Word: oarswomen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Baker has made a subtle change in his rowing strategy. To avoid the bad starts that have plagued Radcliffe throughout the year, Baker is having his oarswomen take the first few strokes of the race with a shorter slide in order to get the boat moving more quickly and more smoothly. This should help to keep crabs and washings-out from occurring during the start...
There will be an additional sidelight to today's encounter. The race will mark the awarding of the first, annual Burger King Women's Invitational Regatta Trophy to the victor, with individual medals going to the oarswomen...
...over Boston's Charles River. "Get those broads off the water!" The young women, smoothly stroking an eight-oar shell down the waterway once considered the private domain of the hallowed Harvard crew, are used to such abuse. Ever since Radcliffe recently organized its first rowing team, the oarswomen have had to endure sniggering as well as a more serious problem: lack of financial support. No matter. Women's rowing has not only been launched as a national sport, but it is scudding along at an astonishing pace. In New England alone, Radcliffe has a full schedule...
There may be brighter days ahead for Radcliffe's crew. The oarswomen over the past three years have put up with abominable scheduling for practices, understaffing, underfunding and virtually every other sort of administrative hassle imaginable. In spite of it all, they have put together excellent seasons...
Seventy-eight Harvard oarsmen, oarswomen, and coxswains will compete-but not too seriously-in the sixth annual Head-of-the-Charles Regatta here Sunday afternoon...