Amy Fuller

Amy Fuller Kearney transitioned into a role as Senior Advisor within the UCLA Athletics Department in the summer of 2021. Fuller Kearney assists with a variety of mentoring responsibilities and department projects, while continuing to support the women’s rowing program. Fuller Kearney served as UCLA’s head coach for 20 seasons – from 2001-02 through 2020-21. She established the Bruins’ program as a consistent national competitor, haven taken UCLA through a successful transition from club to varsity status upon her arrival in 2001. UCLA earned its first-ever team bid to the NCAA Championships in 2010 before making consecutive appearances at the national event in 2012, 2013 and 2014. Under Fuller Kearney’s guidance, UCLA had produced consistently top marks and strong results over those three seasons that culminated with NCAA Championship berths. Since then, the Bruins have been ranked among the country’s top 20 programs in the CRCA weekly polls (Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association). UCLA finished as high as third at the 2012 Pac-12 Championships and have had success at national events such as the San Diego Crew Classic and the Clemson Invitational. UCLA has routinely produced high-level rowers on the international scene, with multiple student-athletes (both current and former) earning medals at the U23 World Championships. Through the past six seasons, top UCLA rowers such as Saskia Budgett, Kyra Edwards, Marie Jacquet and Carlisle Wheeler have all had success at the U23 international competition. In 2016, Meaghan Volker rowed for the Australian women’s eight at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Marie Jacquet qualified with France for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. In 2021, UCLA raced to three dual-meet victories against Loyola Marymount, USC and San Diego and climbed to as high as No. 14 in the national polls. The Bruins’ second varsity eight finished in fourth place at the season-culminating Pac-12 Championships. UCLA’s program had returned to the water in the fall of 2020 after the Bruins’ 2020 spring season was largely cut short, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fuller Kearney was named the Pac-12 Conference co-Coach of the Year in 2021, along with Washington’s Yasmin Farooq. This marked the first time in her career in which she had secured conference coach of the year acclaim. UCLA opened the 2020 spring season with a dual-meet victory against San Diego State in Marina del Rey, winning all four races, before the remainder of the spring season was canceled. In 2019, the Bruins finished in fourth place at the Pac-12 Championships. Under Fuller Kearney’s direction, UCLA concluded that season ranked No. 18 in the final top-20 CRCA national poll. The Bruins recorded wins against San Diego State and Loyola Marymount, as well as Grand Final finishes in all varsity events at the San Diego Crew Classic. Fuller Kearney guided the Bruins’ program to three consecutive top-12 finishes at the NCAA Championships from 2012-14, a feat that had never before been accomplished at UCLA. In 2014, the Bruins finished 12th overall and saw the second varsity eight record a second-place finish in the Petite Final (eighth overall). UCLA’s varsity eight advanced to the Grand Final at the San Diego Crew Classic and won each of its three races against top national competitors at the Clemson Invitational. In 2012 and 2013, UCLA registered its best team finishes at the NCAA Championships. The Bruins finished eighth in 2012 and ninth in 2013. The varsity eight had a first-place finish in the Petite Final race (places 7-12) at each of those two NCAA Championships. Britta Syverson capped her four-year career in 2013 by becoming UCLA’s second three-time All-America selection, along with Vanessa Teff. The Bruins’ 2012 squad not only secured the program’s best-ever finish at NCAA Championships (eighth), but also raced to a third-place team finish at Pac-12 Championships, the highest such finish of any UCLA team at the season-culmina