5/22/2002 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Georgetown University men’s lightweight crew coach Mike Porterfield was inducted into the Northeastern University Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, May 17 in a ceremony held in Boston, Mass.

Porterfield (’89) rowed on the NU crews of 1988 and ’89.  His junior year, the crew had a regatta season record of 7-1 and finished third in the Eastern Sprints before coming the first-ever Husky boat to win the IRA Regatta.  As a senior, Porterfield both captained and stroked NU to its first-ever regular season victory over Harvard.  That year, Northeastern was 6-2 and took third-place finishes in both the IRA and the national championships.  Porterfield was also the recipient of the Boathouse Award for Outstanding Contribution to NU Rowing during his senior season.  He then went on to row for the U.S. National Team for five years.  In 1991, he won a bronze medal in the World Championships in the four-without and was voted the U.S. Rowing Male Athlete of the Year.  At the 2000 Olympiad, he coached the women’s pair to a bronze medal. 

Porterfield, a two-year GU coach, led the 2002 lightweight squad to a fifth place national ranking in US Rowing’s Collegiate Poll.