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A COLLECTIVE BREATH WAFTED UP to the wooden rafters of Conibear Shellhouse, a soft cadence of repeated hushes exhaled into the space. Hshh … Hshh … Hshh. In unison, forty women with their eyes steady on an imaginary horizon, another championship, pulled back on the handles of rowing machines, pushing through their legs and exhaling with the machine’s pneumatic coil—Hshh—the entire gym one large organism whose whispers recalled a tradition tracing back far before the 1936 Olympics. In 2013, the New York Times bestseller The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown took millions of readers to a time when America struggled under the weight of the Great Depression and had just begun to turn its attention to the rising wave of fascism under Hitler’s Germany. Coming from relative poverty and obscurity, the boys of the University of Washington’s rowing team would beat the elites of sport and the Swastika-clad Aryan crew in Berlin in 1936. These lads, their colorful mentor Al Ulbrickson and shell-maker George Pocock embodied American innovation and optimism as they raced their way into rowing lore. Now comes the UW women’s rowing team—girls in the boat. On May 28 last year, University of Washington’s women swept all three events—the first and second varsity eights and the four—making it the first team to win all grand finals in the twenty-one-year history of the NCAA Regatta. History was teetering when the eight rowers plus coxswain from the University of Washington stepped into their racing shell at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, New Jersey, the home course of Princeton University. The clouds they were used to, as the UW rowers live and train in Seattle where rain is a constant element of any outdoor pursuit. To their left was their perennial rival, Cal, whom UW had overpowered in the Pac-12 championships two weeks prior. Cal’s coach, Al Acosta, had coached with UW coach Yasmin “Yaz” Farooq at Stanford. To the right was Stanford, the sixth-seed boat, whose strengths Yaz knew well, having recruited all of them. While Cal has always gunned for UW, the Stanford crew had a personal reason to take it to the UW boat with revenge in mind. The last time Stanford had won an NCAA championship was in 2009, with Yaz as coach. The Huskies’ varsity eight boat gobsmacked Stanford in the Pac-12 championships, putting eight seconds into its rivals. This fire burned for the Stanford women. As the flag dropped, the Washington women pulled to an early lead and maintained it into the final 500 meters of the 2,000-meter race. Stanford made up time in the second half of the race, taking back one second of the UW’s two-second margin. It would not be good enough to pass the determined finish by Washington, who crossed the line and shattered records. “I remember smiling at that point,” Yaz recalled. “It was strangely perfect. I knew what every woman in both of those 54 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE FEBRUARY | MARCH 2018
UW sculls and shells line the walls at Conibear Shellhouse. IT WAS STRANGELY PERFECT. I KNEW WHAT EVERY WOMAN IN BOTH OF THOSE BOATS WAS CAPABLE OF DOING. —YAZ FAROOQ FEBRUARY | MARCH 2018 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE 55
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