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Harvard's first boat went out with a stroke rate somewhere between 40 and 42 strokes per minute. Brown began somewhere over 45, a rate which generally lasts about 20 strokes (or 200 meters) into the race at which point each team settles at around 36. "They were way too high for themselves," first boat coxswain Travis Metz said...
Metz criticized Brown's strategy of keeping its stroke rate so high, saying, "Sometimes you have to take the stroke rate down so that you can go faster. The important thing is efficiency...
...coxswain decides along with the stroke, who rows in the first seat facing the cox, where to keep the stroke rate depending on how the race is going and how the rowers feel. In Saturday's race, Hugh Evans rowed portside stroke. The stroke has to be smart, in order to sense when members of the boat can be pushed, and also aggressive enough to know when they must be pushed...
...California, the crew, which consisted of Weiss, stroke Juliet Thompson, Karen Weltchek, Mary McCagg, Betsy McCagg, Vicki Keane, Joanna Bench, Martha Rodgers and Pugh, will face last year's national champion, Washington, in its stiffest race of the year...
...Harvard was able to stay with the Quakers for the first 500 meters despite a lower stroke rate. Then the Crimson lightweights made their move, as Penn was forced to slow its pace while Cornell, which had fallen behind badly in the first 200 meters, never recovered...