Karle Pittsinger won a state title in the shot put at Chelan High, then picked a college sport she had never tried. Now she is team captain for the national champions.
UW oarsman Bram Schwarz is from Haarlem, Netherlands. He comes from a family of Olympic rowers.
The Huskies open another season of high expectations as the women are coming off a historic sweep and the men are looking to win the title they narrowly missed out on last year.
‘The perfect moment’: It’s what gets UW rowers through the early mornings and hard work. A day in the life of UW Rowing.
On May 28, 2017, University of Washington’s women swept all three events—the first and second varsity eights and the four—making it the first team to win all grand finals in the twenty-one-year history of the NCAA Regatta. History was teetering when the eight rowers plus coxswain from the University of Washington stepped into their racing…
The three-day Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta opens Friday near Sacramento. The Huskies are hoping to claim men’s and women’s national titles in the same year for the first time since 1997.
You have to be a little different to be a rower. You have to learn to make pain your friend. Maybe that explains one of the Washington women’s rowing team’s mottos this year: Embrace the suck.
Watch: The Huskies are the 2017 #NCAARow National Champions.
Washington won the NCAA women’s rowing title Sunday, making the Pac-12 Conference the first league to reach 500 national championships. The top-ranked Huskies beat Stanford and California by a comfortable margin in the final race Sunday at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, New Jersey, posting a time of 6:36.939 in the varsity eight grand final.
The University of Washington women’s rowing team didn’t just win another NCAA national championship, the Huskies made history in storming to their fourth team title. Washington swept all three grand events Sunday for the first time in the 21-year history of the regatta.