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...Bulldogs with its strong final push, but eventually fell five seconds short. “[To improve], it’s mostly about attacking the first 1000 a little more,” Shaker said. “We need to find that really great rhythm from the first stroke in the race.” After dominating Columbia last weekend, the crew is anxious to continue finding more and more speed in the weeks to come. LIGHTWEIGHTS As expected, the Black and White lightweights thoroughly dominated MIT on the Charles on Saturday. It was not just the three victories...
...local competition. At that point, however, I was still a nonbeliever, consoling myself with the delusion that my budding love of air guitar was of the ironic sort.I was forced to abandon this stance after a particularly aggressive attempt to perfect my “power windmill” stroke. Sustaining air-induced injuries to my neck and strumming arm taught me that, though the tongue begins very much in the cheek of every air guitarist, it is not long before that tongue is bared Gene Simmons-style and lolling about for all to see. “It?...
...different experience for McDaniel to be rowing on the opposite side to his erstwhile Crimson teammates, but a fun one, he said. Competing against Kosmicki in particular, who stroked Harvard’s varsity eight after his own tenure in stroke seat finished, he mentioned, added an extra, friendly incentive to win as well...
...first half of the race definitely had the worst conditions, and it took us a little while to settle into it,” Lin said. “Brown handled it better than we did and kept their stroke rating up higher than ours, and after the first [25 strokes], they were about a length...
...captain Jennifer Chung said. “We’re trying a lot of new things this year, especially in the first varsity eight—different people trying new seats that they are not used to.”This flexibility of people, positions, and stroke combination on the boat is difficult to get used to.But the team sees this as a process; these are the steps necessary to finding the most speed for its first varsity eight, to get the fastest team possible come championship time at the IRAs.“I think we?...