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...that’s not it. Everybody—every Harvard rower, at least—has heard the same words before...
What goads them? What makes former Harvard Oarsman Tiff Wood keep training into his 30s? Why does onetime Yale Rower John Biglow ignore severe back pain to continue his training? Why is Brad Lewis, a brooding Californian, so determined to beat the Ivy Leaguers at their own sport? Certainly it is not money, and surely it is not fame. Halberstam, who took the time to get to know the oarsmen in their boats and onshore, offers some provocative answers. They are not likely to make the sport or the sportsmen popular, but they provide valuable insights into the psychology...
...meter race attracts a diverse group of rowers. Freshman Avery Williams volunteered at the competition and coxed a 15-year-old boy in one event and then had to test her Spanish skills by coxing a veteran rower from Mexico in another. Some C.R.A.S.H.-B competitors, like those from Harvard, are used to competing on water, but others have never been on a boat...
Senior lightweight rower Dave Stephens had a repeat of his 2003 performance, winning the lightweight collegiate men’s event again, with a time of 6:17.30. Freshman Moritz Hafner was behind him with a time of 6:19.60. Sophomore Marc Luff came in third with a time of 6:21.50, shaving over two seconds off his 2004 performance...
Allie C. Johnson ’05 admitted that one attraction of the Head of the Charles was the “cute foreign guys in boats... or not in boats,” she trailed off as a chiseled rower strode by. One could also find a great match for one’s dog among the many pure-breds on parade...