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100 years of history of rowing at UW
100 years of history
Rowing at Washington dates to 1901, when the first Class Day race was held. Crew was recognized as a "major" sport beginning in 1904, the year the Huskies won the Pacific Coast Championship. Women's rowing, after a brief period of competition in the early 1900s, returned as a club sport in 1969 and as an intercollegiate varsity sport in 1976.
National championships: The UW men's varsity eight has won 12 national titles, the first in 1923, the most recent in 1997. The women's varsity eight has won 11 national titles, including the past two.
Pac-10 titles: The UW men's varsity eight has won 28 of 43 Pac-10/Pacific Coast titles; the UW women have won 22 of 27 Pac-10/Pacific Coast championships.
Olympics: The UW men's varsity eight won the Olympic gold medal in 1936 in Berlin. In 1948, the Huskies' coxed four-man crew won gold in London. In 1952, a UW coxed four captured the bronze in Helsinki. And 52 Huskies (42 men, 10 women) have rowed in the Olympics.
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