Word: heavyweights
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Crew, first and foremost, is a sport about the team. But every so often on the Charles River for the Radcliffe heavyweights, there emerges a star. A few years ago this was Caryn Davies ’05, who led the heavyweights to a national championship in 2003 and earned silver in the 2004 Olympic eight, but now there is a new standout on the river for the Black and White—U23 world champion junior Esther Lofgren.Following in Davies’ footsteps, Lofgren joined the United States’ U23 national team over the past summer to compete...
...open in the Olympic double event.“Sarah [Bates] is in the process of going through the trials, and is continuing to do that,” says lightweight varsity coach Cecile Tucker. “[But] the opportunities for success are more limited than [those with] heavyweight crews.”Freshman lightweight men’s coach Linda Muri—a former MIT standout—has encountered the same problem. Although she was a member of nine national teams, Muri never made it to the Olympics, simply because there were not enough seats available...
...slugfest made more dramatic by the alternating surge of each crew’s bow ball.Everyone expected No. 1 Cornell to be up front. But No. 5 Harvard? At a 41? By all counts, the Crimson should have been gassed by the final 500 meters. “Apparently, [heavyweight coach] Harry Parker came up to some of the guys and said, ‘Congratulations, guys. That’s the bravest race I’ve ever seen rowed,’” Hafner says.The Crimson came up just 0.076 seconds short, falling in the narrowest...
...respectively, they certainly are not short by layman’s standards, but in the world of men’s heavyweight rowing, they are below average...
...look at pictures of the varsity when I was in the seven seat, it looks really funny,” says Stegmaier, “because I’m pretty small for a heavyweight and I have a really short torso, so I look really tiny in the boat—it’s like a little baby at the seven seat...