Call her Yaz. “Everybody does,” says Yasmin Farooq, a two-time Olympian who was announced as the new head women’s rowing coach at Washington on Wednesday.
After coaching the Stanford women’s program the past 10 years and winning an NCAA championship in 2009, Farooq on Monday accepted Washington’s offer to become the long-term replacement for Bob Ernst. In late November Ernst was abruptly dismissed after 41 years following complaints by some athletes to UW administrators about his coaching style.
The Huskies were coached this season by interim head coach Conor Bullis, a five-year UW assistant, who interviewed for the position on June 3.