Word: coxswains
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...attempt to qualify for the 1968 Olympics was rocky as well. Parker’s eight secured the U.S. entry with a 0.05-second win over Penn in the Olympic Trials. The Harvard win fulfilled a five year-old promise made by the Olympic eight’s future coxswain, Paul Hoffman ’68, who taped a Mexico travel poster on the Newell Boathouse locker room on his very day as a freshman in 1963. Hoffman’s ability to stir the Harvard varsity even as a freshman proved quite the augur: he was almost expelled from...
...schizophrenic weather that marks racing season from beginning to end.It is perhaps the sports tradition most similar to dousing a coach with Gatorade after a huge victory, but few coaches weigh under 125 pounds and are flung with ease into the icy depths of Lake Quinsigamond. But coxswains won’t complain about that. Their job is endlessly stressful and rife, perhaps, with misplaced blame, but a sopping wet and shivering coxswain is apt to be a happy one.Why? Only gold medal-winning coxswains are rewarded with ceremonious flops into the waters of the race course. The tradition...
...After about 30 strokes we were a length up, and then we just kept the pressure on,” coxswain Joe Lin said. “I thought it was a good way to end the season, a good effort by a lot of guys who like to race together...
...There are definitely things to change and to improve, but considering the way first races go, we did really well,” varsity coxswain Mark Adomanis said after the Cornell race...
...Navy’s always hard, but we’ll have a good advantage because we’ll be on our home turf,” said second varsity coxswain Kevin He before the race. “We’re strong and work well together, and in the end, it all comes down to determination...