Brooke Mooney

Brooke set the women's world record for 2,000 meters on the ergometer in March, 2021. In 2018, she was named PAC-12 Athlete of the Year, was a Pocock CRCA First-Team All-America first team, and was Academic All-PAC-12 honorable mention. Brooke's favorite hobbies include baking (it's a great hobby when you have a team full of taste testers), tennis, sailing, swimming, walking/hiking and traveling. She is a baker with multiple 5-star yelp reviews. No place is too far too walk: this became her motto when recovering from brain surgery in 2017. She found the sport of rowing through cross-country skiing. She grew up in Vermont as a competitive cross-country skier with multiple junior national championship podiums but didn't love it enough to do it in college, so she transitioned to rowing for her senior year of high school. Brooke has had many coaches over the years that have had an enormous impact on her as an athlete and a human, starting with her high school ski coach, Sverre Caldwell, and most recently (before joining the national team) Yaz Farooq, the UW head coach her junior and senior year.