Sweep Season Review – Summer 2017 – Download
Download the pdf version of the Sweep Fall 2017 Annual Report.
Stewards’ Letter
Friends, It seems gratuitous to fill this space with words when just two will do. THANK YOU! Thank you to those of you who support the program year over year; to those of you who are first time donors; and to those of you who have come back to the program after some time off.…
Women’s Season Review: Trust, Teamwork, Toughness: The Three T’s to the Triple Crown
By Yazmin Farooq “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.” –Dalai Lama XIV A year has passed since the beginning of this adventure: a team yearning to be respected, eager to add to the Washington Rowing legacy, hungry to write the future. A collection of coaches…
Men’s Season Review: Shared Values
By Michael Callahan “NOW this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.” – Rudyard Kipling We set out on the 2016-17 season to re-establish some specific common values for our team.…
Off the Water: Q&A with Josh Gautreau, Women’s Assistant Coach and Lead Recruiter
Josh Gautreau joined Washington Rowing in July 2016. Previously he was the assistant coach at the University of Virginia. Gautreau began rowing at Syracuse University, where he graduated in 2006 with a degree in physics. He is currently working toward a master’s degree in exercise science. What’s surprised you most about Seattle? The seaplanes. I’ve…
Student-Athlete Feature: Andre Mattus
Andre Mattus Arlington, WA BS Microbiology, ‘17 Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Minor Varsity Coxswain, UW Men’s Rowing Team Anyone who’s ever rowed knows a coxswain’s entire job is built on trust. “Building this level of trust requires an understanding of differences,” says varsity men’s coxswain, Andre Mattus, ’17. Mattus was selected as one of…
Walk-Ons: A Washington Rowing Tradition
At the beginning of each season, new members join in workouts with the aim of becoming part of the team. The grueling, long hours of tryouts will separate out those who want to become part of something truly special. This process values the team over the individual. As racing season begins, the teams are named.…
Huskies Compete Internationally
With Washington’s highly-successful collegiate season in the books for 2016-17, the eyes of the rowing world turn to the summer international competitions, where the Husky program should be very well represented, by both current undergraduates and alumni. Husky alums are making their way to the top of their national team programs, including Kirstyn Goodger, ’14,…
Huskies Sweep 2017 Windermere Cup
The sun was shining and so were the Huskies at the 31st Annual Windermere Cup on May 7. Both the men’s and women’s varsity eights set Montlake Cut 2,000 meter course records to claim the Windermere Cup over the men’s and women’s Shanghai High-Performance rowing teams. Washington also took home the Erickson Cascade Cup in…
From Transition to Triumph – The Story of the ’88 Women
By Eric Cohen The alarm clock went off at 3:30 a.m. Eastern time (12:30 a.m. Seattle time). Monday morning, June 6, 1988. Time to race for a National Championship. For the women of Washington, it was just another adjustment. They had spent most of the year getting up in the dark and practicing at dawn,…