Annual Athlete Awards

Each season the team honors those who have demonstrated the character and spirit that reflect the values of the team. Those lucky enough to be engraved on these trophies become a lasting reminder and inspiration to the athletes of the future.

 
 

UCLA Men’s Rowing Annual Awards

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"Scholarship" Team Highest GPA

Highest Cumulative GPA at the end of the season.

Varsity:

  • 2017: Madelyn Avjean

  • 2018: Matt Horner

  • 2019: Matt Horner

novice:

  • 2017: Chase Bakkeby

  • 2018: Nathan Cheung

  • 2019: Margaret Akey

Freshman Effort Award

Awarded to the Freshman whose progress as an athlete and a rower has been anchored by good attendance, attitude, effort and application of hard work. Dedicated to the effort and determination of the classes of 1979 and 1980

  • 1987 - Matt Settles, Scott Noel

  • 1988 - Dean Pandori

  • 1989 - Tim Evans, Bret Whitworth

  • 1990 - Steve Herold

  • 1991 - Todd Dwelle

  • 2017 - Emil Persson

  • 2018 - Erik Hsu-Storaker

  • 2019 - Quin Parker

  • 1976 - Tom Fitzmorris, Chuck Rink, Alan Miller

  • 1977 - Ben Oberlin, Bob Baldwin, Paulo Kuendig

  • 1978 - Mark Barbolak

  • 1979 - Bill Hilderth

  • 1980 - Craig Tilson

  • 1985 - Frank Buckley

  • 1986 - Larry Clerico, Peter Atenburger

 

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Freshman Captain of the Year Award

Awarded to any Freshman (official Captain or not) whose behaviors and style of leadership has motivated and helped lead the new members of the UCLA crew program. Established in honor of Coach James C. Sims, 1970

  • 1984 - Mark Klein

  • 1985 - Robert Bermco

  • 1986 - Jeff Kaltreider

  • 1988 - Mike Condrin

  • 1990 - Steve Herold

  • 1991 - Bill Carey

  • 1992 - Jason Ballas

  • 2017 - Matthew King

  • 2018 - Alan McIvor

  • 2019 - Kegan Smith

E-Award, lightweight crew

Awarded to the most valuable lightweight rower. Must have raced as a lightweight for UCLA over the season.

  • 1972 - Rod Johnson

  • 1973 - Ted Maynord

  • 1974 - Kurt Boyd

  • 1975 - Chuck Rinck

  • 1976 - Bryn Davis

  • 1977 - Bryn Davis

  • 2017 - Andrew Nakamura

  • 2018 - Shaye Busse

  • 2019 - Nathan Cheung

 

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Rigger Brown Inspirational trophy

Awarded to the member of the program whose hard work and perseverance has been an inspiration to the team.

  • 1986 - Frank Buckley

  • 1987 - Ritchie Sax

  • 1988 - Jay Tint

  • 1989 - Teo Bielafeld

  • 1990 - Tim Evans

  • 1991 - Tim Evans

  • 1992 - Steve Herold

  • 2000 - Arthur Lee

  • 2017 - Austin Huckaby

  • 2018 - Zack Kline

  • 2019 - Erik Hsu-Storaker

  • 1971 - Lyle Randles

  • 1972 - Rick Galliand

  • 1973 - Tom Meyer

  • 1974 - Alex Frasco, Mitch Henderson

  • 1975 - Bruce Kroyer, Norm Witt

  • 1976 - Larry Offner

  • 1977 - Glenn Wetzel

  • 1978 - Bill Lachmar

UCLA Most Outstanding Oarsman

Awarded to the individual who has the consistently shown the highest levels of skill and technique in a boat.

  • 2002 - Justin Owens

  • 2003 - Bryan Kitch

  • 2004 - David Hampton

  • 2005 - Bryan Kitch, Kate Mead

  • 2006 - David Hampton

  • 2007 - Martin Reschke

  • 2008 - Sarah Koff

  • 2009 - Martin Reschke

  • 2010 - Sean Cully

  • 2016 - Lucas Budgett

  • 2017 - Mark Replogle

  • 2018 - Dominic Pardini

  • 2019 - Trevor Phillips

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Most Improved Oarsman

Awarded to the individual who has made the most progress over the season. Trophy donated by Mr and Mrs James W Fahrner in 1981.

