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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...
Last year’s novice eight boat averaged in the 7:50s for the 2,000m course, yet this year’s new team has shaved that down an incredible 50 seconds to consistently finish...
...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...