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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...
...Jamie didn?t tell me this in spoken words. I watched him type his answers to my questions using a lightweight keyboard. His mom, Sheree, held the keyboard as Jamie typed one-handed. After he finished each answer, he would read it to me aloud. He speaks clearly with good intonation and has worked hard to achieve this, but he still finds it difficult to speak without typing first...
...biggest race of the season looming a week away, Radcliffe could have easily looked past MIT on Saturday and stumbled. Lucky for the Black and White, the squad hit the race running and never looked back. In a dominating performance on the Charles the past weekend, the Radcliffe lightweight varsity four and novice eight boats notched important victories over the team’s Cambridge rival to reassert the Black and White’s momentum, which it had lost last week against Princeton. “Those races were pretty inspiring for everybody,” lightweight co-captain...
...different rivers, both Radcliffe crews experienced the same disappointment Saturday—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...
Third in the nation is a title most teams in the country would take in a heartbeat.Radcliffe women’s lightweight crew is not “most teams.”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...