Washington rowing coaches Michael Callahan and Yasmin Farooq swept Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors for the third year in a row, and Husky Ben Davison earned Pac-12 Men's Athlete of the Year, as the conference announced its postseason honors today.
 
Washington also placed four men and two women on the All-Pac-12 teams. Senior Marlee Blue (Seattle) and junior Tabea Schendekehl (Dortmund, Germany) made the women's squad while Davison was joined by fellow seniors Chris Carlson (Bedford, N.H.), Andrew Gaard (Madison, Wis.) and Madison Molitor (Moses Lake, Wash.) on the men's team.
 
Callahan, the UW men's coach, won the honor for the third year in a row and for the 10th time in his 12 years at the head of the program. Farooq, the Huskies' third-year women's head coach also won for the third year in a row and her fifth time overall (she also won as head coach at Stanford in 2009 and 2014). Washington won both the men's and women's Pac-12 title for the third season in a row in 2019.
 
Davison, a senior from Inverness, Fla., picked up athlete of the year honors on the men's side, having guided the UW varsity eight to an undefeated season as the team heads to the 2019 Intercollegiate Rowing Association national championships.
 
Davison was the first Husky named men's Pac-12 Athlete of the Year since Rob Munn, a 2016 U.S. Olympian, won the honor in 2012. Davison, the UW captain, won the men's championship single sculls at last fall's Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston before leading the Huskies to an unbeaten season thus far in the spring.
 
Carlson, Molitor and Gaard were all in the Husky varsity eight at Pac-12 Championships and won every race of the season. Carlson, a transfer from Marist, was the Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year in 2018 while Gaard was the USRowing Male Under-23 Athlete of the Year. All three were in the US men's eight that won the gold medal at the World Rowing Under-23 Championships last summer.
 
Blue and Schendekehl have both been fixtures in the women's varsity eight all season. Both were also selected to the All-Pac-12 team in 2018 as well. Blue rowed in the NCAA champion second varsity eight in 2017 and in the varsity eight that won silver last season, while Schendekehl won the varstiy eight NCAA title as a freshman in 2017 and then took the silver in that same boat last season.
 
This Friday through Sunday, the Huskies compete at national championship regattas. The women will row at the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis while the men travel to Lake Natoma outside of Sacramento for the IRA championship regatta.