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...describing in some detail all three of the men's teams races--varsity, junior varsity and novice heavyweights--only discussed one of the three women's races that had occurred that day, and even gave that short shrift. The article interviewed men's varsity coach Harry Parker and one oarsman, while it only quoted the varsity women's coxswain. In the final paragraph, titled "Other Crews," reporter Ahmad Atwan interviewed novice rower Terran Senftleben about the novice men's heavyweight race, which Harvard lost. Radcliffe's junior varsity and novice teams both beat Cornell University, but those races were completely...
This year's Crimson representatives did not just participate; they excelled. In the collegiate men's division, Harvard sophomore Bill Cooper reeled in Northeastern oarsman Craig Wigginton over the last 500m of the race, and won the prized hammer. Awarded in recognition of the strength required to beat an ergometer into submission, and not in the pejorative sense in which the term would be applied on the water, this hardened-steel trophy epitomizes the deadly frivolity of the event. Four other Crimson rowers competed in the final...
Four years later, he would be vying for a spot on the U.S. national rowing teams slated to compete in the Goodwill Games and the Olympics. He was enticed to try the crew program by former Brooks student and Harvard oarsman Donald Fawcett '89, who told the high school senior of the excitement of rowing for Harvard. Fawcett sent Sharis a postcard from the Henley Royal Regatta in England and the Boxford native was convinced to give the sport...
...began to rise. The lanky 6-ft., 4-in. immediately found the sport to his linking. Under the guidance of Harvard freshman Coach Ted Washburn, Sharis picked up the basic technique quickly enough to sit in the five-seat of the first freshman boat that spring--the only novice oarsman in the boat...
Sharis has already decided to defer his admittance to Columbia Medical School by one year and, if all goes right, the Crimson oarsman will defer one more year while he prepares to represent the United States in the 1992 Olympics at Barcelona, Spain...