Word: coxswain
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...oarswomen, after only ten less than auspicious practice starts, started strongly, and when they settled from a rate of 39 strokes per minute to a full-power 32, coxswain Rosemarie Sabatino was sitting on MIT's three-seat...
Sleepy, nervous "good mornings" echo in the strangely quiet locker room, and you steel yourself for the still-cold March air over the river. The rest of your crew arrives and the coxswain organizes you for taking out the shell: Four-man shells today. Your bare feet welcome the warmth of the sun-bathed dock, and the boat slides into the water easily...
...Institute. "You learn to get along with other guys here, to work with them and have fun with them," says Smilin' John, the "Alpha"--Greek for Grand Illustrious Poobah. "Responsibility" is a word Smilin' John barks at his charges with the regularity of a firm coxswain. "It might be true that you lose some independence here, but we all come to agree that it's for a good cause," he says...
...another and collide with bridges. Many crews never even make it past the first turn, on Magazine Beach, where last year a heap of fours collided with each other and a committee boat, landing them all on the littered shores. Anderson Bridge usually claims a few, especially when the coxswain do not anticipate the subtle curve at the bridge...
...boat might have placed higher in the senior eights final had the race not begun before the Radcliffe shell was ready. Coxswain Meg Ziegler said afterwards that although the crew plied extra hard to make up lost ground, their opponents' premature start hindered the crew's chances...