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A Good Start

A Good Start

By  Marlyene  Royle , Photography by  Peter  Spurrier
Improving your starts for 1,000- and 2,000-meter events means mastering the skills that create stability, strength, and the smooth coordination of movements. Your goal for a racin...
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Rowing Canada Aviron Annual Awards

Source: Jackie Skender/Rowing Canada Aviron
Rowing Canada Aviron (RCA) recently recognized the best in rowing at its annual awards dinner, held this past weekend in Toronto, ON.

This year's event at Ontario Place drew the largest crowd ev...
Early Registration for 27th MidAtlantic Erg Sprints Now Underway

Early Registration for 27th MidAtlantic Erg Sprints Now Underway

Source: Press Release
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Early registration is now underway for the 2012 MidAtlantic Erg Sprints, which will be held on Saturday, February 4th in the Gerry Bertier Gymnasium at T.C. Williams High School in Alexa...
Resolute Racing Shells Welcomes Mark Carroll To Our Account Executive Team.

Resolute Racing Shells Welcomes Mark Carroll To Our Account Executive Team.

Source: Press Release
RESOLUTE Racing Shells is proud to announce the addition of Mark Carroll to the RESOLUTE sales team. He brings over 18 years of experience as a competitive rower and coach to RESOLUTE. Mark has been involved i...

Gouging at the Games

By Topher Bordeau
CoSport is the name of the consumer hospitality package company appointed by the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games as the only authorized ticket reseller and package provide...
Bright Ideas

Bright Ideas

By Topher Bordeau
Performance sunglasses often seem to be as much about marketing as performance: the right combination of edgy prose and sexy photography turns an otherwise unremarkable piece of eyewear into an item to covet. The problem, of ...
Gary Caldwell

Gary Caldwell

By Ed Winchester, Photography by Sportgraphics.com
Spectators at this year’s Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) National Championships probably didn’t notice anything new in Camden. And indeed, little on the surface had chan...
Sucking Down

Sucking Down

By Liz Bernal, Photography by Sportgraphics.com
Former Princeton lightweight and U.S. under-23 national team rower Christian Klein knows his way around a scale. After rowing as a heavyweight at Thomas Jefferson High School, Klein shed some po...

Experts Wanted

By Rose Giordano
Effective August 1, 2011, all Division I athletic programs are required to have a designated staff member to be knowledgeable on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) anti-doping policy. The purpose is to ...
How Not to Coach

How Not to Coach

By George Kirschbaum, Photography by Peter Spurrier
People often ask me for my thoughts on how to coach coxswains and I always try to answer them with useful and actionable information. The sad truth, however, is that coxswain education remai...
Fits and Starts

Fits and Starts

By Volker Nolte, Photography by Peter Spurrier
Carl Meyer, a member of New Zealand’s 2007 world champion men’s four, did it. Bryan Volpenhein, stroke of the U.S. Olympic gold medal eight in Athens, did it several times. So did leg...
Where Are They Now?

Where Are They Now?

By Andy Anderson, illustration by John Hooten
How many people remember The Oarsman magazine, and how each issue it featured a cartoon? As good cartoons do, they captured something about the sport that was both funny and illuminating; they he...
Duncan Free

Duncan Free

By Bryan Kitch, photography by Peter Spurrier
Duncan Free won his first Olympic medal (bronze) in the Australian men’s quad in Atlanta. He stayed put in the boat for Sydney and again in Athens, before making the switch to sweep prior to...