  • 1986 - David Stubbs

  • 1987 - Mike Farrell

  • 1989 - Ace Thayer

  • 1990 - Joshua Copeland

  • 1991 - Jeff Tuttle

  • 1992 - Bent Houston

  • 2000 - Zach Moura, Edgar Mendieta

  • 2001 - Mike Doring

  • 2003 - John Durso

  • 2017 - Giselle Sadler

  • 2018 - Ben Koch

  • 2019 - Zach Ferrin

Novice Rower of the Year

Awarded to the Novice rower who is progressing at the steadiest rate towards the highest level of performance. Ideally our next Walk On Olympian.

  • 2007 - Andrew Axley

  • 2008 - Lila Miller

  • 2009 - Scott Goddard

  • 2010 - Jeff Latham

  • 2017: Chase Bakkeby

  • 2018: Dash Wada

  • 2019: Seamus Finnegan

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Doug Baker Coaches Mug

For helping to make memories…maybe the wrong kind! The coach version.

  • 2017: Gary Bell

  • 2018: Simon Hoadley

  • 2019: Paul Wilkins

The Albatross Award

Named for the Coleridge poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". For helping to make memories…maybe the wrong kind! The athlete version.

  • 2017: Madelyn Avjean

  • 2018: Pippa Spindel

  • 2019: Dash Wada

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Paul Steinke Coaches Award

Teamwork, attitude, work ethic, improvement. The athlete or crew that coaches love to have on the team and are an example to others. Possibly awarded to a single worthy act of inspiration. Paul Steinke was a rower and coach for the UCLA team who was very influential in building the team.

  • 2003 - David Doerr, David Hampton

  • 2004 - Neil Doshi

  • 2005 - Patrick Joseph,

  • 2006 - Eric Landoll, Chris Moritz

  • 2007 - Robert Grosfield

  • 2008 - 2nd Varsity Eight

  • 2009 - Nicole Magdaleno

  • 2017 - Adela Armstrong-Spielberg

  • 2018 - Varsity Pair (Sean Pierce, Matt King)

  • 2019 - Matt King

Outstanding Senior

Awarded to a Senior who has had an outstanding career, and has committed to the vision of the team while representing their crew, their squad and the UCLA's colors and traditions with pride.

  • 1968 - Carl Marcellas, Craig Blecker, Erik Johnson

  • 1969 - Guy Lockhead, Rick Love

  • 1970 - Terry Oftedal, Dean Hanson

  • 1971 - Bob Baldwin, Sandy Bettleman

  • 1972 - Rick Galliand, Jack Salyer

  • 1973 - Rod Johnson

  • 1974 - Alex Frasco, Tom Meyer, Steve Hokoda

  • 1975 - Bruce Kroyer, Norm Witt

  • 1976 - Mitch Henderson

  • 1977 - Mark Dolan, Kerry Turner

  • 1978 - Ron Lovely

  • 1980 - Frank Kovac

  • 2017 - Nick Dietrich & Kristian Svinterud

  • 2018 - Mark Replogle

  • 2019 - Zach Alter

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Most Valuable Freshman

Awarded as the top Freshman honor of the program. The Freshman athlete (coxswain or rower) who has successfully started on a four year career to wear the UCLA colours with the highest levels of effort, skill, ability, sportsmanship, pride and distinction. An athlete that we are lucky to have in our crew, and who is respected by both crew and coaches.

