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...those sacred waters a few months later. Larsen-Strecker rowed throughout high school, participating in the Head of the Charles as a junior and senior and deciding in her final year to continue her rowing career at Harvard.In her freshman season, she rowed for the Black and White varsity heavyweights during the 40th edition of the Head of the Charles. Despite a bout of strep throat just days before the marquee fall regatta in her sophomore season, Larsen-Strecker hit the Charles again but felt her performance suffered. An injury left her sitting out the weekend in her junior year...
...wowed Young once, it took a disastrous recruitment visit to Yale to clinch his decision. Wavering between Harvard and Yale, Young visited both colleges one last time. While at Yale, Young was out on a launch with Bulldogs lightweight crew coach during an afternoon practice when a Yale heavyweight boat collided with a sculler going the wrong direction on the Housatonic River. The sculler was injured in the crash.“It was kind of a traumatic experience,” Young said. “We had to pull his single out of the water...
...Tucker’s plans. They have somewhat different styles, but they’re going to stick with the overreaching goals.”Tucker’s Radcliffe crew career began long before her coaching days. Tucker rowed all four years as an undergraduate, racing in the heavyweight varsity eight in the last three. In 1989, she was a member of the undefeated eight that won Eastern Sprints and attained All-Ivy League status in the process.Tucker has been a staple at Weld Boathouse for years a fundamental force in Radcliffe history as a rower and a coach...
Just two years ago, the Radcliffe heavyweights hit a new low. For the first time in nine years—a run that included a national title in 2003—the Radcliffe varsity heavyweights found themselves on the outside looking in, missing the cut for the all-important NCAA Championships.For any other crew, these ups and downs are understood and even expected. But Radcliffe is not your normal program—it is one of the most storied in the history of women’s crew. As a consequence, failing to make the 16-team NCAA Championships field...
...Inside the arena, there was a conspicuous lack of Western Europeans or Americans - strange for a title bout involving the biggest name heavyweight American fighter left. The only noticeable foreigners were those attached to the event itself, the pint-sized Latin fighters on the undercard and the backslapping members of the sport's professional traveling circus...