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...real women's problem and doesn't go away in women's sports," says Katherine C. Dietz, varsity lightweight crew coach. "They're interested in preserving an athletic body image, but still have a body image problem," she adds...
Lightweight Crew, which until recently required a boat average of 125, produced some of the most diet conscious athletes. But Dietz, who has been involved in lightweight crew for eight years and at Radcliffe for two years, helped to change the nature of lightweight weigh-ins on an international, national and collegiate level...
...previous weight requirement was based on a boat's average weight, not on each rower's maximum weight which meant," says Dietz, "that sometimes one had to pick boats by weight and not by skill." The new system, she adds, "not only allows for people to know in advance what they have to weight but encourages slow and gradual weight loss...
...Dietz agrees, "Most people don't recognize they have a problem. It's like being an alchoholic...
...What makes Nina a good captain is that she is attentive and responsible. She is a national champion [a member of the 1982 varsity] and a role model for the rest of the team," says Coach K.C. Dietz...