25 Facts About Yasmin Farooq

Yasmin Farooq graduated from Waupun High School in 1984 at Waupun, Wisconsin.

Yasmin Farooq attended the University of Wisconsin where she joined the rowing team in 1984 as a coxswain.

Yasmin Farooq was a member of the 1986 national champion JV eight and served as captain and MVP of the team her senior year.

Yasmin Farooq has been named Pac-12 coach of the year six times and national coach of the year three times.

Yasmin Farooq was inducted into the USRowing Hall of Fame in 2014 and awarded the Ernestine Bayer Woman of the Year award by USRowing in 2017.

In 2021, Yasmin Farooq was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame.

Yasmin Farooq was the coxswain for the first US women's eight to win the World Rowing Championships in 1995 and won silver medals in that event in 1990,1993 and 1994.

Yasmin Farooq finished 6th in the women's eight at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 4th in the women's eight at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

In 2012, Yasmin Farooq served as coach of the United States Under-23 women's eight which won a gold medal at the Under-23 World Rowing Championships in Trakai, Lithuania.

In 2014, Yasmin Farooq was inducted in the National Rowing Hall of Fame for her contributions to the US National Rowing Team as a coxswain.

In 2019, Yasmin Farooq coached the US women's pair of Megan Kalmoe and Tracy Eisser at the World Rowing Championships where the crew finished fourth and qualified for the Olympic Games.

In 2021, Yasmin Farooq joined the US rowing coaching staff as a support coach at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

In 2006, Yasmin Farooq became the head coach of Stanford University's women's rowing team.

Also in 2009, Yasmin Farooq was named 2009 Coach of the Year by the Rowing News, and earned "Joy of Sculling Coaches Conference Award for University Women's Coach of the Year" at the 17th Annual Joy of Sculling Conference.

In 2014, Yasmin Farooq led the Cardinal women to their first Pac-12 Conference Title.

In 2016, after leading the Cardinal to a 4th-place finish at the NCAA's, Yasmin Farooq resigned to become head coach at the University of Washington.

Stanford Olympians coached by Yasmin Farooq include Elle Logan, an NCAA champion, three-time world champion, three-time Olympic gold medalist.

In winning the title, Yasmin Farooq became both the first coach to win an NCAA rowing championship in her first season with the winning program and the first to win it as head coach of two different schools.

At season's end, Yasmin Farooq was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year and the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association national coach of the year.

In 2019, Washington made history again when Yasmin Farooq's team swept the NCAA Championships setting NCAA records in all three events.

Yasmin Farooq earned coach of the year honors again in the Pac-12 and nationally.

Yasmin Farooq was named CRCA Region 5 Coach of the Year and Pac-12 Co-Coach of the Year with her long-time friend, UCLA head coach Amy Fuller.

Yasmin Farooq has worked as rowing commentator for NBC's Olympic broadcasts in Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, and London 2012.

Yasmin Farooq was the rowing analyst for NBC's Universal Sports, covering World Cup regattas and the World Championships.

Yasmin Farooq is married to Roger Waterman, a television cameraman and producer.