INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Falcons fans can find out the fate of the Seattle Pacific crews on Monday afternoon when the NCAA Division II Women's Rowing Selection Show airs live on NCAA.com. The selection show broadcast is slated for 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on May 16.

SPU seeks to be among the fortunate few fleets that receive one of six invitations to the NCAA regatta.

The Falcons staked their claim to consideration for a berth with a second-place showing across the board at Saturday's Great Northwest Athletic Conference Championships on Dexter Lake in Lowell, Oregon. They were runners-up in the team standings along with the varsity eight and varsity four races.

Seattle Pacific won't get the No. 1 seed in the West, so must hope to receive one of three at-large bids from the NCAA selection committee.

The top seed from each of the three regions receives an automatic berth to the 2022 NCAA Championships, set for May 27 and 28 in Sarasota, Florida. That trio will be joined by three at-large entries. All six nationals qualifiers will compete their varsity eight and varsity four crews.

Western Washington may have locked up the top spot in the West Region with Saturday's first-place GNAC performance and would receive the automatic qualifying berth accompanying that status. That leaves SPU to vie for an at-large invitation along with three-time defending national champion Central Oklahoma from the West.

The West Region produced three of the top-four finishers at the last full-field NCAA Championships of six teams. Central Oklahoma won the 2019 national title, Western Washington placed third and SPU fourth in 2019. The 2020 championship regatta was canceled due to the pandemic, which limited last year's competition was limited to a four-team field.

Despite being listed second in the national coaches poll and a No. 2 West Region ranking, the Falcons were not invited to participate at the 2021 NCAA Championships.

"Last year, as hard and traumatic as it was to not get an NCAA invitation, we learned that you don't control everything and things don't always make sense," said second-year SPU coach Caitlin McClain, who hopes for a better outcome when the 2022 field is revealed Monday afternoon. "It's about resilience, a word that our athletes have used a lot this year in response to last year."