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Joel Furtek is in his first year as a boatman with the University of Virginia women's rowing program. His primary responsibilities are organizing, maintaining and transporting all equipment, including boats, oars, electronics, rowing ergometers and coach boats.
The head women's rowing coach at the University of North Carolina for five years, Furtek returned to the Virginia women's rowing program as an assistant coach in the summer of 2002. Furtek was an assistant in the Virginia program for five years (1992-97) before leaving to start the women's rowing program at North Carolina in July of 1997. In his first year as head coach, the Tar Heels finished the season at the NCAA Championships and earned a bronze medal in the varsity four. North Carolina's varsity eight crew regularly appeared in the national top 25 during Furtek's tenure.
He was an assistant varsity coach at Virginia during the 1992-93 season before taking over the novice program in 1993.
A native of Utica, N.Y., Furtek earned his bachelor's degree in history from Yale in 1990. A four-year member of the Yale crew and two-year letterman, he was the coxswain for the Bulldog's lightweight crew that went undefeated on its way to the 1990 national collegiate rowing championship and competed at the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta in England. In his senior year, he was awarded the Henry Babcock Award for outstanding spirit. Furtek also coxed at the Kelly Challenge in Mandelieu, France, and at the United States National Team selection camp in 1993.
After graduating from Yale, he spent two years working for the Central Intelligence Agency before coming to Virginia in 1992.
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