Robert Edward “Bob” Brown is a retired American basketball player. Brown played collegiately for the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He played for the Providence Steamrollers (1948-49) and Denver Nuggets (1949-50) in the NBA for 82 games.

Billy Bryan is a former American football center in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the 4th round of the 1977 NFL Draft out of Duke University. He went on to play for the Broncos from 1977-1988 and was All-Pro in 1985.

David Allen Burba is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, and Milwaukee Brewers from 1990 to 2004. In his 15-year major league career, Burba’s record was 115-87, with 1,398 strikeouts and a 4.49 ERA. He is currently the pitching coach for the New Britain Rock Cats.

One of the more visible people in the Green Bay Packers organization, Pepper Burruss embarks upon his 24th season with the Packers and his 40th in the NFL overall. Burruss, a certified athletic trainer and physical therapist, enters his second season as director of sports medicine administration after 22 years as the head athletic trainer. He joined Green Bay in 1993 following 16 seasons with the New York Jets as an assistant athletic trainer.

The 62-year-old Burruss was hired by the Jets in 1977 after receiving his B.S. degree in physical therapy from Northwestern University Medical School. One year earlier, he had graduated with honors from Purdue University, where he earned a B.A. in health and safety education. At Purdue, Burruss was fortunate to be a student trainer working under a legend in the field, the late William “Pinky” Newell.

Burruss has won several awards during his NFL tenure. Most recently, he earned the NFL Physicians Society’s Outstanding NFL Athletic Trainer award for the 2012 season at the annual NFL Scouting Combine.

The Packers’ athletic training staff was honored by its peers with the NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year award in 2011. It was the second time Burruss had won the award; the first came as a member of the Jets’ athletic training staff in 1985. Burruss’ Jets staff also was honored at the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) clinical symposium in 1994 by former Jets defensive lineman Dennis Byrd, who credited the team’s emergency care as a contributing factor in his miraculous recovery from quadriplegia. Byrd had suffered a fractured neck after an on-field collision in a 1992 game against Kansas City at the Meadowlands.

Burruss has been involved in multiple head, neck and spinal-care initiatives. In 2010, he was chosen by the NFL to represent the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS) on the league’s Head, Neck and Spine Medical Committee, which led to his subsequent serving on both the Equipment Standards and Return to Play Criterion subcommittees.

Professionally, Burruss has served two terms on the executive committee of the PFATS, first as an AFC assistant athletic trainer representative, then as the NFC head athletic trainer representative.

A product of Wappingers Falls, N.Y., where he attended Ketcham High School, Burruss was inducted into the school’s hall of fame in 2000, and in 2011, he was also inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Trainers Association (WATA) Hall of Fame.

Greg Buttle was selected in the 3rd round (#67 overall) of the 1976 NFL Draft by the New York Jets for whom he would play 9 seasons (1976-1984) at starting outside linebacker. Two interceptions in the Jets’ 1981 playoff game against Buffalo helped fuel a big comeback effort (which ultimately fell short) in the franchise’s first playoff game since the 1969 season. He was a key member of defensive coordinator Joe Gardi’s Swarm defense which included fellow Nittany Lion Lance Mehl, as well as the famed “New York Sack Exchange” defensive line.

Now in his 12th year at UW and eighth year as the head coach of the Washington men’s rowing team, Michael Callahan has helped establish Husky Crew as an indomitable force in world rowing.

In June 2015, Washington men’s crew made history by winning their fifth straight and 18th overall IRA National Championship and ninth straight Ten Eyck trophy (team points title), an achievement unseen in collegiate rowing.

Callahan has now led the Huskies to five straight straight National Championships, for a total of six National Championships in his eight seasons. At the 2012, 2013 and 2015 Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Regattas, Washington achieved perfect sweeps by all five Husky boats—a feat unmatched by any crew in the history of the regatta.

The high level of achievement on the water has continued to exemplify the standard at Washington’s Conibear Shellhouse. Thirteen rowers who have at one time competed under Callahan have become Olympians: four from Canada and nine from the U.S., winning a total of six Olympic medals. Callahan’s athletes have also become ubiquitous at the U-23 level. In 2014 alone, 14 of Callahan’s oarsmen represented their various countries at the U-23 World Championships. In 2015, seven current UW rowers and alumni competed at the Senior World Championships.

Callahan credits his oarsmen’s results to his commitment to developing athletes, demonstrated by his extensive contributions to the U.S. National Team and willingness to take his Washington teams abroad to compete beyond the traditional season.

He led a United States Under-23 men’s boat in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 (gold), and coached rowers from his Northwest Development camp to success in the 4+ at the 2011, 2012 (silver), and 2014 U-23 Championships.

At the senior level, Callahan coached the U.S. pair of Charlie Cole and Glenn Ochal to the A Final at the 2014 Senior World Championships in Amsterdam (marking the United States’ first appearance in the 2-A Final since 2009.)

During Callahan’s tenure, Washington has also sent four boats to the prestigious Henley Royal Regatta in England. At Henley, the Huskies twice won the Temple Challenge Cup (2010, 2012) and in 2013 the Varsity 8+ earned world-wide recognition by making it to the final of the Grand Challenge Cup, where the crew would have set a course record had they not been narrowly beaten by World Champion Great Britain crew.

Off the water, Callahan, who graduated from the UW in 1996, has pushed his oarsmen to excel in the classroom as well. In spring of 2014 the Husky men’s crew had the highest team grade point average (GPA) of the UW’s large sports teams. The Pac-12 and IRA have continued to recognize Washington athletes on their all-academic lists, and 18 members of Washington’s 2014 National Championship crew were on the University’s Dean’s List.

