Somehow our son Nathaniel made the crew team at Boston University. The whole family has come to see his event this morning beginning at 8 a.m.–woo hoo! KSH.
Somehow our son Nathaniel made the crew team at Boston University. The whole family has come to see his event this morning beginning at 8 a.m.–woo hoo! KSH.
Enjoy — I last attended the Head of the Charles over twenty years ago. It was a blast, and, if I lived in New England, I’d go in a heartbeat.
What a blast! Enjoy the day. Hope you don’t have to preach tomorrow, so you can yell yourself hoarse (although I must confess ignorance – do you get to yell and scream for crew, or is it like golf with only mild applause allowed?)
I don’t know whether your son rowed as a schoolboy – he probably did to make the BC team, but in any case, it is a marvellous sport. Of the many sports I participated in, rowing for my university gave me the greatest sense of teamwork and fellowship. Freshman boats often change immensely over the course of the year, so even if it gets off to a bit of a rocky start, they can be superb by season’s end. It is also a great sport for spectators, as I found to my surprise when my daughter’s freshman high school crew won their state championship a couple of years ago. It was as exciting to watch them come down the course as it had been to row, at least if you’ve got a loved one out there on the water.
“somehow”??? He got his strength and persistence from his mother, obviously! 🙂
Go, young man!
Stroke!
Good luck to him!
Best of luck to your son – you have much to be proud of!
Kendall, he will be ready as a Rhodes Scholar to row for your old college Keble and then hopefully help Oxford win the Oxford and Cambridge boat race.
Boy, that brings back memories. The Head of the Charles is one of the Meccas of American rowing (another being to row in a championship regatta on the Schuykill in Philadelphia). One of the great rowing events.
Congratulations on his making the BU crew. Rowing was the most fulfilling experience I had in college, and now I’m old and still really miss it. Am curious, what seat does your son row, and on what type of a boat? (Am guessing if he’s just starting out he’s on an eight.)
I wish him lots of “bubbles” in his rowing career. (That means the boat is so well balanced and the crew is swinging together just right, the boat picks up out of the water and all you can hear is the water bubbles racing underneath your hull.)
I remember fondly rowing in Boston for regattas when I was at Penn. Rowing News magazine had an article on the BU crews as one of the up and comers. You would be surprised in college how many freshman rowers are truly novices. We used to recruit the first week of scholl all the kids who looked athletic and at least 6ft tall. Most lasted a few weeks but many stuck withit and even eventually make the varsity.
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