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Tom Scifres & Iona College Rowing

Tom Scifres & Iona College Rowing

Nate Rooks
January 24, 2013

I used to dream of living in a location where I could commute via rowing. I would have a small dock with a beautiful lightweight, wooden scull on chalks, waiting eagerly for me to put her in the water. Every morning I would grab my sticks and pick...

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Colin Truex & UCSD Women's Rowing

Colin Truex & UCSD Women's Rowing

Nate Rooks
January 24, 2013

Year-round sunshine, warm temperatures, the Pacific Ocean, the eighth largest city in America and the second largest in California, a bustling center of defense, international trade, biotechnology, and healthy living—San Diego sparkles like a...

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Peter Steenstra & Bates College Rowing

Peter Steenstra & Bates College Rowing

Nate Rooks
December 24, 2012

You have to want to go to Bates College if you want to go row for Bates College. Seems obvious, but Head Coach of the Women's and Men's varsity rowing teams Peter Steenstra doesn't think so. "We don't want to have a kid who...

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Steve Gladstone & Yale Men's Rowing

Steve Gladstone & Yale Men's Rowing

Nate Rooks
November 24, 2012

It is hard to find an American collegiate rowing program as storied as the Yale Heavyweight Men. By some marks, it would be impossible, considering it is the very oldest. The first ever college boat club was founded there in 1843 (Harvard followed a...

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