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UUW MEN’S CREW COACH Michael Callahan, ’96, has a message for
the other college rowing powers hoping to stop the Huskies from
repeating as national champions: Steer clear.
The Huskies, winners of five straight team titles at the prestigious
Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships, set their sights
on winning more gold at this year’s event May 31–June 2 on Cooper
River in Cherry Hill, N.J.
“We have a strong class of 2012 that future classes are going to be
measured against,” says Callahan, whose Huskies also will be seeking
a remarkable fourth Varsity Eight title in the past six years at IRA.
“They will be compared with some of the other great classes here.”
The Row to the Top
Men’s 2012 crew may be one of best in Husky history
Husky Sports
Last year, the Huskies grabbed gold in four of five heavyweight IRA
events to capture the Jim “Ten” Eyck Trophy, which is awarded to the
team that accumulates the most overall points. This time around,
Callahan—who rowed for legendary UW coach Bob Ernst, ’79, from
1992-96 before returning as coach in 2007—has his team aiming for
an improbable, but not impossible, clean sweep of the main events.
To achieve that feat, members of the Varsity Eight (which lost five
key members of the squad that won the 2011 title), Second Varsity
Eight, Freshman Eight, Open Four and Varsity Four will need to be
at their best to fend off expected challengers Harvard, Cal, Brown,
Princeton and Wisconsin.—Scott Kline
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The Huskies’ Distance Medley Relay team won the first NCAA
indoor championship in the history of the UW women’s program.
Chelsea Orr, Jordan Carlson, Baylee Mires and Katie
Flood ran to the national title in 11 minutes, 5.20 seconds
at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in
Nampa, Idaho, in March.
The Wayne Gittinger Baseball Team Building
opened in March. It is the big first step in the upgrade
of UW baseball facilities. The project was funded
by Wayne Gittinger, ’57, a pitcher on the Husky
baseball team in the 1950s, his wife Anne, ’55, and
the UW Athletic Department.
Sophomore Aliza Vaccher tied for 17th on
the vault at the 2012 National Collegiate Women’s
Gymnastics Championships. She also placed
20th in the all-around. The Huskies barely missed
getting a berth in the NCAAs, placing third just a
quarter of a point behind second-place LSU.
Follow Husky sports at gohuskies.com
Junior golfer Chris Williams set a UW record by recording his
fifth career victory at the Bandon Dunes Championship event in
Oregon on March 17. He was 9 under par for the 54-hole event
to move him past Brock Mackenzie and Nick Taylor in the UW
record books. Each had four wins their illustrious All-
American careers.
The Husky men’s basketball team will host
two games at Alaska Airlines Arena in November
as part of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall
of Fame Tip-Off Tournament. Washington will host
Loyola (Md.) and Albany and then travel to the East
Coast to play two games.
Jazmine Davis was named Second
Team Freshman All-American
after averaging 15.7 points a game for
the Husky women’s basketball team.
She was also named Pac-12 Freshman
Player of the Year and to the Pac-12 All-
Conference Team.
UWalum.com/Columns June 2012
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