Word: rower
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...also describes the program’s ability to endure an extraordinary number of public obstacles off the water. The rowers coped with new Ivy League training restrictions, a controversy surrounding a mammoth-sized snow phallus some of them had constructed, a bizarre assault on a first varsity rower by Northeastern rowers, the scheduling of the Crimson’s first national championship appearance in eight years and the resulting alteration of the Harvard-Yale regatta training schedule...
...victory, Davies became the first American rower to win an NCAA title and a world championship in the same season...
...fish tank and filled it with clown fish and blue tang, among others. Some became scuba divers to study their subjects more closely. They hired a "fabulous fish guy," Adam Summers, professor at the University of California at Irvine, who schooled them in the two types of swimming fish: rowers, who move their fins back and forth, and flappers, who move theirs up and down. By coincidence, Stanton had chosen one of each kind--a rower clown fish and a flapper blue tang--as his leads...
...it’s mostly guys voting,” rower Michael J. Skey ’03 guessed. “The guys on the [men’s crew] team find it funny to vote for you...or even against...
Some accuse Pescatore, a graduate of Penn, of underestimating the importance of preserving the H-Y Regatta. According to one rower, Yale’s Athletic Director has been pulling for the heavyweights to attend IRAs for many years, but the old coach was unwilling to diminish the H-Y tradition. Now that a new guard is in, the times they are a’changin...