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...right way. ***Perhaps at the start line, they were unimpressive.Skinny. Short. Maybe a little out of place.There is no lightweight freshman eight event at the IRA Regatta. No lightweight freshman four event, either. So in May, Harvard lightweight freshman coach Linda Muri picks four oarsmen and a coxswain from the first freshman eight to line up in the freshman four open weight race. That spring the freshman lightweight eight had already raced to a two-second win at Eastern Sprints—the first time the Harvard freshman lightweights had won Sprints since 1985. The talent was there...
...which there were two valid champions.“I know we got the short end of the stick, but that race at IRAs last year—I’ve never been a part of an effort that intense and that focused,” says senior coxswain Mark Adomanis, who is also a Crimson editor. “I really can’t think of a race that, even while it was happening, it was just an awareness that ‘Wow, we really did step it up from the level where we?...
...government major from Eliot House. As a coxswain for the men’s varsity lightweight crew team, and a native Philadelphian, he has developed a highly tuned sense of observation, and hopes to bring this to bear on the international issues of the day in “On the Lookout.” His column will appear on alternate Thursdays...
...Yale—the two teams that had defeated the Crimson at the Goldthwait Cup just a month earlier.“To dust Yale like that, a team that had given us some trouble in the past, was very satisfying,” said junior varsity eight coxswain Mark Adomanis, who is also a Crimson editor.The success at IRAs was even more surprising given the personnel changes that Harvard had to deal with the entire year. Both varsity boats saw significant changes to their lineups, as rowers swapped seats and even boats as Butt tried to find the combination...
...final 500. But Yale, unable to vanquish Harvard with a final move in Goldthwait Cup competition, outsprinted the Crimson at a higher stroke rating to steal third place on Sunday.“We started to sprint, but the sprint didn’t quite happen,” coxswain Felix Yu said. “We tried to push back Yale’s move, but we lost a seat in the last five strokes.”Harvard’s second varsity finished fourth in a time of 6:25.9, while Cornell claimed gold...