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Entering her 22nd season with the Brown program, Phoebe Murphy,
wife of Head Coach John Murphy, has helped lead the Bears to
unprecedented success. Under the Murphy's leadership, Brown has
become the winningest program in NCAA Championship history, winning
five rowing championships in the last 10 years. In the 2007 season,
Murphy's novice eights and second varsity eights went undefeated
during the regular season and went on to win the Grand Finals at
the EAWRC Sprints. The second eights placed third at the NCAA
Championships in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and helped Brown claim an
NCAA Championship. In 2004, the second varsity eights and second
novice eights went undefeated winning gold medals at the Eastern
Sprints. The second varsity eights also placed first in the grand
finals at the NCAA Championships. In 1999, Murphy's first novice
crew posted a perfect 10-0 record while the second novice boat
compiled an unblemished record of 8-0. Both the first and second
novice boats captured the EAWRC Championship. It is no surprise
that she was voted the EAWRC novice coach of the year. A
distinguished athlete, Murphy began her career as a single sculler.
She captained the Brown crew in 1980 and stroked the varsity four
which won the National Championship in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Her
other accomplishments include a Junior National Championship at age
16, gold medals in the Lightweight single at the Head of the
Charles in 1979 and 1980, and being a member of the United States
Lightweight National Team which won gold medals at the U.S.
Nationals as well as the Canadian Henley. Phoebe and her husband,
John, the women's varsity coach at Brown, reside in Barrington,
Rhode Island with their three children, Jack, Patrick and Penelope.
