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    Hannah Woodruff

    Hannah Woodruff is an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Radcliffe heavyweight team. She began rowing at Phillips Exeter Academy, was a coxswain at Wellesley College, and has coached college, high-school, and club crews for over 10 years.
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    The Art of Making Mistakes

    Owning up to mistakes honestly and without groveling earns respect and credibility. Learn from them and hop back in the stern and show how resilient and responsible you can be.
    Coaches

    Coxing: A Feast for the Eyes

    Coxswains can see much more standing in the erg room than sitting in the stern. You can see where rowers begin a session and how technique changes from fatigue or stress.
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    Coxing: Winter Wear

    For coxswains, the goal is comfort and warmth. If that means you look like the Michelin man, so be it. You want to dress so all your attention is on your job, and not how you feel.
    News

    Coxing: Making the Most of Launch Time

    As a coxswain, you want to choose your words carefully to reinforce and complement the coaching. In the launch, you can ask why certain phrases are or aren’t used.
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    Coxing: Getting Ready for Your Trip

    Traveling for a camp or regatta can be one of the best experiences you’ll share with your team—flat water, great bonding, and fast rowing in a new environment. But it also can be draining.
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    How Ya Gonna Call? Ghost Racing!

    Calling a race off the water can be a helpful tool. You don’t need to spend hours shouting into a corner. You can do this quietly, and even in your head.
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    Coxswains: Really listen to your Recordings

      The winter can be a great time for a renewed focus on what I...
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    Coxswain Development: Indoor Involvement

    The winter affords you the time to really get to know your rowers, develop your technical knowledge of the stroke, and help move your team forward.
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    Coxswain Development: Fall Housekeeping and Other Chores

    Taking care of your coxing equipment and electronic devices over the fall and winter will ensure a smooth return to the water when racing resumes.
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    Coxswain Development: The Art of Making a Pass

    Every opportunity to pass should be fun, so let that shine through in your coxing.
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    Coxswain Development: The Time to Listen and Observe

    Anticipating the coach’s needs and being a steady presence and bridge between your teammates and coach can build your credibility as a coxswains with both a new coach and crew.

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    The Art of Making Mistakes

    Owning up to mistakes honestly and without groveling earns respect and credibility. Learn from them and hop back in the stern and show how resilient and responsible you can be.
    Coaches

    Coaches are educators and leaders, not customer-service representatives.

      By CJ Bown The recent SafeSport survey that revealed the reasons for coach attrition didn’t...
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    On the Thames, Anything Can Happen

    The Boat Race fixture season is upon us—that time of year when the Oxbridge squads take on the finest domestic and international opposition on the famous championship course.
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    Chris Dodd, 1942-2026

    He covered rowing for The Guardian, reported on more major regattas better than anyone else, wrote several books about the sport, and founded the River and Rowing Museum.

    Since 1994, Rowing News has served the North American rowing community with news, results, features, training tips, and compelling images

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