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...fighting her way down the sinuous Head of the Charles race course.Co-captain Laura Larsen-Strecker grew up not far from this Cambridge scene, in adjacent Brookline. She began rowing in her freshman year of high school, after her father took her to watch the Head of the Charles Regatta, and she went out on those sacred waters a few months later. Larsen-Strecker rowed throughout high school, participating in the Head of the Charles as a junior and senior and deciding in her final year to continue her rowing career at Harvard.In her freshman season, she rowed...
...tenure as coach, the team rose to national prominence. In the spring of 2004, the Radcliffe lightweight varsity wont its first Sprints title since 1997. From there, the varsity went on to take the silver medal at IRAs and competed in the Henley Women’s Regatta in England that summer. In the fall of 2004, the varsity four won at the Head of the Charles Regatta and the varsity eight finished third at both Eastern Sprints and IRAs.That success continued in the 2005-2006 season, as the varsity lightweights won the Windermere Regatta and the Knecht Cup with...
Months after capping off an extremely successful 2007 campaign with a victory at the esteemed Henley Regatta, the Harvard heavyweight crew must confront a problem common to perennial contenders: how to continue the momentum of a successful season last spring while also balancing the fact that this is a new year and a new boat...
...finish a week ago didn’t come without a bit of last-second drama. Kovacs stumbled out of the gate and fell behind Yale’s Thomas Barrows early, finishing as low as 12th in once race, but he bounced back in the meat of the regatta, finishing outside the top four only two times in the event’s 12 races...
...placed higher than third since September 23, leaving both the No. 5 co-ed team and the No. 4 women’s team with much to prove.YALE WOMEN’S INTERSECTIONALOn Saturday and Sunday, the Bulldogs hosted the Yale Women’s Intersectional, a 22-team regatta with a combined 12 races. Harvard finished tied for 10th overall in a very competitive field.“I think our goal was to do a little better than we finished,” said junior women’s captain Megan Watson.In the face of inconsistent wind conditions...