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Here's one for you early-birds. The men's lightweight crew has a rare home meet, and it's the biggest one of the year: H-Y-P's Harvard versus Yale versus Princeton. The big three in one river. The catch: It's mad early on Saturday morning, to the tune of a 7:30 start. Either go to bed early or don't go to bed at all--just get your butt down to the River to check out the action...
Since September, the Harvard Varsity Lightweight (HVL) Crew has trained for nearly 540 hours. So far, that work has led to positive results in just over 18 minutes of racing...
...lightweight rowing, the National Championship is earned by winning the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships in late May, although the Ivy League's Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) Championships, held the prior weekend, is often regarded as the second element required for the national championship...
...Cullen '96, who is currently the freshman lightweight coach, also participated in that fateful race. For Cullen and his senior teammates, even the national championship from the year before could not shake the demons. Cullen cites that one race as the major motivator in his decision to train for the national team. He has spent the last three years pursuing that dream while trying to forget the Princeton loss...
...lightweight boat race, all of the competitors are of roughly the same size and have trained for relatively the same period of time. As a result the margin of victory is determined more by concentration, and not necessarily by physiological superiority over the opposing crew...