The U.S. men's junior eight won the silver medal, behind Great Britain and ahead of Germany in third. Germany and Romania tied atop the medals table with three golds and six total medals each.
Bates College coach Peter Steenstra has guided the Maine-based program to four NCAA Division III titles in the past five years. His approach? Let the athletes lead.
Olympian. On-air talent. Coxswain. Coach. Yaz Farooq has had lot of roles in her three-plus decades in the sport. But as the new women’s coach at the University of Washington, her best performance may be yet to come. (Originally published in the February 2017 issue of Rowing News)
Training is an optimistic act. Implicit in every erg workout and weight session is the idea that you can always get better—that who you are today doesn’t have to be who you are tomorrow. This is what drew me and so many others to our sport, and what keeps me coming back year after year.
The U.S. men's junior eight won the silver medal, behind Great Britain and ahead of Germany in third. Germany and Romania tied atop the medals table with three golds and six total medals each.
Writing a plan forces you to think it through, to speak to your rowers and coach about it, and to get it anchored in your brain. It also make it easier to pivot.
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