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...Harvard traditionally focuses its efforts on the championship four and championship eight events, with the four usually occupied by seniors or the members with the most varsity experience. Other collegiate programs—notably Cal, last year’s national champion, and Princeton, the IRA silver medalist—stack the championship eight event with their varsity eights.The University of Washington was the first collegiate boat to finish in the championship eight event, coming in with a time of 14:21.917—just 11 seconds off the pace of the winning US national team entry. Harvard?...
...first and foremost, is a sport about the team. But every so often on the Charles River for the Radcliffe heavyweights, there emerges a star. A few years ago this was Caryn Davies ’05, who led the heavyweights to a national championship in 2003 and earned silver in the 2004 Olympic eight, but now there is a new standout on the river for the Black and White—U23 world champion junior Esther Lofgren.Following in Davies’ footsteps, Lofgren joined the United States’ U23 national team over the past summer to compete...
...improving the squad.”Yet everything always comes back to reclaiming that national championship that has eluded the crew since 1997. But what is most difficult for the squad to swallow is not just this lack of championships, but how close the team has come. As the silvers and bronzes build up, the hope for gold, in many ways, is appearing farther and farther out of reach.Last season provides the perfect example. Radcliffe came out on fire during the spring dual season, notching impressive victories over Georgetown in the Class of 2004 Cup, national champion Wisconsin...
...river, golden-stater and sophomore Rebekah Kharrazi is making the Black and White wish they all could be California girls.A native of Alameda, Kharrazi was a key contributor to the success of the women’s varsity lightweights a sesaon ago, as the varsity eight took home a silver medal at Eastern Sprints and grabbed a bronze at IRas in 2006.And she did it in just one year.Starting off her freshman season stroking for the varsity eight, Kharrazi rowed in the lead position throughout the spring—a tremendous feat for a first-year Radcliffe oarsman and only...
...movie will bring a 1979 age-defying study onto the silver screen...