The Washington athletic director showed guts in firing basketball coach Lorenzo Romar and orchestrated a quick turnabout in her department’s finances. With this new apparel deal, the Huskies could be on firm ground for the next decade.
She arrived in the job with an impeccable reputation but the inevitable question: How would an 18-year underling handle the responsibilities, pressure and complexity of being Top Dawg in Washington’s athletic department?
Well, just shy of two years into her ascension to the athletic director’s position at UW, Jennifer Cohen has provided an emphatic answer. Brilliantly.
The Huskies program right now isn’t just humming, it has been Pavarotti singing arias.