She was a member of the 1986 national champion JV eight and served as captain and MVP of the team her senior year.

[3] Farooq was the coxswain for the first U.S. women's eight to win the World Rowing Championships in 1995 and also won silver medals in that event in 1990, 1993 and 1994.

In 2012, Farooq served as coach of the United States Under-23 women's eight which won a gold medal at the Under-23 World Rowing Championships in Trakai, Lithuania.

[5] In 2019, Farooq coached the U.S. women's pair of Megan Kalmoe and Tracy Eisser at the World Rowing Championships where the crew finished fourth and qualified for the Olympic Games.

The Stanford varsity eight set an NCAA record of 6:11.95 en route to victory in the grand final.

[8] In 2011, Stanford finished in a tie with Brown University for first place in the NCAA team standings, but they lost the tie-breaker by .05 in the first varsity eight grand final.

In 2016, after leading the Cardinal to a 4th-place finish at the NCAA's, Farooq resigned to become head coach at the University of Washington.

Luczak competed in the U.S. women's pair that finished 4th at the Rio de Janeiro Games.

Washington won all three grand finals, accomplishing that sweep for the first time in the 21-year history of the NCAA Regatta.

The varsity eight stunned the field with a sprint from sixth place to first in the final 500m to capture the win.

After the 2020 season was cancelled due to the pandemic, Farooq's Huskies finished in a three-way tie with Texas and Stanford at the 2021 NCAA Championships in Sarasota, Fla. Washington won the fours and second eights grand finals, but finished third in the first eights final.

The tie-breaker (best finish in the first eights final) meant that Texas won the NCAA title, with Stanford second and Washington third.

Farooq has worked as rowing commentator for NBC's Olympic broadcasts in Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, and London 2012.