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...races by open water—a good margin,” assistant coach Linda Muri explained. “The way the races unfolded gives me confidence as a coach going forward. None of the crews were flustered in the early parts of the race where it’s [typically] going to be close...
...loss for Radcliffe came in the novice eight event, where the crew came in second place, four seconds behind Columbia. Radcliffe’s lightweight team had similar success on the Charles Saturday, soundly beating MIT in the varsity and second varsity events to claim the first-ever Linda Muri Cup. The cup, named after Harvard freshman lightweight men’s coach Linda Murri, who herself has won three world championships and 18 national championships, honored the MIT and Harvard grad for her contribution to the rowing community. “I think she’s the most...
...opportunities for success are more limited than [those with] heavyweight crews.”Freshman lightweight men’s coach Linda Muri—a former MIT standout—has encountered the same problem. Although she was a member of nine national teams, Muri never made it to the Olympics, simply because there were not enough seats available.“Lightweight women get the short end of the stick in international realm,” Muri says. “People ask why I wasn’t in the Olympics — there...
...just beginning.Now they want to end it the right way. ***Perhaps at the start line, they were unimpressive.Skinny. Short. Maybe a little out of place.There is no lightweight freshman eight event at the IRA Regatta. No lightweight freshman four event, either. So in May, Harvard lightweight freshman coach Linda Muri picks four oarsmen and a coxswain from the first freshman eight to line up in the freshman four open weight race. That spring the freshman lightweight eight had already raced to a two-second win at Eastern Sprints—the first time the Harvard freshman lightweights had won Sprints...
...boat comprised of recruited athletes. As many as three freshman eights compete in racing season—each team needs a minimum of 30 oarsmen and several coxswains—and both the heavyweight and lightweight programs depend on a steady stream of walk-ons. Freshman lightweight coach Linda Muri typifies the effort coaches put into finding walk-ons.“I went through all the athletic preference cards to find students at the lightweight and coxswain sizes,” Muri says. “Then I spent a few nights at home watching movies while I wrote...