Word: coxswain
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Radcliffe coxswain Nancy Hadley takes a bit more serious approach to tomorrow's outing. "It takes a lot of aggressiveness and a much different mental discipline to keep going and going and going...
...crew's youngest member is Lynn Silliman, 16, a 98-lb. coxswain from San Diego, who directs the boat with the aplomb of an old pro. The remainder of the crew comes from such schools as Radcliffe, Yale and Wisconsin. Excluding Silliman, they average an imposing...
...pulled back carelessly into a pony tail, and her hands were protected as best they could be by bandages and gloves. Along with the three women who would be rowing with her in the four, she heaved the boat into the river, following the orders called out by the coxswain in a long, low shout. "Okay, hold, Ready? Lift...
Carie had brought along her mail and was reading some of it out loud to Jackie and a couple of other rowers who were at Tommy's, none of whom had been lucky enough to get any letters of their own. The men's coxswain and the women's coxswain at Wisconsin had gotten married, and the coach had gone to the wedding and gotten all excited and jumped up and down, Carle announced. Mail gets to be very important when there's nothing at all to do except row and eat and sleep and row again...
Lynn Silliman, the coxswain, who is only 16 and looks like a 13-year-old blonde-haired, pug-nosed tomboy, had seized the water bottle the crew takes out on the river and was impishly squirting Carie, who looked to be about twice her size. Lynn is obviously younger than the rest of the group, whose average age is 23--when Lynn saw Parker's son George reading a comic book called The Inkumans, she grabbed it and asked with keen interest, "Oh, have you read Swamp Things?"--but no one seems to notice the age gap too much...