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...really tense and keeping things fun.”Benkreira is particularly successful it this enviable task. His down-to-earth nature and witty sense of humor entertain his teammates and coaches, alleviating some of the stress that builds up after long hours on the water or in the erg room.During one fall practice, lightweight varsity coach Charley Butt chided Benkreira about his blade work in the water. Butt implied that the pushing and pressure of the blade in the water should be familiar to Benkreira, since he experienced a lot of pushing and shoving in high school.Benkreira immediately turned...
...grueling season and the expectations make it hard to keep up.A month into the fall season, only 56 lightweight freshmen still attend practice.Initially, inexperienced walk-ons get limited exposure to the water in the fall. Instead, they spend the fall improving their conditioning. Practices are spent on the ergs in Newell or running—often up and down every section of Harvard Stadium.Freshman recruits spend the practices before the Head of the Charles rowing with the varsity, while the walk-ons condition and begin rowing on the water under the supervision of a freshman coach.There...
...water entirely the day of a weigh-in, and most everyone does a sweat run, a sweat bike, or a sweat row. These are colloquial terms to the lightweights, almost as commonplace or ordinary as is wearing a trash bag to the MAC, QRAC, or Newell Boathouse to erg for 45 minutes. Much like wrestlers, most lightweights wear sweatsuits to sweat out excess water weight, the more extreme opting for gloves or hats. I layer up with three pairs of sweatpants and three sweatshirts before biking for 50 minutes, sure that the MAC would accuse me of being homeless...
...planning on swimming,” Demers said. “But my uncle, [a member of the 1974 undefeated Harvard crew and future Olympian], and my parents pushed me to start training on the erg...
Demers’ stellar performance on the erg, an individual marker for speed on the river, qualified her for the Junior National Team last summer...