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Eastern Sprints will be a test.For the Radcliffe lightweights, it will be a challenge to reassert its lost number one ranking.And for the heavyweights, Sunday will determine if the team’s streak of eight straight NCAA championship births continues.Both squads simply hope they can pass.Over the past eight seasons, the Radcliffe heavyweights have received a bid to the NCAA Championships—to which only 12 teams are invited annually—an unprecedented modern run. This year, however, the streak is in jeopardy, as the heavyweights have lost four straight regattas and post a No. 18 ranking...
...unexpected defeat.In Princeton, the No. 1 lightweight squad could not make it three in a row against the No. 2 Tigers this season, losing the momentum it had built up during the team’s previously undefeated season.On the Charles River the same day, the Black and White heavyweight crew fell to unranked Boston University, stretching the team’s losing streak to four races.At the lightweight showdown between No. 1 and No. 2, Radcliffe was favored to win, but the team’s advantage hung on a thin thread. That thread broke on Saturday...
...After finishing behind Princeton and Wisconsin at the IRA national championships the past two years, the Black and White came into the season expecting a change.The team wanted to get back on top, and the No.1 Radcliffe crew has done just that.With the men’s heavyweight team losing a head-to-head race for the first time in three years, the Black and White is the new top team on the Charles. For those who have gone through past years of disappointment, such as senior captains Sarah Bates and Ashley Antony, it has been a long time coming...
With the entire East Coast racing faster and faster regattas, the Black and White’s boat is struggling to catch up. On Saturday in New Haven, this reality did not change. The Harvard women’s heavyweight crew lost at Yale this weekend, extending its three-race losing streak into the heart of the season. In the first varsity eight, the Black and White fell behind the Bulldogs from the beginning, losing by ten seconds with a time of 6:50.1. “We definitely thought we were pretty well matched up against Yale, given...
...Crimson heavyweights have won three straight IRA national titles in Camden and five straight Harvard-Yale dual races. One of those annual appearances would likely cease if the NCAA adopted men’s rowing. For the lightweights, the NCAA label might leave them to the IRA format or dissolve them all together, since the women’s NCAA regatta allows just three heavyweight boats to compete...