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Coxswains: Lighten your gunwale grip with these tips

Question of the week, from parents of a junior's coxswain: Our daughter started coxing about six months ago and her hands have gotten really torn up from holdi... Read More...

Flipping a Four: What to Do When the Unexpected Happens

It's rare that a crew flips a big boat, which makes it even more important for coaches, rowers, and coxswains to know what to do in case of emergency.... Read More...

Coxswain Tom Beodeker spent 16 years with Lake Union Crew before moving to San Diego.

Hot Seat: Tom Boedeker

When you're a 90-pound high school freshman, your seat in the boat is the ninth. And if you take on the challenge of learning the coxing ropes as a teenager, yo... Read More...

AC Chacon, Head Coach of Long Beach State men's rowing. (Photo: Jasmine McGill)

Hot Seat: AC Chacon

Weight Training 101 is what 110-pound AC Chacon signed up for one fall as a student at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. It was there that a chance mee... Read More...

Understand what three main buttons do and you'll rule practice.

CoxBox 101: Is this Thing On?

Back in the day, a coxswain wore a megaphone strapped to his face in order to be heard by the crew, and used a mechanical stop watch and rate watch to manage wo... Read More...

US Women's 8+ cox-toss at 2013 World Championships. (row2k image)

U.S. Olympic Cox Katelin Snyder: Coxswains ARE Teammates

"Change the culture of what it means to be a coxswain." So proclaimed US National team coxswain Katelin Snyder at RowingTalks, held on the campus of Washington... Read More...

8-Time Olympian: Canadian Cox Lesley Thompson-Willie

When Canadian coxswain Lesley Thompson-Willie won a silver medal at the 2012 summer Olympic games in London at age 53, she became a five-time Olympic medalist a... Read More...

A mixed 8 rows on the Anacostia River in Washington, DC

4 Common Questions a Rower Asks After Years Away

Once upon a time you were younger, more motivated, and willing to push your body through punishing workouts, laughing off the muscle soreness and doing it all a... Read More...

Head of the Charles course map and notes

HOCR: Top 5 Coxing Tips

My first time at the Head of the Charles, back in 2010, I was cocky and under-prepared (see post HOCR 2013: In the Driver's Seat), making botched calls and st... Read More...

Q&A: Bowloader Coxing 101

Question of the week, from a second-year masters rower: I have a little experience with stern-coxed 4s and 8s, but this weekend my coaches had me cox a bowload... Read More...

Sweep, Scull, and Coxswain Camps

Whether you're a high school student thinking about rowing in college, a collegiate rower seeking a spot on the Under 23 National team, or a masters rower wanti... Read More...