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Crew is not only a competition against the other teams, but also a competition against one’s own boat. Like swimming, often the greatest evidence of improvement is not seen in wins and losses, but rather changes in one’s own time...
Composed entirely of freshmen, the team is 5-0 on the season, but that statistic is hardly telling of its dominance. While the average margin of victory in a 2,000m race is usually between one and five seconds, the novice eight boat has had victories of 10, 12, 14, 17 and 42 seconds this season against some of the top teams in the nation. In its most recent race last weekend, the boat not only beat the Princeton novice eight, but with a time of 7:02.9 over the 2,000m course, was faster than either the Radcliffe...
...this year’s boat the term “novice eight” is something of a misnomer. For the first time in Radcliffe history, a lightweight boat is composed entirely of recruited athletes...
...Women’s lightweight rowing has never recruited that many people before, maybe two to four recruits per boat,” varsity captain Jennifer Chung, a walk-on herself, said. “[The varsity eight] is probably 40/60 recruited to walk...
...recruits include freshmen rowers Molly Tarrant, Amanda Pfabe, Lani Skipper, Lizzy Majzoub, Medha Khandelwal, Laura Horton, Grace Hollowell, Laurel Gabard-Durnam, and junior coxswain Brady Mellett. Whereas most of the rowers on the varsity boats have rowed with each other a year of more, the entire novice eight boat, as freshmen, was put together from scratch. That the team could become so dominant in such a short time is quite unusual given that none of the players had ever rowed together in the same boat...