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...Regatta, as sophomores get used to the varsity program.Nonetheless, the team feels confident heading into this first fall test. Larsen-Strecker and Demers have the team ready to succeed.“Laura is extremely wise on the river, she has great boat feel and great knowledge of the stroke,” Demers said. “It’s hard to train really hard consistently, but she does it.”This final year marks the culmination of Laura’s career, a seven-year journey across the river that winds through Boston, with...
...after winning a championship race, oarsmen team up to victoriously fling their coxswain off the winner’s dock and into the waters below. “After Sprints last year, we got to throw [varsity coxswain] Jess [Hoy] in,” says senior heavyweight varsity stroke George Kitovitz. “Then we threw [captain] Joe Medioli in there just for fun. It’s a great feeling.”Nothing is so rewarding for coxswains nor so indicative of the size and role differential between coxswains and oarsmen on a crew. Like football coaches...
...They rowed as an eight all year long,” co-captain Amanda Kolb says. “Through Sprints, they all rowed together, so that was a big part of [their chemistry]. Their rowing style and their stroke was very similar, so that’s what we’re working on a lot now—making sure that our power application is the same throughout the boat...
...improved upon his first-round 78 with a five-over 76 in the second round. The tournament team title was won by St. Bonaventure, while the individual title went to Iona’s Sean Curtin, who posted back-to-back scores of 72 to finish 2-over, one stroke ahead of Central Connecticut’s Matt McClure. Harvard’s ninth-place finish pales in comparison to the strong team showing last weekend at the MacDonald Cup, at which the team placed fifth out of a field of 25, and at the season-opening Mid Pines Intercollegiate...
...their part, Stamler, who consults for a company developing NO-based therapies, and McMahon, whose work was funded in part by another such firm, are thinking about using transfusions of NO-fortified donor blood to treat such ills as heart disease, stroke and diabetes. "We want to open up blood vessels, and blood knows how to do that," he says. Perhaps a nitric oxide boost would help it do its job even better...