  • 1975 - Mark Dolan

  • 1976 - Ron Lovely

  • 1977 - Frank Kovac

  • 1978 - Ken O'Rourke

  • 1979 - Harry Daglas

  • 1980 - Kevin Jones

  • 1981 - Kevin Still

  • 1987 - Rich Long

  • 1988 - Brad Marquardt

  • 1989 - John Matheson

  • 1990 - Jeff Slye

  • 2003 - Matthew Brown

  • 2006 - Martin Reschke

  • 2017 - William Zhu

  • 2018 - Trevor Phillips

  • 2019 - Jules Ouwerkerk

  • 1958 - John Epstein

  • 1959 - Gary Wadsworth

  • 1960 - Delbert Parker

  • 1961 - Stephen Makin

  • 1962 - Lyle Mason

  • 1963 - Warwick Ford

  • 1964 - Ron Buffum

  • 1965 - Jeff Carlson

  • 1966 - Wayne Vincent

  • 1967 - James Day

  • 1968 - Jim Lucas

  • 1969 - Ron Silberman

  • 1970 - Dave Albo

  • 1971 - Alex Frasco

  • 1972 - Steve Bohlmann

  • 1973 - Mitch Henderson

  • 1974 - plaque missing

Steve Hokoda Cox'n Seat for Most Valuable Coxswain

Awarded to the most valuable coxswain. Not necessarily the Varsity Eight or Freshman Eight coxswain, but certainly someone who has always strived successfully to make UCLA crews faster through effort, ability and spirit. First awarded in 2017.

  • 2017: Madelyn Avjean

  • 2018: Adela Armstrong-Spielberg

  • 2019: Laura Hartley

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Class of '57 Award, Most Valuable Varsity Oarsman

Awarded as the top honor of the program. The athlete (coxswain or rower) should have worn the UCLA colors with the highest levels of spirit, ability, service, effort, sportsmanship, pride and distinction. An athlete that we are lucky to have in our crew, and who is respected by both crew and coaches.

  • 1958 - Jeffery Baus

  • 1959 - Jon Epstein

  • 1960 - Edward Jubert

  • 1961 - Patrick Barnes

  • 1962 - Guy Lundberg

  • 1963 - Don Miller

  • 1964 - Eric Grosch

  • 1965 - Jeff Brennan

  • 1966 - Warren Ford

  • 1967 - Jim Sims

  • 1968 - Bob Newman

  • 1969 - Terry Oftedal

  • 1970 - Geof Strand

  • 1971 - Duncan Henderson

  • 1972 - Jack Salyer, Warren Dipstra

  • 1973 - Alex Frasco

  • 1974 - Scott Salyer

  • 1975 - Mitch Henderson

  • 1976 - Tim Powers

  • 1977 - Jim Pentlarge

  • 1978 - Bob Frasetto

  • 1979 - Jerry Fitzmorris

  • 1980 - Joe Carlson

  • 1986 - Mike Still

  • 1987 - Mike Still

  • 1988 - Bruce Appleyard

  • 1989 - Mike Stralka

  • 1990 - Brad Marquardt

  • 1991 - Brad Marquardt

  • 1992 - Leif Pettersson

  • 2017 - David Kerns

  • 2018 - Dominic Pardini

  • 2019 - Peter Frederick

Four Year Seniors

Any Seniors who were a member of the UCLA Rowing team for four years.

  • 2017: Nick Dietrich, David Kerns, Madelyn Avjean

  • 2018: Austin Huckaby, Adela Armstrong-Spielberg, Sean Pierce, Dominic Pardini.

  • 2019: Shaye Busse, Matt Horner, Zach Alter, Peter Frederick

 

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Mid-Season Awards

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Door Knob Cup

Winner of UCLA Intra-squad pairs regatta.

  • 1990 - Eric Dahlstrom, Chris Lee

  • 1991 - Bill Carey, Todd Dwelle

  • 2017 - Dominic Pardini, David Kerns

  • 2018 - Dominic Pardini, Trevor Phillips

  • 2019 - Trevor Phillips, Peter Frederick

Novice Crew Captains

  • 2017: Jeremy Onofrei, Chase Bakkeby

  • 2018: Brandon Bettinger, Antonio Raphael

  • 2019: Seamus Finnegan, Kegan Smith

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varsity Crew Captains

  • 1958: Larry Benningson

  • 1959: Larry Benningson

  • 1960: Edward Jubert

  • 1961: Jon Epstein

  • 1962: Delbert Parker, Bart Morrison

  • 1963: Delbert Parker

  • 1964: John Ballinger

  • 1965: Ross Paver

  • 1966: Jeff Brennan

  • 1967: Mike Harris, Pat Moran

  • 1968: Pat Moran

  • 1969: Ron Stephens

  • 1970: Jim Jorgensen

  • 1971: Duncan Henderson

  • 1972: Jack Salyer

  • 1973: Alex Frasco

  • 1974: Joel Coster

  • 1975: Bruce Kroyer

  • 2017: Dominic Pardini, David Kerns

  • 2018: Mark Replogle, Peter Frederick

  • 2019: Julio Alvarado, Matt King, Peter Frederick

Allen D Bailey Scholar Athlete Award

Highest GPA at the time of the Alumni dinner (Not for Freshman).

