The Tulsa rowing team faced three top-12 teams in the first day of racing at the Lake Natoma Invitational in Gold River, Calif.
"I thought the team had some really good racing today," Head Coach Kevin Harris said. "Our goal was to jump in and take these teams on and I think we've done that pretty successfully. It is nice to see us improving against some of the best teams out there. We are going to go out tomorrow and continue to improve, which is our goal, to leave California better than we arrived."
In the morning races, the Golden Hurricane took on California, ranked second in the latest CRCA/USRowing poll, as well as Notre Dame.