Pac-12 Men's and Women’s Rowing All-Century teams

The Pac-12 All-Century Rowing teams were announced May 9, 2016 as part of a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of what is now the Pac-12 Conference. Twenty-two of the 25 members on the Men's Rowing All-Century team are Olympians, and all-century team members have competed in 39 Olympic games with a total of 26 Olympic medals won. Meanwhile, 22 of the 25 members of the Women's Rowing All-Century Team are Olympians who have competed in 35 Olympic games. In all, members of the team have won 19 Olympic medals. The teams, comprised of 22 rowers and 3 coxswains, were voted on by a panel consisting of coaches, rowers, administrators and members of the media. Each member of the team was chosen based on their collegiate careers in the Conference.

From UCLA three men and two women were selected.

Pac-12 Men's Rowing All-Century Team

ROWERS

Jake Wetzel - California, 1999-2002
Conn Findlay - USC, 1949-52
Scott Frandsen - California, 2000-02
Sebastian Bea - California, 1996-99
Kevin Still - UCLA, 1980-83
Conlin McCabe - Washington, 2009-13
Duvall Hecht - Stanford, 1949-52
Michael Still - UCLA, 1985-87
David Calder - Washington, 1998-2001
Larry Hough - Stanford, 1963-66
Luke Walton - California, 2000-01
Joey Hansen - Oregon State, 1999-2001
Don Hume - Washington, 1936-38
Dan Ayrault - Stanford, 1956-1959
Joe Rantz - Washington, 1935-37
Josh Inman - Oregon State, 2000-02
Mladen Stegic - California, 2001-03
Will Crothers - Washington, 2006-09
Matt Deakin - Washington, 2000-02
Kerry Turner - UCLA, 1976-78
Rob Munn - Washington, 2009-12
Pete Donlon - California, 1925-28

COXSWAINS

Pete Cipollone - California, 1991-94
Robert Moch - Washington, 1935-36
Kent Mitchell - Stanford, 1958-61

COACH OF THE CENTURY

Ky Ebright - California, 1924-1959

ROWER OF THE CENTURY

Jake Wetzel - California, 1999-02

VARSITY EIGHT OF THE CENTURY

Washington, 1936

The following are from the UCLA Strokewatch, Summer 2016.

Pac-12 Women's Rowing All-Century Team

ROWERS

Elle Logan - Stanford, 2007-11
Anne Mickelson Cummins - Washington, 1999-2002
Erin Cafaro - California, 2006
Carol Bower - UCLA, 1978-79
Megan Kalmoe - Washington, 2004-06
Kristi Norelius - Washington, 1981-82
Grace Luczak - Stanford, 2009-11
Kara Kohler - California, 2010-14
Laurel Korholz - California, 1992-93
Susan Broome - Washington, 1980-82
Shyril O'Steen - Washington, 1980-81
Jan Palchikoff - UCLA, 1974-75
Sabina Telenska - Washington, 1997-2000
Samantha Magee - Stanford, 2003-06
Rika Geyser - Washington, 1998-2001
Iva Obradovic - California 2009-10
Amy Martin - Oregon State, 1994-96
Megan Dirkmaat - California, 1999-2000
Katie Maloney - Washington, 2000-02
Sabrina Kolker - Stanford, 1999-2002
Connie Carpenter Phinney - California, 1979-80
Lisa Roman - Washington State, 2010-12

COXSWAINS
Mary Whipple - Washington, 1999-2002
Betsy Beard - Washington, 1980-83
Jill Costello - California, 2007-10

WOMEN'S COACH OF THE CENTURY:

Jan Harville - Washington, 1988-2003

WOMEN'S ROWER OF THE CENTURY:

Elle Logan - Stanford, 2008-11

WOMEN'S VARSITY EIGHT OF THE CENTURY:

Washington, 1997

Carol Bower

Carol Bower, UCLA 1978-79
World Championships
Bronze medal 1979 Bled, Slovenia - Women’s 8
Silver medal 1981 Munich, Germany - Women’s 8
Silver medal 1982 Lucerne, Switzerland - Women’s 4+
Silver medal 1983 Duisburg, Germany - Women’s 8
Olympics
Gold medal 1984 Los Angeles - Women’s 8

Carol Bower was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006 and is a two-time U.S. National Rowing Hall of Fame inductee.

Bower has been called the greatest all-around women's crew athlete in UCLA history (1978-79). A bronze medalist in the 1979 World Championships, Bower joined the U.S. National Women's Rowing team in 1980. She was a three-time World Champion Silver Medalist (1981–83) and took home the gold medal in the eights during the 1984 Summer Olympics. Carol was selected Oarswoman of the Year in 1982 by the United States Olympic Committee and was inducted in the Rowing Hall of Fame in 1984. Bower graduated from UCLA in 1979 and served as the head coach of the University of Pennsylvania's Women's Rowing program from 1987- 1996. She then served as the head crew coach at Bryn Mawr College. “Carol Bower”, UCLA Hall of Fame web, https://uclabruins.com/honors/hall-of-fame/carol-bower/125

 Carol became a coach at Bryn Mawr in 1996 and she became the first full-time rowing coach at Bryn Mawr in 2002 and led the program until 2022

 Carol Bower changed the face of Bryn Mawr College rowing when she became the full-time head coach in 2002. With her arrival as a full-time coach, Bower established a varsity rowing program that, in the past five years, has become a competitive force in Division III crew. In addition to her coaching duties, Carol also serves as the Senior Women's Administrator and Senior lecturer for the Department of Athletics and Physical Education.

