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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...
...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...
...calls for it: after winning a championship race, oarsmen team up to victoriously fling their coxswain off the winner’s dock and into the waters below. “After Sprints last year, we got to throw [varsity coxswain] Jess [Hoy] in,” says senior heavyweight varsity stroke George Kitovitz. “Then we threw [captain] Joe Medioli in there just for fun. It’s a great feeling.”Nothing is so rewarding for coxswains nor so indicative of the size and role differential between coxswains and oarsmen on a crew...
Months after capping off an extremely successful 2007 campaign with a victory at the esteemed Henley Regatta, the Harvard heavyweight crew must confront a problem common to perennial contenders: how to continue the momentum of a successful season last spring while also balancing the fact that this is a new year and a new boat...