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...team only lost to Georgetown by one second and raced the Tigers closely on the Charles. With disappointment comes hope for improvement, and the lightweight crew is banking on it. “We’ve made some lineup changes,” said senior lightweight captain Lesley Burkett. “So we’ve been working pretty hard over the past two weeks, and [for the first varsity boat], we’ll be able to see how fast this new boat is.” On the heavyweight side, the crew has struggled just...
...defeat does not hurt its confidence, as it is a step in the training toward the team’s final goal: success in two weeks at Eastern Sprints.“We’ve spent the entire spring focusing on [Eastern Sprints],” captain Lesley Burkett said. “We’ve been taking it one weekend at a time until May 13.”And with two weeks off before this championship, the team will be able to train harder this week to find the speed it needs to overcome losses such...
...lightweights raced only their varsity eight. As for the quad competition, each team entered a lottery to gain a spot on the river. Radcliffe did not attain the coveted position.But the varsity eight held its own on the river. Under new senior captains Chung and Lesley Burkett, the crew notched a No. 5 time, finishing just more than ten seconds behind reigning national champion Wisconsin with a time of 17:40.726. The Badgers clocked in at 17:26.851.The top national collegiate boat, however, was the Black and White’s long-time Ivy rival Princeton, as its varsity eight...
...fill two large holes in the program, those left by Anthony and Bates. The team will especially miss the leadership and experience of Bates, who has pursued a place on the U.S. national team crew and currently races with the New York Athletic Club (NYAC).New co-captains Lesley Burkett and Jennifer Chung seem confident in the potential of this year’s squad. Leadership lost aside, the lightweights enter 2006-2007 with the same goal in mind: make it to the winners’ dock in Camden.It is not about what the team will miss from its past...
College courses on the presidency and the number of students who attend them have grown dramatically. The University of Virginia's White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs, which is oriented toward the presidency, started its scholarly presentations seven years ago with audiences of just under 30 participants and now draws up to 80. The center is making plans to build a small auditorium for the forums...