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...kind of wanted to go get their autograph.”One of those top athletes she had rowed with before. Davies stroked the varsity eight at the World Championships, and after she led the team to a world record performance, the Harvard grad stood atop the medal stand with a gold medal. As the top rower on the top boat, Davies had found the top in another aspect—as the best heavyweight rower in the world.“Caryn is something else,” Lofgren said. “Stroking the varsity eight at Worlds...
...sixth national championship. In fact, after disappointing dual losses to Wisconsin and Princeton in recent years, last spring’s early successes spoke volumes about the potential of the 2006 lightweights.But it was not to be, as the team ended its season with a silver medal at Eastern Sprints and yet another bronze at IRAs. Despite the June disappointment, the year was a success on some fronts. The team’s number one ranking and second-place finish at Eastern Sprints after two prior bronzes were encouraging, but for a program so used to being...
...golden-stater and sophomore Rebekah Kharrazi is making the Black and White wish they all could be California girls.A native of Alameda, Kharrazi was a key contributor to the success of the women’s varsity lightweights a sesaon ago, as the varsity eight took home a silver medal at Eastern Sprints and grabbed a bronze at IRas in 2006.And she did it in just one year.Starting off her freshman season stroking for the varsity eight, Kharrazi rowed in the lead position throughout the spring—a tremendous feat for a first-year Radcliffe oarsman and only duplicated...
...achievements is quickly silenced by the impending winter, one that promises to mute all IRA speculation until the warmer days of early March begin to thaw the Charles. So it is that in October, the past often does the talking. But the Harvard varsity lightweights, left without IRA gold medals for three consecutive years, have found little solace in recollection.In Newell Boathouse, the current Crimson varsity lightweights with IRA gold medals are few. The last time the Harvard lightweight varsity eight won a national title, this year’s seniors were filling out college applications and racing...
...narrowest of photo finishes to Cornell—the same crew that had turned Sprints into a lopsided race for second two weeks earlier. The Big Red had the advantage of racing in a longer boat, and the IRA officials had the unenviable task of awarding one gold medal into a race in which there were two valid champions.“I know we got the short end of the stick, but that race at IRAs last year—I’ve never been a part of an effort that intense and that focused...