Sprinting down the Montlake Cut course as if they had motors instead of oars, University of Washington men’s and women’s varsity crews set course records Saturday in winning Windermere Cup feature races.
The University of Washington rowing programs expect strong competition from the visiting Chinese rowers amid the passion and pageantry of Saturday’s Windermere Cup and the opening day of boating season in Seattle.
Sunday’s men’s championship eights race at the 52nd Head of the Charles Regatta was billed as a showdown between the Great Eight scullers (led by New Zealand’s Mahe Drysdale and Croatia’s Damir Martin), the Rio gold and silver medalists, and the Leander entry that sported half of Great Britain’s gold-medal eight and was headed by…
With one of the most storied histories in collegiate rowing, it is no wonder that Washington rowers have such a prominent presence at the Olympics. The eight former Huskies who are competing for the U.S. make up nearly 20 percent of the current Olympic rowing team.
KUOW’s Marcie Sillman posted this story today about UW rowing. Make sure to check out all the links within the story as well for audio, video and photos.
Since the USSR’s participation in the first Windermere Cup during the Cold War, Seattle’s annual crew extravaganza has remained a prestigious rowing regatta across the globe. Now the Russians return for the race’s 30th running.
UW women’s crew interim head coach Conor Bullis is profiled in The Seattle Times.
The PBS series “American Experience” will air an hour-long documentary on “The Boys in the Boat,” the 1936 Washington crew that won Olympic Gold, made famous by the best-selling book by Daniel James Brown on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at 9:00 p.m.
With its annual intramural Class Day Regatta, rowing season at Washington opened with two questions: One, after winning a fifth straight national championship last year, can UW’s men win a sixth? And two, after November’s ouster of coach Bob Ernst, who’s the interim coach?
GoHuskies staff writer profiles interim women’s rowing head coach Conor Bullis.