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Given their perspective on the past, and on the three races that await the varsity crew, the individuals on the boat are certainly prepared for the challenge...
Actually, in the past decade, the HVL. program has followed a striking even-odd year pattern of results, winning in the odd years and falling short in the even years. As far back as 1993, the varsity boat won the national championship. Yet, in 1994, with six returning seniors who were all national champions from the year before, the crew was unable to pull everything together, coming up short in both end-of-the-season races...
...crew, who lost to Princeton at nationals by the smallest margin in recent memory. Race officials actually spent 10 minutes reviewing video the determine who won. In the end they said that Princeton has prevailed by the length of the rubber bow ball at the end of the boat--about two inches. And that tiny difference sent one team into greatest elation and the other into the depths of despair. 1997 captain Ryan Wise carried a bow ball around with him, signifying the margin after 2,000 meters, to guide him through the next year of training...
...course in 1997, after the drama of the previous year, the varsity boat won both EARC and IRA victories, and then, still following this odd even curse, the 1998 crew fell to their old nemesis, Princeton, at nationals. Last year was Maclaurin's and Weiss' first year on the varsity boat, so unlike Fallows and Lenhart, they have not won a national championship...
Weiss and McCormack, as well as Elzinga, were both novices when they came to Harvard, and worked their way into the varsity ranks. Sophomore McCormack made the jump from the second freshman boat last year to the first varsity squad. This is especially significant given that the HVL program carries a third varsity and a second varsity boat, in which there are 16 other accomplished rowers...