Washington's women's rowing program was extremely well-represented on the Pac-12 All-Century Women's Rowing Team. Longtime UW women's coach Jan Harville was named Pac-12 Women's Rowing Coach of the Century and the Huskies' 1997 varsity eight was honored as Varsity Eight of the Century.

The Pac-12 All-Century Rowing teams were announced tonight as part of a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of what is now the Pac-12 Conference.

In addition to Harville and the 1997 crew (which was coached by Harville), 10 Husky women made the 25-member team: eight rowers and two coxswains. The All-Century members from Washington were: Betsy Beard (1980-83), Susan Broome (1980-82), Rika Geyser (1998-2001), Megan Kalmoe (2004-06), Katie Maloney (1994-96), Anna Mickelson Cummins (1999-2002), Kristi Norelius (1981-82), Shyril O'Steen (1980-1981), Sabina Telenska (1997-2000) and Mary Whipple (1999-2002).

Harville, herself a UW rower and two-time U.S. Olympic team member (1980, 1984), was the Huskies' head women's coach from 1988 until her retirement following the 2003 season. Her crews won 13 Pac-10 championships (including 11 in a row), three NCAA championships (1997, 1998, 2001) and, before the NCAA began sponsorship, the 1988 National Collegiate Rowing Association title.

Harville, who was inducted into the National Rowing Hall of Fame in 1991 (as a part of the 1980 U.S. crew) and the Husky Hall of Fame in 2006, was a nine-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year and worked as a national team coach a number of times at a variety of competitions.

Harville's 1997 varsity eight was honored as the Pac-10 Women's Eight of the Century, thanks to having won the first NCAA championships in history that year. The 1997 varsity eight (cox - Alida Puves, stroke - Sabina Telenska, 7 - Denni Nessler, 6 - Kelly Horton, 5 - Katy Dunnet, 4 - Annie Christie, 3 - Jan Williamson, 2 - Tristine Glick, bow - Kari Green) rowed to the NCAA crown in 6:31.8, ahead of second-place Massachusetts, which 5.2 seconds behind. With a second-place finish in both the Second Varsity 8 and the Varsity 4 that day on Lake Natoma, Washington won the inaugural NCAA championship.

Here's a brief bio of each of the 10 Huskies named to the Pac-12 Women's Rowing All-Century Team:

Coxswain Betsy Beard (1980-83) led the Huskies to the Varsity 8+ national championship in 1983, a year after having won the championship in the JV boat in 1982. A year later, Beard coxed the United States women's 8+ to a gold medal at the Olympics in Los Angeles, teaming with fellow former Huskies Shyril O'Steen and Kristi Norelius (both also All-Century members). She returned as the U.S. cox in the 1988 Olympics as well. After the 1984 Games, she was inducted, along with her U.S. eight, into the National Rowing Hall of Fame.

Susan Broome (1980-82) rowed in the No. 3 seat in two NRCA champion eights, in 1981 and 1982, the first two of Washington's 10 women's national titles. Broome attended the 1984 Olympic games as an alternate with the U.S. team before rowing in the women's eight in the 1988 Games in Seoul.

South African Rika Geyser (1998-2001) rowed in the No. 5 seat in the Husky varsity 8+ that won the NCAA championship in 2001, her senior year. She went on to compete in numerous World Cup and World Championship regattas for her home country, culminating with a berth in the 2008 Beijing games as a single sculler.

Megan Kalmoe (2004-06) earned both All-America and Academic All-Americas a senior at Washington. After graduation, Kalmoe rowed in the U.S. double sculls at the 2008 Olympics, finishing fifth. Four years later in London, she won bronze in the quadruple sculls. Kalmoe was named the 2014 US Women's Rower of the Year before winning the gold medal at the 2015 World Championships in the quad, the boat she hopes to make once again for the 2016 Olympic Games.

Katie Maloney (1994-96) won a national title in the Huskies' JV8+ in 1994 before embarking on a long career with the U.S. National Team. She was part of the United State women's eight that took fourth at the 1997 World Championships and second the next two years. In 2000, she rowed in the Olympic Games in the women's eight that finished sixth.

