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AMONG THE TEAM’S FORTY MEMBERS ARE KIDS FROM WASHINGTON, CALIFORNIA, VERMONT, VIRGINIA, ENGLAND, GERMANY + ITALY. SOME HAVE NO ROWING EXPERIENCE. SOME COME FROM EUROPEAN ROWING ELITE. endurance sports. Beuke’s mom was already on the water, kayaking the banks of the Olympic Peninsula and the world over looking for smooth pieces of sea glass for her jewelrymaking business. To the west of the small town of Sequim lie the Olympic Mountains, to the north Victoria, British Columbia, and 70 miles to the southeast, the University of Washington. While the Olympic Peninsula sees an average of 140 inches of rain per year, Sequim and its surrounding area falls in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains, making it a dry, cool place for training on the water. Beuke began rowing on a two-oared scull at Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association, a local club founded by John Halberg, a UW crew member from the 1958 class. Halberg helped found the club in 2007 and, in 2012, recruited Brazilian cox Rodrigo Rodrigues to take over coaching at the fledgling club. “John Halberg, the president of my rowing association, bought the boat I row in for me,” Beuke said. “Without him, I wouldn’t be rowing.” In high school, Beuke quit basketball and volleyball to focus on rowing, and she read Brown’s The Boys in the Boat. “I think it had a unique effect on me because I’m from Sequim and Joe Rantz was from Sequim,” she recalled. On January 6, 2017, Halberg died of a heart attack while rowing. Four months later, Beuke would cross the finish line and, as a freshman, make rowing history for his alma mater. The local newspaper, the Sequim Gazette, connected Halberg’s recruit, Rodrigues, and Beuke in an article about Halberg’s legacy. “Rodrigues helped build the club’s junior program and coached the likes of Sequim’s Elise Beuke, who placed seventh at the World Junior Championships in 2015 and earned a scholarship to row at the University of Washington.” Beginning Beuke’s sophomore year, UW brought in a new head coach. “I was excited because Yaz was an Olympian and a cox like my high school coach, Rodrigues,” she said. Beuke began to notice the team’s training was “so much more organized and intentional,” she said. “We knew that we were doing this workout today because it was targeting these specific muscles and would help us in different parts of the race. This really helped people take ownership of this workout.” Among the team’s forty members are kids from Washington, California, Vermont, Virginia, England, Germany and Italy. Some have no rowing experience. Some come from European rowing elite. Carmela Pappalardo, “Pappi,” started rowing when she was 12. Her father, Rosario Pappalardo, a competitive rower, was her coach. The youngest of six children, Pappi grew up watching her older brothers row. She began rowing in the Tyrrhenian Sea, between mainland Salerno, Italy and Sardinia. In the shadow of the Santa Maria Asunto Church and along the steep cliffs of the Amalfi coast, Pappi focused on technique bobbing in the ocean chop. “In the sea, it was really difficult,” she said. “Sometimes it was really boring because I like rowing with other people and I was in a single.” Competition rowing was going well, and Pappi was invited to join the Circolo Canottiere Aniene rowing club in Rome, where she was also enrolled in school. The logistics of pursuing education and rowing in Rome, she said, was hard. “My university was so far away from my club. It took me two buses and forty minutes to get there,” she said. In 2016, she got a call from the UW rowing team. “Early on, I realized that I could go to UW and get a scholarship,” 58 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE FEBRUARY | MARCH 2018
she said. “I studied English since high school and tried very hard. I came from a small town. This was a big opportunity.” In her first year at UW, Pappi found the people friendly, felt at home (albeit a home with inferior pasta and pizza) and rowed to a first-place finish in the second varsity eights boat. “It was amazing!” she said. “We were all working together very well. Every race, I just try to do my best and stay focused from the first to last stroke.” This season, the 22-year-old hopes to make the first varsity boat and perhaps find more authentic southern Italian food. The team’s goals, however, will be focused on the Pac- 12 championships May 13 in Gold River, California, with Stanford and Cal gunning for them. Two weeks later at the NCAA championships in Florida, the girls in the boat and their second-year coach will wrestle with the notion that they could repeat last year’s unprecedented sweep. FROM TOP In 2017, UW swept the NCAA Regatta, finishing first in all three events—the first and second varsity eights and the four. When Coach Yaz arrived at UW, she changed how the team trains. LEARN TO ROW Lake Union Crew Seattle lakeunioncrew.com Lake Washington Rowing Club Seattle lakewashingtonrowing.com George Pocock Rowing Foundation Seattle pocockfoundation.org Everett Rowing Association Everett everettrowing.com Spokane River Rowing Association Spokane spokanerowing.org Sammamish Rowing Association Sammamish sammamishrowing.org Olympia Area Rowing Association Olympia olympiaarearowing.org Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association Port Angeles olympicpeninsularowingassociation.org Vancouver Lake Rowing Club Vancouver vancouverlakerowingclub.com Whatcom Rowing Association Bellingham whatcomrowing.org Commencement Bay Rowing Club Lakewood combayrow.net UW WOMEN’S ROWING SCHEDULE USC | March 3 CLASS DAY REGATTA | March 24 HUSKY OPEN | March 31 Texas/U of Michigan | April 14 California | April 21 WINDERMERE CUP | May 5 PAC-12 Championships | May 13 NCAA Championships | May 25-27 *Home races in bold and at Montlake Cut, Seattle FEBRUARY | MARCH 2018 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE 59
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