Word: woman
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...first time in the long and glorious history of Radcliffe crew, a woman will be coaching at Weld Boathouse. As the 1977-78 campaign begins to unfold, Carrie Graves is the newest face along the Charles, and she faces a big test as the rookie coach of the Radcliffe heavies. But Graves's background in rowing gives her a stable foundation from which to work. She spent three years at the University of Wisconsin as the stroke and captain of the women's team, a team that has kept Radcliffe company in the national top five rankings for the past...
...There's a lot of pressure to do well, especially since I am the first woman coach, and Radcliffe has always done well with men coaches," she said...
...past years, there has been speculation about whether Radcliffe would benefit from having a woman coach. Peter Raymond, Graves's predecessor as the heavyweight skipper, said last spring he thought Radcliffe needed a woman coach because he found it difficult to "deal with some of the problems women athletes experience. Only another woman would understand them," he explained...
...Graves initially had her doubts about whether Radcliffe would benefit from a woman coach...
...first, I thought it might be a negative experience to be coached by a woman, since I had always been coached successfully by a man," she said...