If Michael Callahan were the Husky football coach, there’d be a 50-foot-high statue of him on campus. Callahan’s UW crew team won their third consecutive national championship in June, making four in Callahan’s six years as coach. The Husky varsity eight hasn’t lost on American soil in three years. In July the Huskies beat the Polish national team and finished just one length back of the British national team at the Henley Regatta in London, rowing’s most prestigious event. (The 2004 race, in which the Winklevoss twins competed for Harvard, was re-enacted in The Social Network.) Imagine the Husky basketball team beating Argentina and losing to Spain on a buzzer-beater. That’s the equivalent. Callahan was a star rower for UW in the mid-’90s, later competing internationally and making the 2004 Olympics. He’s only the ninth coach in the 104-year history of UW crew, and at just 39 seems likely to continue delivering championships well into the program’s second century. Maybe that statue will eventually get built.
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