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...
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...
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...
The Head of the Charles Regatta turned 50 this year. Another year older, another year stronger.
That's how I felt – older and stronger – when I slid down into ... Read More...
To become a confident, competent, successful coxswain, there's more to it than knowing how to steer a boat and call a race plan. It can take years to perfect yo... Read More...
Being small and loud isn't enough to make you a respected or successful coxswain.
You need to know basic commands, as well as more advanced concepts about boat... Read More...
Before you even get in a boat and have to worry about steering, motivating, and zeroing on technique that needs to be fine-tuned, you need to get the boat to th... Read More...
Let's assume you've been off of the water through the cold winter months. And let's assume that you row for a program that doesn't have enough dedicated coxswai... Read More...
Standing a mere 5’ tall (or short, depending on your perspective), I am apparently the ideal size to be a coxswain.
Considering I can’t reach the top shelf of ... Read More...
Mary Whipple isn't just any coxswain. She could talk about rowing for a week, and I'd listen the entire time.
At the moment, three-time Olympic medal-winning c... Read More...
No matter how much experience you have in the coxswain seat, a little extra help can go a long way. With seven bridges, six big turns and three miles of river t... Read More...
