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From the season-opening sweep against the University of Delaware, the entire lightweight squad has been striving for perfect race performances. The varsity and freshman eight beat every opponent they faced this dual-racing season, including Cornell, Penn, Georgetown, St. Joseph’s, Dartmouth, Navy...
Rowing is a sport of repetition. Although an oarsman may achieve one perfect stroke, to repeat that flawless motion even twice, never mind over 200 times down a 2,000-meter race course in sync with seven other people, is a true feat. Fortunately, when it comes to racing, a crew just has to come closer to perfection than its opponent in order...
After defeating Cornell in its first dual race of the season, the Crimson fell to the Brown Bears in Providence, R.I. on Saturday, Apr. 10. The Bears took first at Eastern Sprints last year, and another loss to Brown—this time early in the season—motivated Harvard to step up its training before it would line up again against the Bears at Sprints...
...race went to plan,” said junior and varsity two seat Anthony Locke. “We always had a quick start, and the problem had been falling off the pace in the middle where Brown was strongest. So we always practiced the third quarter and going faster there. That’s what we did [at Sprints], and when it came to it, Brown didn’t have anything else it could give in the third quarter, nor did Princeton really...
That kind of atmosphere helped the Crimson stay loose in a tight race for the Ivy title. When Harvard’s six-game winning streak was snapped by Wake Forest, the Crimson didn’t miss a beat in its following games, when the team tied Cornell and rallied to knock off then-No. 15 Brown. And when an upset loss to Princeton threatened to dismantle the team’s Ivy title hopes, Harvard responded by going undefeated for the rest of the regular season to capture the crown. Throughout the year, the Crimson athletes played with...