Word: crews
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...Through the years, it didn’t get a lot of attention,” Reardon says. “From time to time, an engineering crew would come through and make sure it was okay. One of those engineering studies suggested it wasn’t okay, and if we didn’t do anything to get it in shape, we’d lose it in a few decades...
...Ironically, part of the problem of promoting diversity is the longevity often associated with Crimson athletic positions. Hired in 1982, former track and field and cross country coach Frank J. Haggerty ’68 didn’t retire until last year. And legendary crew coach Harry Parker has been at Harvard since...
Radcliffe should have known. The few who follow women’s lightweight crew understand the nature of the sport in which anything can happen. With a field that is growing by the year, as more and more schools put out varsity eights to compete, the sport is wide open, and surprise finishes are beginning to become the norm. Never was this more evident than on Saturday at the IRA women’s national championships. Moving out of obscurity and into the national spotlight, the Bucknell Bisons won their first-ever national title, winning the lightweight Grand Finals with...
Kerry M. Healey ’82 was finishing the spring semester of her senior year of high school when she received an invitation from the head of the Harvard men’s crew team to try out for a selective spot as varsity coxswain. At 5’9” and with a (self-acknowledged) androgenous name, she found herself the lone woman amid some 80 men at the tryout...
...Crime: In 1986, an Oklahoma City woman returning to her apartment complex was sexually assaulted. The victim could not identify her attacker - only that he was wearing a tan shirt. Pierce, part of the landscaping crew for her apartment complex, happened to be wearing a tan shirt and was placed in the photo lineup. The victim identified him, and he was sentenced to 65 years in prison for rape and robbery...