Word: coxswains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last weekend all attention was focused on two shells racing on the Charles. One boat contained the Radcliffe lightweight fours with coxswain. The other contained members of the U.S. national team, stroking for the Boston Rowing Club...
...raced against them before and hadn't even come close to beating them," said coxswain Katia Rorer. "We had the objective of having a good race...
...hard not to feel good about such a victory," coxswain Jim Crick said, "and it's important to test ourselves against such great competition early in the year...
...think any of us have ever been so happy, not even when we won in San Diego," stroke Jillian Buriak said. "Katia [coxswain Rorer] was saying that we should just try to have a good race for ourselves, but when we were up on them after the first ten strokes, there was no way we were going...
...coxswain decides along with the stroke, who rows in the first seat facing the cox, where to keep the stroke rate depending on how the race is going and how the rowers feel. In Saturday's race, Hugh Evans rowed portside stroke. The stroke has to be smart, in order to sense when members of the boat can be pushed, and also aggressive enough to know when they must be pushed...