalibration, gaining what the Row America Rye read-across did in the V8. Deerfield climbed three places to US #8, the largest rank gain in the public top ten. The Southwest contenders gave it back the other way — Marin drop three places to US #6, Newport drop two to US #10, on the same Southwest field-strength recalibration that hit the V8.
| Pos | Team | Time | RPI Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Saint Joseph | 6:11.440 | - |
| 2 | Jackson-Reed | 6:14.000 | - |
| 3 | Merion Mercy Academy | 6:18.150 | - |
| 4 | St. Andrews | 6:28.260 | - |
| 5 | Alexandria City | 6:29.960 | - |
| 6 | National Cathedral School | 6:31.900 | - |
The Women's 2V8+ list (US)
The 2V is the boat class with the widest intervals on this site — the NEIRA prep schools, Deerfield and Andover, both carry intervals over 290 points wide on six and four rated 2V races respectively. The Central league's strongest programmes (Dallas United, OKC Riversport, Austin, Parati) have fewer than four rated 2V races each and don't qualify for the public table; their underlying ratings exist on their team pages with the appropriate caveats. The model's cleanest current-data signal in the boat class is Greenwich's narrower interval (1821–1962) and Atlanta Junior's body-of-work US #1, which the Stotesbury weekend did not test.
What's missing, what's next
Mount Saint Joseph — Women's V8+ silver and Women's 2V8+ gold at Stotesbury — sit just outside the public top ten in both boat classes (US #12 in the V8 at RPI 1878, US #13 in the 2V8 at RPI 1759). A second high-quality result at SRAA puts them inside both. Headington sit at the top of the women's V8+ global leaderboard for British crews going into National Schools'; the British rankings are in the first-look preview piece published alongside this refresh.
SRAA Youth Nationals at the end of May. Winter Park, Row America Rye, Atlanta Junior, Chicago, Deerfield, Andover, Greenwich, St. Andrews RC, Mount Saint Joseph, Marin, and Cincinnati Juniors are all entered. The next reading of the rankings will be the first reading with the full top ten on the same body of water in the same race weekend. Until then, this is the order the model produces.