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Stephen Hertzfeld
Stephen Hertzfeld

Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Bethesda, Md.
High School:
Chevy Chase
Height / Weight:
5-5 / 130
Position:
Coxswain

High School Sports: Rowing and wrestling
High School Awards: Received the Most Valuable Wrestler award as a sophomore ... coxed prep crew four years, earning a bronze medal at SRA Nationals as a senior ... also participated at Canadian Henley, Club Nationals and the Junior National Team Development Camp ... Raced at the Head of the Charles twice.
Major at Washington: Forestry

Husky Rowing Experience: 2002 (Freshman)--Trained and competed with the Huskies' freshman team. 2003

(Sophomore)--Directed the varsity eight to a win in the dual race with Washington State ... Served as the coxswain for the second varsity four crew that placed third in the Cal dual, second in the Oregon State dual and second at the Windermere Cup.

Personal: Son of Henry Hertzfeld and Nancy Pindus ... mother and father both attended the University of Pennsylvania ... mother is a policy researcher ... father is an econominst ... older sister, Laura (24) is a journalist who attended Barnard College in New York.

The best thing about Seattle is: The Ballard Locks.
My best race was: Senior year high school nationals. All of us had rowed four years together and we won our school's first medal at nationals in our last high school race.
After I graduate, I plan to: See the world.
If I could tell my incoming teammates one thing, it would be: Get ready.

Hertzfeld says: "Washington rowing has it all."

Go Huskies!