Callahan places importance on developing coaching talent.  Lucas McGee, current coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team eight, served as Callahan’s freshman coach for five years at Washington before joining the U.S. National Team coaching staff.  Bryan Volpenhein current USA Men’s 4- coach was the intern coach at Washington in 2005 while Callahan was freshmen coach. Carlos Dinares now with RP3 was the intern coach in 2006. Successful women’s coach, Conor Bullis, now the UW’s first assistant coach interned for Callahan in 2007 & 2008.  Others have interned and gone on to coaching positions at Cal, Cornell and Dartmouth. Those relationships have continued to breed success with Callahan recently reuniting McGee and Volpenhein them to coach the U.S. National team during the summers. At the 2014 Senior World Championships the U.S. Men’s National Team had all three sweep boats in the A final for the first time in recent memory.

Callahan’s impact has been widely recognized. In 2013, USRowing named Callahan its “Man of Year” and the Pac-10/12 has continued to recognize Callahan’s accomplishments, naming him its “Coach of the Year” in six of the eight seasons he’s led the Washington program, including in 2015.

Before coaching, Callahan built an impressive resume as a rower himself. He strives to ensure his experiences on collegiate, national, and Olympic teams can help guide his current athletes.

While at Washington, Callahan was the captain and commodore of the 1996 team and earned a degree in history. Callahan won four Pac-10 Championships and the Ky-Ebright trophy in the Men’s Varsity Eight three times. In 1995 and 1996 his crews won a bronze and silver medal in the Men’s Varsity Eight at IRA National Championships.

Before coming to Washington, Callahan won a gold medal at the 1992 World Rowing Championships in the Junior Men’s Eight in Montreal. After graduation, Callahan joined the U.S. Men’s National Team, winning a bronze medal in the 1995 Under-23 Nations Cup Regatta, followed by a gold medal at the 1996 Under-23 Nations Cup Regatta. He stroked three U.S. National Team boats at the World Championships between 1997 and 2002. Callahan was a medalist at the 1999 Pan-American Games and 2000 World Rowing Cup, and a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Rowing Team.

While growing up, Callahan lived with his family in six states, including Washington while his father was stationed at Bangor as a U.S. Navy Submarine Captain.

Callahan now lives in Seattle’s Portage Bay neighborhood with his wife Joanna and their daughter Ellison, whom they welcomed in 2013.  Joanna Hess Callahan is a Washington native who rowed at Yale. Her father, Mike Hess, is a two-time UW crew Captain and member of the UW Hall of Fame. Her mother, Andy, was a co-captain of the UW track team. Being a Husky is all in the family.

Hugh Campbell is a former American and Canadian football player, coach and executive. He served as a head coach in three different professional gridiron football leagues: the Canadian Football League, the United States Football League and the National Football League. Campbell retired as the CEO of the Edmonton Eskimos of the CFL in 2006. He was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2000.

Jay J. Carty Jr. is a retired American basketball player. He played collegiately for Oregon State University and was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the 6th round (48th pick overall) of the 1962 NBA Draft. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers (1968-69) in the NBA for 28 games.

Joe Castiglione joined the Oklahoma Sooner family in 1998 after serving as athletics director at the University of Missouri. In his 17-year career with the Tigers, Castiglione, who was named director of athletics at Missouri on Dec. 15, 1993, was credited with rebuilding sports programs, hiring outstanding coaches, implementing an innovative master plan for facilities, inspiring record-setting increases in fund-raising and balancing the budget in each of his five years as athletics director.

A 1979 Maryland graduate, Castiglione received the University’s Distinguished Alumnus Award in April 2007. His career journey began as the sports promotions director at Rice. He then worked a year as director of athletic fund-raising at Georgetown before being hired in 1981 at Missouri as director of communications and marketing. He will mark his 22nd year of serving student-athletes as an Athletics Director at two different institutions.

His commitment to the success of student-athletes has gone beyond the Norman campus and he has served at the national and conference level. He was elected chairman of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee for the 2015-16 academic year. He also chaired the NCAA’s Football Academic Progress Rate (APR) Working Group and completed service on the NCAA Working Group on Collegiate Model-Rules Committee.  He also serves on the Gatorade Collegiate Advisory Board and the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame Board of Directors.

He served three terms as the chair of the Big 12 Board of Athletics Directors and is a past president of both the Division I-A Athletic Directors Association and NACDA. He served a four-year term on the NCAA Championship/Competition Cabinet and the NCAA Baseball Committee and is a past member of the NCAA Football Special Events Certification Committee. He has served on the NCAA Diversity Leadership Strategic Planning Committee, the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Discussion Group, the United States Olympic Committee Athlete Career and Education Strategic Working Group and the NCAA Football Issues Committee of which he now serves as chairman. A former member of the Phi Delta Theta Foundation Board of Trustees, he is a highly requested speaker at annual conventions and continuing education institutes. In November 2011, his hometown recognized him by selecting him for the Broward County (Fla.) Sports Hall of Fame.

Adamle is a sports personality and former American football player. He is best known as the co-host of the American Gladiators series for seven years. Adamle is currently a sports anchor and reporter at WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, he has previously been an anchor at other Chicago television stations, including WLS-TV from 1983-1989 before hosting American Gladiators, a first stint at WMAQ from 1998-2001, and then at WBBM-TV from 2001-2004 before returning to Channel 5.

For much of 2008, Adamle worked for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in a variety of roles, including interviewer, play-by-play commentator and General Manager of Raw.