Introduced to crew only after she had registered at the University in 1975 … Spratlen-Etem did well enough to earn a seat on both the 1980 and ’84 Olympic shells … although the United States did not compete in the 1980 Moscow Games, the 1984 shell came in fourth … at Berkeley, she was appointed to the stroke seat of the varsity eight in 1977 and during the next two years … she helped Cal to titles at the Bay Area Rowing Festival, the Western Collegiate and the NWRA Regional and a pair of Pacific Coast Championships … following graduation, she earned a gold medal at the Lucerne International Regatta in Switzerland and two silver and one bronze medal at the World Rowing Championships in 1979, ’81, and ’83.
