Washington's head coach
Yasmin Farooq was named Pac-12 Coach of Year, and a total of four Huskies earned first-team All-Pac-12 as the conference announced its rowing honors today.
Farooq, in her first year as head coach of Washington, became the first coach ever to win an NCAA National Championship with two different schools after the team swept all three races at the championships last weekend. In addition, no other coach had ever before won an NCAA rowing title in his or her first season at the winning school.
Four UW women –
Elise Beuke,
Katy Gillingham,
Chiara Ondoli, and
Phoebe Marks-Nicholes – made the all-conference team.
Beuke, Gillingham, and Marks-Nicholes rowed in the women's varsity eight boat in every race during the 2017 season, while Ondoli rowed in both the second varsity and first varsity eight throughout the season.
Beuke, after learning to scull as a senior in high school, earned a spot on the 2015 U.S Junior National team and placed 7
th at the Junior World's in Rio de Janeiro. Last season she rowed in the second varsity eight that won bronze at the NCAA Championships. This year she was part of the winning varsity eight at the 2017 Pac-12 and NCAA Championships.
Gillingham, a Seattle, Wash. native, earned herself a spot on the 2017 All-Pac-12 team after being named the Pac-12 Co-Newcomer of the Year at last season's end. As a freshman she rowed in the varsity eight for the majority of the year. In 2017 she rowed in the winning varsity eight throughout the season and in the winning boat at the 2017 Pac-12 and NCAA Championships.
Ondoli, a junior from Angera, Italy, has rowed in the varsity eight for the majority of the last two seasons. Before coming to Washington she earned three National Championships in the Italian Single. As a senior in 2017 she was part of the winning varsity eight at both the Pac-12 and NCAA Championships.
Marks-Nicholes, a junior from Seattle, Wash., has coxed the majority of the varsity eight races over the last two seasons, and every race of the 2017 season. This year, she coxed the varsity eight that won all but one race, while earning championships at the Pac-12's and NCAA's.
