The No. 2-ranked Washington men’s and women’s rowing teams swept their races Saturday on sunny Montlake Cut at the Husky Open.
The regatta included a new feature: sprint racing. The UW men and women each raced eights in races that started from the finish line and ended at the eastern end of Montlake Cut, a distance of about 600 meters.
The men’s sprint race – featuring the top two UW men’s crews – was won by the “black” boat, which finished about a half-second ahead of the “purple” crew.
The women’s sprint race was won by the Huskies’ varsity eight, which (like all four boats in the race) had just rowed a 2,000-meter race less than an hour before.