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The biggest myth in rowing is that we can’t [insert your idea here]. There are four other whoppers, all equally false, that I debunk in the feature “The Five Biggest Myths In Rowing,” in the April issue of the print magazine.
I’m sure more than one person told Michael Herman, who didn’t find our sport until after college, that you can’t just teach yourself to row on an erg and then go to the Olympics. He’s well on his way to doing so, however, having won a bronze medal in the men’s eight—less than two tenths of a second off the defending Olympic champs, Great Britain—at last summer’s world championships.
Of course, he hasn’t gotten this far without a lot of help from others since that fateful first time he sat on the erg (because the treadmill was broken). Frank Fitzpatrick, a veteran sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize finalist we’re proud to have join the Rowing News crew, tells the Navy SEAL’s incredible story in this month’s issue.
Finally, the spring racing season—the only one that really matters for student-athletes—is under way, and the two fastest rivalries in American rowing, Cal-Washington and Stanford-Texas, are on collision courses, as described in the feature “Old Familiar Foes“, to decide the men’s and women’s national champions on May 31.
We can’t wait.
