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         <title>The Anchorage Daily News: WWU's Coon shines at nationals in N.J.</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Audrey Coon of Kenai, Alaska, captured three medals this past weekend at the US Rowing Club National Championships, a five-day regatta on the Cooper River in Pennsauken, N.J. The Western Washington University rower won gold in the women's open lightweight eight and intermediate lightweight four, and also silvered in the intermediate pair.]]></description>
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         <title>The Philadelphia Inquirer: Adapting well to rowing</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:29:43 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Tracy Lee Tackett, the left side of her body weakened by cerebral palsy, jokes that at 38, she's the old one in her crew. Like Brown and Schwanger, Tackett is a member of the Philadelphia Rowing Program for the Disabled, something, she said, that has profoundly impacted all their lives ...Tackett rowed at Western Washington University, where she said her disability went unnoticed]]></description>
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         <title>The NCAA News: NCAA Championships Year In Review 2007-08</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The 2007-08 championship year saw a lot of familiar faces at the top of the podium - Kenyon dominated Division III swimming and diving again, Drury's men's swimming and diving team and Western Washington's rowing team won their fourth consecutive national titles. Appalachian State's football team was back in the winner's circle for the third straight time. And Northwestern's women's lacrosse team - not even a decade old - won its fourth consecutive national title.]]></description>
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         <title>Helena Independent Record: Gilbert helps lead WWU to 4th rowing title</title>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:54:22 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[The warm-up jogs, practice runs and other preparations are all over. All that's left is trust. Trust that the eight other women in the boat are focused on the same goal. That the teammates dip their oars in the water, pull with all their might and push through the unbearable pain that accompanies the sport of rowing.]]></description>
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         <title>Coon and Auriemma named CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Americans</title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:32:17 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Two members of the national champion Western Washington University women's rowing team, Audrey Coon and Gina Auriemma, have been named College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN The Magazine College Division Women's At-Large Academic All-Americans.]]></description>
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         <title>Sports Illustrated On Campus.com: WWU Rowing compared to Tiger Woods</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:18:46 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[How's this for an analogy: Western Washington is to D-II women's rowing what Tiger Woods is to golf. They're so good, the only way to beat them is to pray for an injury. The Vikings, who were ranked No. 1 all season long, receiving every first place vote out there, won their fourth straight national title this weekend. To put that in perspective, no rowing team in any division has won three straight championships, never mind four. Led by four seniors Metta Gilbert, Samantha Marikis, Staci Reynolds and Amelia Whitcomb -- all of who are undefeated in their college careers -- Western fin]]></description>
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         <title>The Western Front: Staci Reynolds named female athlete of the quarter</title>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:23:55 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[To Western Washington University senior Staci Reynolds, crew is not just a sport -- it's a passion and has been a way of life for the past seven years.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Western Washington University's John Fuchs has been named the 2008 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year. It is the second straight year that Fuchs has earned the distinction and third time overall. He also received the honor in 2005 and 2007.]]></description>
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         <title>WWU Women's Rowing Celebration set for Friday, June 13</title>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:58:20 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[A celebration of Western Washington University's success in women's rowing will be held on Friday, June 13, from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Viking Union Room 565 on the WWU campus.]]></description>
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         <title>Seattle Times Editorial: Crews pull together</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Proud, regional sports fans almost need a spreadsheet to follow the achievements of outstanding women crews at the NCAA rowing championships. They triumphed at all levels of competition, in one of the most demanding sports in collegiate athletics. Where to start? With a dynasty; no other word applies. Western Washington took the team title in the Division II competition for the fourth consecutive year. The rowers from Bellingham won the eights grand final and the fours grand final. Seniors Metta Gilbert, Samantha Marikis, Staci Reynolds and Amelia Whitcomb rowed in the national regatta for each of the Vikings' championships. Coach John Fuchs introduced many of the rowers to the sport in college.]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[Western Washington University won its fourth straight national team title at the seventh annual NCAA Division II National Women's Rowing Championships on Sunday. It may say Washington on the team's uniforms but it was four Alaskans who helped the Vikings pull away from the competition at the Sacramento Aquatic Center on Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif. The Alaska crew helped Western lead from start to finish in winning both the four-oared and eight-oared grand finals, each for the fourth straight year, to claim the national crown.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:08:17 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[Western Washington University made it four-for-four at the seventh annual NCAA Division II National Women's Rowing Championships on Sunday morning, winning an unprecedented fourth straight national title at the Sacramento Aquatic Center on Lake Natoma. The Vikings were led by a core group of four seniors - Metta Gilbert, Samantha Marikis, Staci Reynolds and Amelia Whitcomb - who rowed in the national regatta for each of the championships. Western led from start to finish in winning both the four and eight grand finals, each for the fourth straight year, to claim the national title.]]></description>
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         <title>Vikings advance to Sunday grand finals at NCAA II National Championships</title>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 11:40:12 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[With mind-numbing precision, Western Washington University's varsity eight and varsity four shells cruised to impressive victories in their qualifying heats Friday at the seventh annual NCAA Division II Women's Rowing National Championships being held on Lake Natoma. The triumphs advance the nationally No.1-ranked and three-time defending national champion Vikings to Sunday's grand finals with the four competing at 9:15 a.m. and the eight at 9:45 a.m.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:00:17 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[A school-record three members of Western Washington University's No.1-ranked varsity eight have been named to the 2008 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association/NCAA Division II Pocock Women's Rowing All-America team announced today.Recognized for the second straight year was stroke Staci Reynolds, while No.7 seat Metta Gilbert and No.4 seat Samantha Marikis were selected for the first time.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 15:47:27 PST</pubDate>
         <description><![CDATA[The roots of success for the four senior members on the Western Washington University women's rowing team began even before they arrived. In fact, in the Vikings' last race prior to them enrolling. On May 30-June 1 at the 2008 NCAA National Championships, they will chase an unprecedented fourth straight Division II title.]]></description>
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