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Senior coxswain Dave Kang called for a sprint to counter with 500 meters to go, but the momentum had abandoned the Crimson’s oars and the Harvard rowers could do nothing to stop as their opponents stroked right...
...race’s midway point, the Crimson boat led by approximately two seconds, an advantage that was maintained even as Navy’s coxswain called for an early sprint in an attempt to cut into the Harvard lead. But despite upping their own output from 37 strokes per minute, the Midshipmen could gain no water on the Crimson, even losing an additional seat in the process.“From 200 meters to about 1,300 down, we walked up about a length on them,” said junior five-seat Trent Hudson...
...spot by a mere five feet. Last season’s contest was even tighter, when the Midshipmen caught Harvard from behind with 10 strokes to go, eking out a 0.46-second victory. In both cases, the Crimson, its seasons still in relatively nascent stages, cited the lack of sprint practice as the cause of the downfall...
...They got up a length or so at 1,000 meters,” co-captain Ame Bothwell said. “That seems to be where we normally find ourselves, but this time was different, we knew we had to change that—we started our sprint early...
Bothwell’s boatmates agreed that the early sprint was essential...