Mitchell Opatowsky ‘15

Fedora. Glasses. Mustache. Clenched shoulders.  A mythic character touts into the spotlight with precise steps, his sleeves rolled up beyond the elbow to display an appropriate amount of the gun show that is his arms. And then, he speaks: “Ladies and gentlemen,” Mr. Donahue squeaks out to the gathering audience in the Lecture Hall, pronouncing ‘gentlemen’ not so gently, “We will...

On September 4, the crew team, led by Coach Fife, tested  its athletes with a twenty-minute ergometer standard piece , or exercise, set at “easy” splits . A split is the level of push that each stroke gets, as set by Coach Fife. The ergometer, or indoor-rowing machine, is an important part of the crew team’s training. This “torture device,”...