UW Men Sweep 108th Cal Dual
Washington’s men’s rowing team won all four races today in the 108th Cal Dual on Montlake Cut.
Washington’s men’s rowing team won all four races today in the 108th Cal Dual on Montlake Cut.
Washington’s women’s varsity four won the Karen Plumleigh Cortney Cup, the third varsity took home the Carley Copley Cup, and UW crews earned the silver medal in three other events Sunday on the final day of the San Diego Crew Classic
It all began with happenstance meeting with a Greek rowing legend. Sofia Asoumanaki was 16 and vacationing with her family on a beach in Greece when Greek Olympic medalist and now rowing coach Vasileios Polymeros noticed her playing volleyball.
Andrew Gaard looks more like a mechanical engineer than someone named the top under-23 rower in the country. But the University of Washington senior is both.
The traditional beginning of the UW’s spring rowing season comes this Saturday, March 23, with the 118th Class Day Regatta. Racing on the Montlake Cut begins at 10:00 a.m. PT.
Washington rowing’s men’s eight won the Temple Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta Sunday, beating a crew from Oxford Brookes University in record time.
Washington Rowing and the Henley Royal Regatta each boast a proud tradition together, one that dates back 60 years.
The Washington men’s rowing team took home the James Ten Eyck Trophy as the overall points winner for the 11th time in the last 12 years, but for the second year in a row, it was Yale that won the national title as winner of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association varsity eight grand final Sunday at Mercer Lake.
The No. 1-ranked Washington men’s rowing team heads to Lake Mercer in West Windsor, N.J., for the 116th Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships this Friday through Sunday. The Huskies will compete in all four heavyweight categories at IRAs. Racing begins at 8 a.m. ET on Friday.
Washington and California, the top two women’s rowing teams in the Pac-12 and in the nation, battled down to the wire at the 2018 NCAA Rowing Championships, finishing first and second in all three grand finals, but the Golden Bears won two out of those three to earn the national title.