Carl Ullrich '50 will be honored as the 2017 recipient of the Cornell Rowing Association's "Whitey" Mullestein '32 Leadership Award. The award is presented to those who have provided a lifetime of distinguished support to the Cornell Crews. The dinner will be held at the Cornell Rowing Center in Ithaca, NY. To sign up for the dinner, please click here.

Carl Ulrich served in the Navy and the Marine Corps. He rowed at Cornell and helped the crew win a national championship in 1949. After serving in the Korean War with the Marines, Carl served as a rowing coach at several schools, including stints at Cornell, Columbia, Boston College and the Naval Academy, where he eventually ended up in administration in the athletic department. He left the Naval Academy for a brief stint as Athletic Director at Western Michigan University before becoming the first civilian Athletics Director at West Point Military Academy. In perhaps the most important decision he made there, he replaced the football coach with a new coach - Jim Young - who proceeded to turn around the program and lead the Black Knights to three bowl games and three Commander in Chief's Trophy titles. After retiring from West Point, Carl took over the newly formed Patriot League and tried to retire again. St. Andrew's College in North Carolina pulled him back into an Athletic Director role two more times before he finally retired to Virginia.

In 2007, Carl was inducted into the Army Sports Hall of Fame.

Carl has been married to his wife Becky for over 60 years, over which time they have raised five children. His family and friends, as well as several of the rowers who were coached by Carl while he was at Cornell, will all be attending the dinner. We are all looking forward to a wonderful evening to honor Carl's many years of dedicated support of the Cornell Crew.