Alumni Profile: Melissa Calkins

For many competitive athletes, the trophy is the focus and the ultimate indicator of success. For athletes like Melissa Calkins, cultivating relationships with her teammates proved as rewarding as collecting wins. With an impressive and varied career spanning the 1996-’99 seasons, she started out as a freshman on the UW men’s team. It was only…

Race Day Guide

Come out and cheer on the Huskies on the Montlake Cut this year. Here’s a guide to help you plan your race day. Don’t forget to wear purple and cheer loudly! See race schedule here. RACE VIEWING Anywhere along the Montlake Cut provides excellent viewing of the races, but here are three areas that are…

Campaign to 1000

Be hungry. Be humble. Be fast. Those were the words I heard as a freshman in 1979 as the class of ‘82 sat together on the floor of the south boat bay as our alums prepared us for the racing season. I will never forget it. Almost 40 years later those words still define who…

Boat Christenings: Celebrating Our Legacy

The Washington Rowing program celebrated twice on Saturday, Feb. 25, with the launching of a new Empacher Men’s 8—dubbed the “Grand Challenger” after the iconic Henley victories in 1977—and the christening of a new state-of-the-art coach’s launch, “The Spirit of ’66.” On hand were members of the 1977 Henley Visitor’s Cup and Grand Challenge Champions,…

Stewards’ Letter, March 2017

Dear Friends, Momentum accompanies change and is often unpredictable. Frequently time reveals momentum’s bias. For Washington Rowing, change was an apt descriptor of last year, but the momentum that has followed is clearly forward. As the school year began, conversations focused on how the women would respond to their new coach and how the men…