UW Athletic Hall of Fame
Yasmin Farooq
- Induction:
- 2021
- Wisconsin women’s rowing 1984-88
- Coxed the Badgers’ junior varsity eight boat to the 1986 national championship
- Team captain and MVP as a senior
- Two-time Olympian, finishing sixth in the eight in 1992 and fourth in the eight in 1996
- Member of four World Championship teams, winning the USA’s first-ever gold in 1995 and silver in 1990, 1993 and 1994
- Head coach of Washington women’s rowing program (2016-current), winning the NCAA title her first year
- First coach to win a NCAA title in first season
- Head coach of Stanford women’s rowing program (2006-16), leading the Cardinal to their first NCAA title in school history in 2009
- First coach to lead two NCAA programs to national championships, Stanford in 2009 and Washington in 2017
- First coach to sweep the NCAA Championships in 2017 and 2019
- Six-time Pac-12 Coach of the Year (2008, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
- Three-time National Coach of the Year (2009, 2017, 2019)
- Inducted into the National Rowing Hall of Fame in 2014
- Coach of the 2012 US. Under 23 women’s eight that won gold at the World Championships
- Has worked as a rowing commentator for four Olympic games for NBC
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