Mary Whipple

National Honors

• Won an NCAA Championship as coxswain for the UW varsity 8+ in 2001 and 2002 and with the varsity 4+ in 1999.
• Member of UW’s 2001 NCAA Championship team.
• Three-time CRCA first-team All-America in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

Conference Honors

• First-team All-Pac-10 in 2002.
• First-team Academic All-Pac-10 in 2001.
• Second-team Academic All-Pac-10 in 2000.
• Honorable mention Academic All-Pac-10 in 2002.

Other Athletic Honors/Awards

• Three-time Olympian.
• Coxed the U.S. women’s 8+ to a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics.
• Coxed the U.S. women’s 8+ to back-to-back gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games.
• Won World Championships in the U.S. women’s 8+ in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011.
• Coxswain of the UW crew that won the first-ever Henley Prize (women’s open 8; now known as the Remenham Challenge Cup) at the Henley Royal Regatta in 2000.
• 2013 Seattle Sports Star of the Year (also a finalist in 2004).

Post-UW Athletic Accomplishments

• Since retiring from competition, has run camps and clinics for coxswains.