Madison Mailey, DMSB‘18, didn’t try rowing until her junior year of high school. “I was a dancer for 10 years,” she said. “It gave me a pretty good background of working hard.”
What she didn’t know at the time was that not really “fitting in” with the dance world – “I was so tall,” she said – gave her the opportunity to fall in love with rowing, and eventually become an Olympic gold medalist.
Mailey, an All-American rower at Northeastern who graduated in 2018, won an Olympic gold medal while rowing in the women’s eight for Canada on Thursday in Tokyo. In this final installment of her Olympic diary, she explains how it feels to win the biggest race of her...
An All-American rower at Northeastern who graduated in 2018, Madison Mailey will be competing in the women’s eight for Canada at the Olympic Games. In this diary entry from Japan, she looks forward to the realization of her Olympic dream.
Three years after she starred for Northeastern, Mailey will be rowing for Canada at the Olympic Games in Tokyo July 23 to Aug. 8. The COVID-19 pandemic made the pursuit of her dream all the more difficult.
The Huskies goaltender capped a historic season by receiving the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. Frankel, a senior, joins Kendall Coyne-Schofield, the 2016 winner, and Brooke Whitney, who won in 2002, as Northeastern’s recipients of the highest individual award in the...
The groundbreaking media and commerce company dedicated to achieving gender parity in media coverage was announced last week by Alex Morgan, Sue Bird, Simone Manuel, and Chloe Kim.
The final horn meant so much to the No. 1 Huskies. It marked their fourth straight Hockey East women’s championship with their 6-2 victory over Providence College in the title game Saturday at Matthews Arena. And on Sunday, they were awarded the No. 1 seed for the...
Health science student Tess Willinger has been a volunteer coach with the local non-profit youth soccer program, South End Soccer, for two years. She coaches kids ages 6 and 7.
Alina Mueller, who is arguably the NCAA’s best women’s ice hockey player as a junior, is happy to be back on campus after six months at home in Switzerland.
