Greatest Races: Week 28

In 2005 a Cal Berkeley and St. Joes graduate sat together in Gifu, Japan as the U.S. Representative for the Light Weight Women's 2x. No U.S. woman had medaled in that event in over 5 years since Sarah Garner and Christine Collins won bronze at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Trained in Philly under the tutelage of Ted Nash, from stroke number one, Rynee Hykel and Julie Nichols threw themselves into the task of attacking the field with a solitary goal. These two trail blazers forged the path for lightweight women at Penn AC and would not be denied a medaled.