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Katie Sweet enters her third year as an assistant coach with the Stanford Lightweight Crew.
Last season, Sweet helped guide the lightweight eight to the boat's third-straight Pacific Coast Rowing title and a third-place national finish at the IRA National Championships. Two lightweight rowers, sophomores Katherine Heflin and Gretchen Stumhofer, were named CRCA Pocock Lightweight All-Americans.
In 2007-08, Sweet, in her first year with the Cardinal, helped guide the lightweight eight to a third-place national finish at the IRA Regatta as well as repeating as Pacific Coast champions.
Prior to joining the Stanford staff, Sweet coached for Green Lake Junior Crew in Seattle. There, she helped the lightweight women to consecutive national invitations in 2006 and 2007. In 2006, her lightweight women's 8+ won the Northwest Regional Championships.
Sweet brings to Stanford experience as a lightweight rower at both the collegiate and international level. At the University of Wisconsin, she was a four-year letterwinner in rowing and served as captain of the lightweight team in 2005. While at Wisconsin, Sweet twice won a national championship with the lightweight eight boat. As a national team member in 2006, she placed fifth in the lightweight women's quad at the FISA World Championships.
With a bachelor's in kinesiology, Katie plans to earn her clinical doctorate in Physical Therapy.