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“We flipped before trials while warming up,” Stephens says. He was rowing in a pair.
Once at camp, however, Stephens injured his back just a few weeks before Olympic selection. For somebody whose goal his entire rowing career has been to make the Canadian Olympic team, it was a crushing blow. He was unable to row for five months and spent his time working for...
Then Stephens returned to Cambridge in the fall of 2004, just months after the Crimson varsity lightweights finished fifth at the IRA national championship regatta.
He started rowing again—perhaps for Butt, who had worked so hard to get him to transfer to Harvard, perhaps for the national champion varsity eight he had been a part of during his junior year. But perhaps for himself, too, because Dave Stephens was made for rowing...
“Winning races is one of the top ten things I like to do,” Stephens says. “Maybe top two.”