Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crew cut to intimidate the opposition...
...Murphy, my roommate, rows crew and I swim...
Jennifer C. Keeler '86 studied men and women on the lightweight and heavyweight crew teams as well as the basketball team for her senior thesis for the Psychology Department. While she found that men on both teams were more concerned about weight than normal, they did not have an excessive or dangerous preoccupation with weight. "In general, athletes tend to be pretty healthy," she says, though she adds she did find some individuals who had problems. "It's more of an individual thing or predisposition than something that is caused by a sport that has a weight restriction," she says...
...coaches of the crew teams try to watch their rowers and catch any students who may be having nutrition problems, says Harry Parker, the men's heavyweight crew coach. "Certainly when some of the lighweights have to lose weight, they think about it a lot. But I haven't seen anybody exhibit what I would consider dangerous levels." Parker says the coaches try to counsel their rowers about good nutrition and eating patterns. The counseling "has been very effective in recent years," he says...
...Crew teams have an obvious reason for concern about weight. Lightweight rowers have to weigh in at a certain level or they don't row in that boat. But for many other people, weight concerns develop for less discernable, psychological reasons...