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Western Washington University women's rowing team opened its 2011 season in strong fashion Saturday, winning five of six races at the Cascade Sprints at American Lake in Tacoma.

Whatcom County athletes and teams provided numerous unforgettable images in 2011, but the best might have been saved for last. Anybody lucky enough to make the drive south to Tacoma on Dec. 3 likely will always remember the almost unimaginable series of events that led to the Lynden football…

There are no words, Cloe Hussey says, to describe the energy of the women in her boat as they soar across the water to the finish line of a race.

“We might be a couple feet from the finish line, but none of us stops pulling our hardest,” said the University of Portland student. “Crew…

Oberholzer, a senior coxswain at Western Washington, led the women’s varsity eight to victory over defending NCAA D-II champion Mercyhurst by two boatlengths at Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif.

Western Washington University's Samantha Oberholzer will be in the "Faces in the Crowd" section of the June 20 issue of Sports Illustrated.

Oberholzer was the coxswain in the Vikings' varsity eight shell that won a national title in helping Western capture a seventh…

If not for a random encounter that eventually led Lauren Fleming to the Western Washington University rowing team, she might not be at the university at all.

“I was unhappy at Western during my freshman year and I even thought about transferring,” she wrote in an…

The national champion Western Washington University Women's rowing team will be at Safeco Field on Saturday, June 4, for a special tribute prior to the Seattle Mariners' baseball game with Tampa Bay, including the ceremonial first pitch by team captain Casey Mapes.

Two members of Western Washington University's varsity eight, No. 5 seat Siri Carlson and coxswain Samantha Oberholzer, have been named to the 2011 Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association/NCAA Division II Pocock All-America women's rowing team.

Carlson and Oberholzer have played…