Emily Farrar is back for her fourth season of coaching the Nazareth women's rowing team and her second since the team was elevated to varsity status. The Golden Flyers competed at the intercollegiate level for the first time in 2019 with appearances at the Head of the Genesee Regatta and the Schuylkill Regatta. They were training to compete again in the spring, but their season ended before it got started due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A 2016 graduate of the University of Tulsa with a degree in Speech-Language Pathology, Farrar was a four-year letter-winner for the rowing team and competed in 33 regattas for the Hurricane.
She was a member of three boats that received American Athletic Conference Boat of the Week accolades and two Conference USA Boat of the Week accolades. She was named to the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll as a freshman and sophomore, was tabbed to the Tulsa Dean’s List as a freshman and to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll as a sophomore.
She was selected as a Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete as a sophomore, junior and senior. She recorded a first-place mark in the Varsity 8+ Grand Final at the Knecht Cup in 2016 and a second-place mark in 2015. She also was part of the Hurricane team that defeated rival Texas for the first time in more than a decade at the Longhorn Invitational. At the San Diego Crew Classic, she helped post a fourth-place mark in the Collegiate 8+ Grand Final (2014). In summer 2015, she traveled with the team to London, England where she raced at the Reading Amateur Regatta and the Women’s Henley Regatta, where they finished ahead of Oxford among others.
Before moving to Tulsa, Farrar competed for the Pittsford Crew under the direction of head coach Sue Parvin. She raced in the women’s 4+ to a gold-medal finish at the New York State Championships, which then competed at the Youth Nationals in the women’s 4+ and claimed a fifth-place mark.
In 2011, she captured a seventh-place finish in the Youth 8+ at the Head of the Charles and was a member of the Varsity 8+ that finished third at the New York State Championships. In 2010, she turned in a sixth-place mark in the Youth 8+ at the Head of the Charles. She was the previous head coach of Our Lady of Mercy High School team.
Farrar’s younger sister, Olivia, races for Harvard-Radcliffe and has competed on the u23 National Team for four straight years, this past year winning Bronze at Worlds in the Lightweight 4x.
In her free time, Farrar enjoys hiking, reading and skiing. In addition to coaching at Nazareth, she works as a Personal Aide to a special-needs woman and as a ski instructor at Bristol Mountain.
She is a US Rowing Level II Certified Coach.
