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Andy Anderson

Doctor Rowing, a.k.a. Andy Anderson, has been coxing, coaching, and sculling for 55 years. When not writing, coaching, or thinking about rowing, he teaches at Groton School and considers the fact that all three of his children rowed and coxed—and none played lacrosse—his greatest success.
News

We’re All In The Same Boat

Is the idea dead in the water because someone missed a stroke? Maybe you were rowing into a headwind and it’s time to rock the boat by telling everyone to pull together and row in the same direction.
Advice

Doctor Rowing: Naming Rites

I pray that you aren’t going to waste the opportunity to honor someone by giving it a jokey name, like “No Crabs”.
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College

Cal Men Celebrate 150 Years

A new movie boasts of the many successes since rowing began at Cal in 1875 but it’s mostly about the culture of the team today and the family the Golden Bears build.
Features

Doctor Rowing: Joe Burk’s Character of a Champion

Despite losing the singles trials for the 1936 Berlin Olympics to a fellow Penn AC sculler, Joe Burk did not sulk. He went back to the family farm, got back in his single, and rowed his own style with his own strategy.
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Why Do You Love the Head of the Charles?

Is it the fall weather, friendships, and community? The excitement, enthusiasm, and sportsmanship? The babes, studs, and crashes? Or seeing great rowing up close?
Advice

Doctor Rowing: How to Watch the Head of the Charles

A cheeky guide to the best places to see the action, mayhem, and fun from a super fan who has attended the storied regatta 25 times.
News

Revenge of the Lightweights

Shunned by the Olympics and World Rowing, rowers of “normal size” are posting sensational times, racing to exciting finishes, and occasionally beating the big boys.
Coaches

Doctor Rowing: A Bridge to the Past

Coach Graf could be impatient and gruff, but deep down he was a teddy bear with some wild ideas—like buying an old power plant and hanging boats vertically like sides of beef. When it was rumored that the HELCO plant was going to be sold, Graf dreamed of buying it.
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Doctor Rowing: One Tough Kid

A runner switches to erg training but still has a personal best? There must be something to this erg stuff.
Doctor Rowing

For a Faster Boat, Go Naked

Pearls of wisdom about the care and maintenance of your chariot, though it's really all about the horses.
Doctor Rowing

Thoughts on the Micro-Pause from Josy Verdonkschot

USRowing Chief High Performance Officer Josy Verdonkschot joins Doctor Rowing's ongoing debate about the merits of the micro-pause.
News

Doctor Rowing: The First Family of Rowing

Meet the Rushers of Wisconsin—Jack, Cindy, Kay, Alie, and Nick—four of them Olympians, three of them medal winners.
News

Letters to Doctor Rowing: Potent Pause

Doctor Rowing received the following letters regarding his column on the micropause from two coaches who are students of the sport, both coincidentally named Gregg.
News

Doctor Rowing: Meditations on the Micropause

After watching the races at Henley, our curious columnist isn't sold on the micropause. He clings to the bicycle-chain analogy of the rowing stroke as a continuous cycle.
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News

Team USA Defeats World All Stars at Lenny Peters Cup

Created as a Ryder Cup-style contest to boost interest, this year's Lenny Peters Cup at the Bethany Medical North Carolina State Rowing Championships featured Olympians on both squads.
News

Lenny Peters Cup & North Carolina Rowing Championships

Olympians Jacob Plihal, Grace Joyce, and Sophia Vitas are joined by national teamers Sam Melvin, Isa Darvin, Cedar Cunningham, Evan Park, and Caleb Nollenberger for Team USA, racing an all-star world team in Ryder Cup-style competition in North Carolina.
News

A Time to Rig and a Time to De-Rig

You don’t need to know every skill but you should know all the parts of a boat so you can describe equipment problems accurately to facilitate solutions.
College

Trinity Men, Radcliffe Lightweights Win Knecht Cup

Over 76 college programs packed Camden County's Cooper River racecourse for two days of six-lane racing.

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