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...starting line of the race course is about three kilometers away from the boathouse,” said senior four seat Mansour Benkreira, “so you have to leave the boat house about 45 minutes before the start of your race. So we didn’t know what the results of the other races were while we were warming up on the water.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...pretty excited to see how much more speed we can get out of this boat,” Adomanis said. CORRECTION: The April 30 sports article "Lights Return Trophy-Heavy" contained several errors. First, it incorrectly identified the the Vogel Cup as the "Volger Cup." Second, senior Mansour Benkreira, who is described as the varsity four-seat in the article, is in fact the varsity two-seat. Finally, varsity coxswain Mark Adomanis is quoted in the story as saying, "It goes way back to the start of Olympic rowing." In fact, Adomanis stated that the tradition hearkened back...
...someone who almost never picked up an oar in the first place, Mansour Benkreira has made quite a name for himself in the Newell Boathouse.Benkreira, a senior oarsman for the varsity lightweights, is now an indispensable component of the Harvard varsity. But had things gone differently in his freshman year at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., rowing might never have even crossed his mind.“I started rowing in ninth grade because I tried out for JV football as a 135-pounder,” Benkreira says.In a sport largely confined to elite private institutions, Wilson...
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