Word: coxswaine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with six members of last year's championship crew--including coxswain Devin Mahoney, Neil Oleson in bow, Dan Grout at two, Rich Kennelly at five, Curt Pieckenhagen at six, and Andrew Hawley at seven--all returning to the varsity, the comparison is not without some interest...
...varsity and JV eights, originally scheduled to race at 11:30 and 11:15 a.m., respectively, were forced to wait out the afternoon because of poor water conditions. The varsity heavyweights raced in almost complete darkness at 6:50 p.m. For coxswain Mary Boland, this meant steering without any visible markers...
...real test for the heavyweights, though, will come against Eastern Sprint Champions Princeton and Cornell next weekend in Ithaca, N.Y. Although the Princeton crew remains formidable with four returning varsity members, the Radcliffe crew also has five rowers and a coxswain returning...
Members of the first lightweight varsity four felt that they didn't meet their potential. Coxswain Kathe Aschenbrenner attributed the less-than-smooth performance to the fact that the boat had only been together "for two practices, and the styles hadn't meshed...
stroke: the most important sweep in an eight. The stroke sits nearest the coxswain and sets the pace for the entire boat by determining the rate of of strokes per minute. Usually a shell will row around 36 strokes (28 for a head race) a minute but pick up the pace near the end of the race during the final...