PORTLAND, Ore. – Catherine Watson has been a part of the University of Portland Rowing Team for five years. It feels like a career that can divided into two separate eras.
"I came into this program when It was five years old," Watson said, but now it feels like even longer. That's because the last two years have been… different, to say the least. A global pandemic shut down the world and robbed rowing of their 2020 spring season, Watson's junior year. A new coach signed o in Gulliver Scott in the fall of 2020, faced with the difficult task of managing a new environment in a COVID-driven world.