Anna Mickelson Cummins (1999-2002) won back-to-back NCAA varsity eight championships in 2001 and 2001 (including the NCAA team title in 2001) before embarking on a successful career with the U.S. team. She was a silver medalist in the women's eight at the 2004 Olympics before retiring at the top of her game, having rowed in the gold-medal eight at the 2008 Games, having also won World Championships in 2006 and 2007. In 2014, Mickelson was inducted into the Husky Hall of Fame (as an individual) and the National Rowing Hall of Fame (as a member of the 2008 U.S. eight).

Kristi Norelius (1981-82), along with Betsy Beard and Shyril O'Steen, was part of a group that put UW women's rowing on the map in the early 1980s, rowing in national championship varsity eights in 1981 and 1982. Norelius was a member of the 1980 Olympics team (boycotted) and then returned in 1984 to win gold in Los Angeles in the U.S. eight. She also won a pair of silver medals in World Championship regattas. As a member of the '84 crew, she earned a spot in the National Rowing Hall of Fame.

Shyril O'Steen (1980-1981) rowed in the seven seat of the Huskies' first-ever women's crew to win a varsity eight national title. From there, she joined the U.S. National program, working her way from a bronze medal (in the coxed-four) at the 1982 World Championships, to a silver medal in the eight at the 1983 Worlds, to Olympic gold at the 1984 Olympics, when she teamed with fellow Huskies Beard and Norelius. She is a member of the National Rowing Hall of Fame as a part of the 1984 U.S. crew.

Sabina Telenska (1997-2000) came to the UW from the Czech Republic and sat in the stroke seat for the first two varsity eights ever to win NCAA championships, in 1997 and 1998. A two-time, first-team All-American, she entered college having already rowed in two Olympic Games, in 1992 with Czechoslovakia (eight) and in 1996 with the Czech Republic (coxless pair),

Mary Whipple (1999-2002) might very well be the most highly-decorated women's coxswain in United States history. At the UW, she won NCAA championships in the four (1999) and the eight (2001 and 2002), also earning the team title in 2001. At the Olympic level, she was the cox for the U.S. women's eight that won silver in 2004 and then back-to-back gold in 2008 and 2012. She's also won five gold medals at World Championships (2002, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011). As the cox of the 2008 U.S. gold medalists, Whipple was inducted into the National Rowing Hall of Fame in 2014.

Pac-12 Women's Rowing All-Century Team

ROWERS
Eleanor “Elle” Logan - Stanford, 2007-11
Anna Mickelson Cummins – Washington, 1999-02
Erin Cafaro - California, 2006
Carol Bower - UCLA, 1978-79
Megan Kalmoe - Washington, 2004-06
Kristi Norelius - Washington, 1981-82
Grace Luczak - Stanford, 2009-11
Kara Kohler - California, 2010-14
Laurel Korholz - California, 1992-93
Susan Broome - Washington, 1980-82
Shyril O'Steen - Washington, 1980-1981
Jan Palchikoff - UCLA, 1974-75
Sabina Telenska - Washington, 1997-2000
Samantha Magee - Stanford, 2003-06
Rika Geyser - Washington, 1998-2001
Iva Obradovic - California, 2009-10
Amy Martin - Oregon State, 1994-96
Megan Dirkmaat - California, 1999-00
Katie Maloney - Washington, 1994-96
Sabrina Kolker - Stanford, 1999-2002
Connie Carpenter Phinney - California, 1979-80
Lisa Roman - Washington State, 2009-12

COXSWAINS
Mary Whipple – Washington, 1999-2002
Betsy Beard - Washington, 1980-83
Jill Costello - California, 2007-10

COACH OF THE CENTURY
Jan Harville - Washington, 1988-2003

ROWER OF THE CENTURY
Eleanor “Elle” Logan - Stanford, 2007-11

VARSITY EIGHT OF THE CENTURY
Washington, 1997