Word: mccagg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Remus follows a legacy of Radcliffe Crew alumnae who went on to national prominence. Twin sisters Mary and Betsy McCagg (both '89), Lindsay H. Burns '87, and Cecile Ulrich Tucker '91 all competed last summer in Atlanta...
...silver will be the school's only medal in these games--Harvard's best hopes had been in the women's eights which featured Elizabeth S. "Betsy" McCagg '89 and her sister Mary R. McCagg...
...women know, though, that Buschbacher is in it for them, and with them. "When we won last year, he was right on the shore, and he already had this beer that was half empty," remembers Mary McCagg, laughing. "Hartmut smiled for 10 minutes after that. It was great." Says Annie Kakela, 25, who is planning a post-Olympic trip to Alaska with her boyfriend, a rower on the men's team: "Not everyone agrees with the mental games he can play to push you to your limits, but I trust him to make me the best that...
...boat they spent months competing against one another in pairs, that most of them are more than 6 ft. tall and weigh upwards of 160 lbs. And that things can get ugly when they're not moving water together. "Rowing is the most noncontact sport around," says Betsy McCagg, "so when we get in where we can actually touch each other, all hell breaks loose. We used to play basketball, but we're all centers. You'd get seven people in the middle with their hands up, elbowing each other in the head." During a race, at least, their...
...just a moment, the boat vanishes, whooshed out of sight up the Tennessee River by the silent power that is the Eight. And that is nothing compared with the display of force they plan for July. "I think we're ready to inflict ourselves on everyone else," says Betsy McCagg. "We're racers, so that's what we want...