{"id":168671,"date":"2026-04-17T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168671\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:35:07","slug":"three-boats-advance-to-a-finals-at-orlando-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168671\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Boats Advance to A Finals at Orlando Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The 19th-ranked University of Pennsylvania women&#8217;s rowing team moved three of its four boats into their respective A Finals at the inaugural Orlando Invitational, with the fourth missing out by the narrowest of margins. The two-day event is being hosted by the University of Central Florida (UCF) on Lake Pickett and concludes on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/crewtimer.com\/regatta\/r15596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Live Results (CrewTimer.com)<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPenn&#8217;s Varsity Eight finished third in its heat on Friday, clocking 6:21.2 across the 2,000-meter course which was behind No. 11 UCF (6:15.5) and No. 15 Miami (6:18.9). The gut punch came in the next race, when Oklahoma finished third behind Duke and Alabama but clocked 6:21.1. That one-tenth of a second difference moved the Sooners into Saturday&#8217;s A Final ahead of the Quakers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nPenn&#8217;s Varsity Four and Third Varsity Eight advanced automatically via top-2 finishes in their heats, the 3V8 clocking 6:36.9 to defeat UCF (6:38.6) and Miami (6:51.5) while the V4A covered the course in 7:13.8 and finished second in its four-boat race behind UCF (7:09.9) but ahead of Miami (7:18.7) and Clemson (7:34.7). The Second Varsity Eight finished third in its heat in 6:30.8 and had to sweat out the second heat, but advanced to the A Final when SMU took third place in that\u00a0race with a time (6:38.0) that was well behind the Quakers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFriday Heats (vs. #11 UCF, #15 Miami, Clemson)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a01V8 \u2013 1. UCF 6:15.5; 2. Miami 6:18.9; 3. Penn 6:21.2; 4. Clemson 6:25.6<br \/>\n\u00a0 2V8 \u2013 1. UCF 6:25.0; 2. Miami 6:27.1; 3. Penn 6:30.8; 4. Clemson 6:39.8<br \/>\n\u00a0 V4A \u2013 1. UCF 7:09.9; 2. Penn 7:13.8; 3. Miami 7:18.7; 4. Clemson 7:34.7<br \/>\n\u00a0 3V8 \u2013 1. Penn 6:36.9; 2. UCF 6:38.6; 3. Miami 6:51.5<br \/>\nSaturday Finals<br \/>\n\u00a0 Racing starts at 7:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest on Penn women&#8217;s rowing, follow @PennWomensRowing on Instagram, and on the web at PennAthletics.com.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>#FightOnPenn<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; ORLANDO, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The 19th-ranked University of Pennsylvania women&#8217;s rowing team moved three of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-168671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-pennsylvania","9":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","10":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}