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According to teammates and family, hard work and discipline have led to overwhelming and unexpected success on the water. According to her mother, Ann, Remus has always embodied her grandfather's favorite quotation: "Anything worth doing is worth doing well...
...before she was to depart for St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, her father, worried that she would bring no athletic skills to a boarding school that required every student to play sports, tried teaching her squash. After attempting squash, track and cross-country skiing, the skinny Remus finally was convinced by her older sister that crew was a sport that didn't require coordination but rather hard work, something that Remus was used to as an industrious student...
...Remus fell in love with rowing and at 14 began working hard to increase her strength and stamina by running and working...
...mother recalls that from child-hood Remus liked setting goals and accomplishing them...
...Remus says she was never a star in high school--where her main sport was cross-country--and she wasn't recruited to row in college. But she says it took only one day at the Weld Boathouse "to realize that Radcliffe Crew was incredible...