  • 2017: Maddie Avjean

  • 2018: Matt Horner

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Triathlon Turkey Trot Trophy

First place in the Thanksgiving Triathlon. Current Men's course is 9km erg, 4 mile UCLA campus Perimeter run and single Drake Stadium snake. Current women's course is 7.5km erg, 3mile Campus Run and a double Drake Stadium.

  • 1989 - Steve Herold (32:18)

  • 1990 - Greg French (36:05)

  • 1999 - Rayleen Hsu

  • 2000 - John Tapia-Grassi (1:19.06), Nell Shuttleworth (1:29.31)

  • 2001 - Kathy Kennedy

  • 2002 - Elizabeth Felter

  • 2005 - Erin Haggerty

  • 2006 - Erin Haggerty

  • 2007 - Erin Haggerty

  • 2008 - Vanessa Teff

  • 2017 - Marie Jacquet (1:02:37), Ben Koch (1:09:30)

  • 2018 - Ben Koch (1:05:22)

  • 2019 - John Kinnear (1:05:49)

Winter Training Champion

Most volume over winter break

  • 2017: Peter Frederick

  • 2018: Peter Frederick

  • 2019: Jules Ouwerkerk


Awards and Prizes from Other Institutions

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ACRA All American Team

1st Team

  • 2008: Martin Reschke

  • 2009 : Martin Reschke

  • 2012: Jeff Latham

  • 2013: Jeff Latham

  • 2014: Tim Maytom

  • 2015: Tim Maytom

2nd Team

  • 2008: Sarah Koff, Brad Stapleton

3rd Team

  • 2019: Peter Frederick

All Freshman

  • 2015: Dominic Pardini

  • 2018: Trevor Phillips

  • 2019: Jules Ouwerkerk

 

West Coast All-Regional

  • 2009: Darius Faizi, Martin Reschke, Andrew Venardi

  • 2011: Nick Smith

  • 2012: Jeff Latham

  • 2013: Jeff Latham

  • 2015: Tim Maytom

  • 2017: Dominic Pardini

  • 2019: Peter Frederick

ACRA All academic Team

1st Team (>3.85 GPA)

  • 2014: Nicholas Stich

  • 2015 Madelyn Avjean

  • 2017: Emil Persson, Maddie Avjean

  • 2019: Matt Horner

 

2nd Team (>3.50 GPA)

  • 2009: Marshall Knight, Nicole Magdelano, Lila Miller, Martin Reschke

  • 2012: Zev Finnlay, Raffi Tchekmedyian

  • 2013: Zev Finnlay, Ryan Kachold, Andrew Want

  • 2014: Manraj Dhesi, Grant Higerg, Kyle Knoll

  • 2015: Andrew Metz, Brandon Pang, Kyle Knoll, Youseff Aref

  • 2017: Sean Pierce, Dominic Pardini, Adela Armstrong-Spielberg, David Kerns, Samuel Elias

  • 2018: Matt Horner, Pippa Spindel, Sean Pierce, Adela Armstrong-Spielberg, Juan-Pablo Almanza-Soto, Dominic Pardini, Katherine Hirth, Chase Bakkeby, Jeremy Onofrei, Shaye Busse, Zachary Kline

  • 2019: Bjarke Nielsen, Chase Bakkeby, Laura Hartley, Nathan Cheung.

