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Even for experienced oarsmen, there’s always the knowledge that immense lactic acid buildup—as common to rowing as outfield grass is to baseball—will welcome them after 2,000 exhausting meters on the erg...
...He’s incredible,” says varsity lightweight bowman Nick Downing. “I’ve never seen anything like it. The heavyweights ask our erg scores and say, ‘Remind me not to get on an erg next to that...
...next to him on the erg, you weigh the exact same thing he does,” varsity three-seat Griffin Schroeder adds, “and he just pulls the chain so much harder. He?...
He’s got more than skill on the erg, according to Schroeder and Downing...
Back in the erg room, Stephens first caught Butt’s eye in his first trip to CRASH-Bs, the world’s premier indoor rowing competition. Under Butt’s watch, Stephens sat down on an erg and churned out a 6:20.3. A high school senior two months too old for the junior division, Stephens placed 30th in the collegiate lightweight division. It was just weeks after the Harvard application deadline, so Stephens went back to Canada...