A two-month investigation by the UW athletic department and a stormy meeting with his women’s team ultimately resulted in last week’s firing of legendary Washington Huskies rowing coach Bob Ernst.
A heated office argument with his standout coxswain the first day of September classes triggered events that resulted in last week’s firing of legendary Washington Huskies rowing coach Bob Ernst.
By the conclusion of the closed-door exchange between Ernst, 69, and rower Marlow Mizer, a junior — which occurred after the coach’s season-opening address to his women’s crew team — she was off the squad. Over the next two months, after an initial complaint by Mizer about Ernst’s coaching style, a University of Washington administrator interviewed about two dozen of the 62 women on the team’s fall roster, plus a handful of recent program graduates.