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...gotten better each year,” Kolb said. “I think winning against the Georgetown novices wasn’t a small thing.” “We had no idea what to expect,” Traverse said. “Our coxswain [freshman Ellen Lehman] had never competed in any sport, but she performed absolutely incredibly.” —Staff writer Elizabeth a Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...
...Since then, Lanre-Amos and Gawlik have been practically inseparable. Both are on the men’s heavy-weight crew team (Amos is the coxswain). Most nights, they double-bunk. They always try to spend “every spare second” together. This past summer, Lanre-Amos lived with Gawlik’s family in Frankfurt, Germany while working at a lab. Her trip included a two-week stint with his parents even before Gawlik arrived home...
...crew team, standing on the diving platform, and churning his feet along the pavement. Davis holds the rare distinction of being a two-varsity athlete at Harvard. In the winter, he is a diver for the Crimson swimming and diving team, and, in the spring, he is a coxswain for the heavyweight crew team. On top of those commitments, Davis completed last year’s New York City Marathon. “Each sport has its own little niche that I like about it,” Davis says. “The leadership I get with the crew...
...win—it’s not worth going out to the race unless you want to win it,” junior co-captain Liz Demers said. “But we were really proud with the outcome. The boat felt really good throughout the race, our coxswain steered an amazing race.” The first varsity finished sixth among the collegiate boats and eighth overall in posting a time of 16.38.04. The crew ended the race 11 seconds behind defending national champion Brown, which wound up fourth and 17 seconds behind collegiate winner Michigan. The race...
...third entry finished 15th in 16:01.492.Despite the large margin between Harvard and its closest competitor in the end result, the race itself was characterized by close turns and narrow passes. “The race got off to a pretty tight start,” junior coxswain Tope Amos said. “We ended up passing the boat in front of us under the BU Bridge. I thought we were going to get penalized for going out of bounds, but we made it.” Near the end of three-mile course, the Crimson had already passed...