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...vendors, the sight of families stretched out on picnic blankets, and the faint buzz of cars rolling by on Memorial Drive. Little does the girl, standing at water’s edge with her father on that October afternoon, know that in a few years she will be captain of a team that has been to the NCAA Championships 10 times, scraping the top of that very river, fighting her way down the sinuous Head of the Charles race course.Co-captain Laura Larsen-Strecker grew up not far from this Cambridge scene, in adjacent Brookline. She began rowing...
Raised in competitive Ivy League rowing towns, captain Pat Mulcahy and fellow senior Matt Young were brought up to hate Harvard, their hometown schools’ rival on the water.But in the end, the two lightweight standouts couldn’t resist the call of the Charles.Hailing from Ithaca, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Penn., respectively—the homes of lightweight crew powerhouses Cornell and Penn—Mulcahy and Young have long been exposed to top-notch crews.By living in places where crew was a prominent sport, the two benefited from great coaching and plenty of local competition when they...
...helm, the crews must maintain that standard.Despite the coaching change, the philosophy will be the same—and the goal of a season-ending championship remains the same.“We’ve met with both coaches a couple of times,” co-captain Amanda Kolb says. “[Stevens] is in favor of sticking with Tucker’s plans. They have somewhat different styles, but they’re going to stick with the overreaching goals.”Tucker’s Radcliffe crew career began long before her coaching days...
...river in June, back in the NCAA Championships. And this year, the team expects even more.“Last year, we were in the Petite [Final], so now, we want to put ourselves in a position to win a medal,” junior co-captain Liz Demers says, referring to the Black and White’s 11th-place effort at the NCAAs. “The next step is to get ourselves to the Grand Finals.”The crew is poised, but it is also young. Two of the leaders of the team, one commodore...
...victoriously fling their coxswain off the winner’s dock and into the waters below. “After Sprints last year, we got to throw [varsity coxswain] Jess [Hoy] in,” says senior heavyweight varsity stroke George Kitovitz. “Then we threw [captain] Joe Medioli in there just for fun. It’s a great feeling.”Nothing is so rewarding for coxswains nor so indicative of the size and role differential between coxswains and oarsmen on a crew. Like football coaches, coxswains receive the ceremonial bath of victory?...