“Come join the crew team.”
If Melissa Chun hadn’t seen a flyer recruiting for the rowing team all those years ago, perhaps none of this would have happened.
2006 NCAA national champion. 2016 USRowing national accolades. Referee for the past six NCAA Rowing Championships. Youth coach in the Bay Area. The list of honors and achievements goes on, with more undoubtedly on the way.
“I initially joined just to make friends,” Chun says of her introduction to the sport. “Most schools don’t have rowing, at least back then when I first started, so it was kind of a unique opportunity. I got a flyer that said ‘come join the crew team’, and I decided to do it on a whim.”