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Crew, 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...
...Every sports fan has said it. Every sane human has mocked its truth. But everyone still wants to believe it: this is the year.The Radcliffe varsity lightweights are no different. But after three straight third-place finishes at the IRA National Championships and the loss of two standout captains from a year ago—Ashley Antony ’06 and Sarah Bates ’06—the road to satisfying this goal looks more difficult than ever for the Black and White.“We think of the loss of those two captains...
...things gone differently in his freshman year at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., rowing might never have even crossed his mind.“I started rowing in ninth grade because I tried out for JV football as a 135-pounder,” Benkreira says.In a sport largely confined to elite private institutions, Wilson fielded the only public high school crew program in all of Washington, D.C., an area dominated by St. Alban’s and St. Andrew’s.When Benkreira first laced into his foot stretchers, Wilson’s program was barely...
Maybe it’s that the sport is essentially socialized combat to begin with, so any off-the-books brawling seems gratuitous...
...however, hope that Harvard students might be able to transfer some of the energy they now devote to checking webmail, poking (stalking) attractive freshmen on the facebook, discussing the UC or any Boston sport franchise, to reading about, some of the more pressing issues facing the world today...