 Bower's successes are not limited to her time at Bryn Mawr. An accomplished athlete, she graduated from the University of California , Los Angeles in 1979, and in the same year, received a bronze medal in the World Championships. The following year, she was a member the United States Olympic Team, but was unable to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow due to the national boycott. Such an obstacle did not stop Bower. For the next three years, she was a silver medalist in the World Championships. In 1982, Carol was given the honor of "Female Athlete of the Year" by the US Olympic Rowing committee. Bower capped her successful international rowing career at the 1984 Summer Olympics, where she won the gold medal in the Women's Eight. In the 1988 Summer Olympics, she coached the Women's Four. Bower was named to the Rowing Hall of Fame in 1984 and again in 1991.

 Bower started her collegiate coaching career in 1980 at Yale University as the Women's Novice Coach. She then went on to become the Head Coach of the University of Pennsylvania's Women's Rowing program in 1987. In addition to her collegiate coaching experience, she worked with a group of fellow Olympians in a team-building and leadership-training company Team Concepts, Inc.,. Bower has been able to apply those concepts to her work at Bryn Mawr. As the rowing coach, she is in charge of scholar-athlete development, recruitment, and the general management and promotion of the rowing program. As Senior Lecture, Bower designs and teaches the leadership course curriculum as well as sets up programs for team building and leadership development for the college community. “Carol Bower” Rowing Coach Bio Bryn Mawr web, https://gobrynmawr.com/sports/womens-rowing/roster/coaches/carol-bower/57

 Bower is currently Associate Director of Craftsbury Outdoor Center:

Carol Bower: Carol learned to row during her junior year at UCLA in 1978. She raced for the United States from 1979 to 1984, and won many medals, including Gold in the 1984 Olympics in the Women’s 8+.  Carol was named Female Athlete of the Year in 1982 by the US Olympic Rowing Committee. In 1980, Carol began coaching with a position at Yale University, coaching the Novice Women. Since then, she has been a head coach of University of Pennsylvania from 1987 - 1996, and Bryn Mawr from 1996 until 2022. Carol coached the US Women's Olympic 4+ in 1988, and has twice been honored as a Hall of Fame athlete, both in 1984 and in 1991. She retired from Bryn Mawr in 2022 and now lives in Portland, Maine, enjoying surfing and hiking in the summers and cross-country skiing in the winters. Carol has coached at Craftsbury since 2005.   “Carol Bower” Craftsbury Sculling Camp, Our Coaches web, https://www.craftsbury.com/sculling/camps/our-coaches/#carol-bower

Jan Palchikoff

Jan Palchikoff, UCLA 1973-75
World Championships
5th 1975 Nottingham, Great Britain - Women’s 4x+
Silver medal 1977 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Women’s 4x+
5th 1979 Bled, Slovenia - Women’s 2x
Olympics
5th 1984 Montreal, Canada - Women’s 2x

Jan Palchikoff was a 1976 Olympian, the first year women’s rowing was offered.  She and her partner finished fifth in double sculls. She qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but was unable to compete due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott. Palchikoff served as head coach of Syracuse University Women's Crew from 1980 to 1982. Palchikoff was named to the Pac-12 Conference's All-Century team in Women's Rowing. She was elected into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015.

One of the true pioneers for women's athletics, Jan Palchikoff was a member of UCLA's rowing program as a club sport in 1973 and as a varsity sport in 1974 and 1975. She also competed on the UCLA swimming team from 1971-74 and competed in the AIAW Swim Nationals in 1971, 1972 and 1974. Palchikoff helped UCLA reach the U.S. Women's Rowing Association National Championships for the first time in 1974. She was a five-time member of the U.S. National Rowing Team, a national champion in double sculls in 1979 and a member of the U.S. Olympic teams in 1976 and 1980, finishing fifth at the Olympics in the double sculls in 1976. In 2014, she established a masters' hour world record for her age group in track cycling. While she had great success as a competitor, perhaps her greatest contributions came off the playing surface. One of the founding members of the Union of Women Athletes, she was a strong advocate for Title IX and served as a student representative on the Chancellor's Advisory Council on the Status of Women and on the UC Athletic Advisory Board. Since 2004, she has served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Program Officer for Special Olympics Southern California. “Jan Palchikoff”, UCLA Hall of Fame web,  https://uclabruins.com/honors/hall-of-fame/jan-palchikoff/56