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Saving Lives as Rowing Crew Alumni

A well-known acronym for TEAM is Together Everyone Achieves More, and that is certainly something Dr. Cassandra Duncan-Azadi, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the University of Oklahoma Children's Hospital, draws upon each day.

Duncan-Azadi (BS '06) is one of more than 40 former University of Tulsa rowing student-athletes who have entered the medical profession since Head Coach Kevin Harris' arrival on campus in 2002, that's nearly 25% of all rowing graduates. She, like other TU rowing alumnae, relates a lot of her present-day work back to her college years.

The health care profession has been thrown into the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the professionalism, teamwork and dedication among these women has only gotten stronger.