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The Tennessee Volunteers women's rowing team is the most recently added sport at the University of Tennessee (UT). The team began in 1995 and since then has grown to new heights. Since 2014, the team has competed in the Big 12 Conference, which took over the rowing league formerly operated by Conference USA. UT is joined in Big 12 rowing by one ...
During her 12 years at the helm of the University of Tennessee women's rowing team, Head Coach Lisa Glenn has helped the 14-year-old program mature into a national power. Now in her 13th season, Glenn has led the Vols to seven appearances at the NCAA Championships, including three consecutive full-team selections in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010.
For many colleges with large male athletic teams, like football programs, women's rowing was an easy addition. [2] Women's collegiate rowing was added to the NCAA, and many universities began to add scholarships in order to attract women to the team. Rowing is unique in that many women who are highly competitive in other sports can also be very ...
I’d wager other schools would do well to match the contributions of the new Vols and Lady Vols.
An all-female rowing crew completed a record-breaking journey from San Francisco to Hawaii
Espeseth was a participant in the 1976 Summer Olympics and an alternate on the US rowing team for the 1980 Summer Olympics [1] but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal many years later. [2]
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The team won an Olympic gold medal. [2] She has also been part of the women's eight world championship winning team twice, in 2010 and 2011. [3] [4] Ritzel started rowing at Yale University, [5] from which she graduated in 2010. [6] While at Yale, she won the I Eight event three times at the NCAA Championships (2007, 2008, 2010).