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Pac12 All Conference Team

  • Ron Lovely, 1979

  • Matt Smith, 1981

  • Joe Carlson, 1981

  • Scott Case, 1981

  • Charlie Hughes, 1983

  • Kevin Still, 1983

  • Guy Speers, 1984

  • Andy Murphy, 1984

  • Robert Salonites, 1985

  • Mike Still, 1986, 1987

  • Bruce Appleyard, 1987

  • Chris Hirth, 1987

  • Ritchie Sax, 1987

  • Jay Tint, 1988

  • Dave Webb, 1988

  • Mike Stralka, 1988, 1989

  • Stefanos Volianitis, 1988, 1990

  • Marc Batchelder, 1989

  • Mike Farrell, 1989

  • Eric Kowal, 1989

  • Greg LeSage, 1990

  • Brad Marquardt, 1990, 1991

  • Tim Evans, 1991

  • Leif Pettersson, 1991, 1992

  • Jeffrey Tuddle(Tuttle?), 1992, 1993

  • Steve Herold, 1992

  • Patrick Tielnan, 1995

  • Jon Goss, 1999

  • Paul Steinke, 2001

  • John Tapia-Grassi, 2002

  • Brian Kitch, 2003

  • David Hampton, 2004

  • Chris Dekker, 2005

  • Martin Reschke, 2007, 2008, 2009

  • Brian Belleville, 2010, 2011

  • Raffi Tchekmedyian 2012

  • David Kerns, 2017

  • Dominic Pardini, 2018

  • Peter Frederick, 2019

pac12 all academic team

(First Team unless stated)

  • Todd MacAteer, 1992

  • Jorn-Inge Thorndsen, 1993

  • Joe Talfur, 1994

  • Michael Hendricks, 1999

  • Arthur Lee, 2000, 2001, 2002

  • Edgar Mendieta, 2000

  • Toby Lees, 2001

  • Marc Mintsioulis, 2001, 2002

  • Justin Owens, 2001, 2002

  • Kelly Dolan, 2002

  • Andrew McDonnell, 2002

  • Phillip Ruprecht, 2002

  • Michael Aspinwall, 2003, 2004

  • Adam Dreifuerst, 2003

  • Brian Kitch, 2003, 2004, 2005

  • Oren Mayer, 2003

  • Ariel Gordon, 2004

  • David Hampton, 2004, 2005, 2006

  • Rod Mortazavi, 2004, 2005

  • Daniel Biocini, 2005

  • Brian Farkas, 2005

  • Ryan Frontiera, 2005

  • Patrick Joseph, 2005, 2006

  • Arthur Lechtholz-Zey, 2005

  • Alex Papanicolaou, 2005

  • Justin Price, 2005, 2006

  • Neil Doshi, 2005(2nd Team)

  • Chloe Constant, 2006

  • Alex Blaseio, 2007, 2008

  • Kristian Kanya, 2007, 2008

  • Martin Reschke, 2007, 2008, 2009

  • Greg Gausewitz, 2008

  • Marshall Knight, 2008, 2009

  • Lila Miller, 2008, 2009, 2010

  • Sarah Koff, 2008(2nd Team)

  • Nicole Magdaleno, 2009

  • Ken Fukuda, 2009(2nd Team)

  • Jake Kaye, 2009(2nd Team)

  • Jackson Marsteller, 2009(2nd Team), 2010(2nd Team)

  • Dan Prasch, 2009(2nd Team)

  • Brian Belleville, 2010

  • Raffi Tchekmedyian, 2010(2nd Team)

  • Madelyn Avjean, 2017

  • Samuel Elias, 2017

  • David Kerns, 2017

  • Sean Pierce, 2017, 2018

  • Adela Armstrong-Spielberg, 2017, 2018

  • Matthew Horner, 2017, 2018

  • Dominic Pardini, 2017, 2018(Honorable Mention)

  • Ulysis Baal, 2017(2nd Team)

  • Paul Heer, 2017(2nd Team)

  • Shaye Busse, 2017(2nd Team), 2018(2nd Team)

  • Zachary Alter, 2017(2nd Team), 2018(Honorable Mention)

  • Giselle Sadler, 2017(Honorable Mention)

  • Mark Replogle, 2017(Honorable Mention), 2018(Honorable Mention)

  • Pippa Spindel, 2018

  • Juan-Pablo Almanza-Soto, 2018

  • Chase Bakkeby, 2018(2nd Team)

  • Kate Hirth, 2018(2nd Team)

  • Jeremy Onofrei, 2018(2nd Team)

  • Zack Kline, 2018(2nd Team)

  • Paul Chung, 2018(Honorable Mention)

  • Ben Koch, 2018(Honorable Mention)

  • Matt Leung, 2018(Honorable Mention)

  • Tyler Miao, 2018(Honorable Mention)

  • Emmanuel Velasquez, 2018(Honorable Mention)

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WIRA All Region Team

  • 2014: Rodd Talebi, Timothy Maytom

  • 2018: Andrew Nakamura

UCLA Recreation Club Sports

Athlete of the Year
2017: David Kerns

Officer of the Year
2017:

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