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371ROWING AT PRINCETON

COACHES

Jeff Peterson ’84 (Lwt. Fr.), Ed Kloman (Hvy. Fr.), Gary Kilpatrick (Lwt. V.), Andy Card ’85 (Lwt. Capt.), Mike Wais ’85 (Lwt. Capt.), L. Gluck-man (Hwt. Coach), Chris Feudtner ’85 (Hwt. Capt.), Frank Bozarth (Boat-wright)

COACHES AND CAPTAINS WITH TEN EYCK TROPHY1985 IRA at Syracuse

HEAVYWEIGHT TRIATHLON TROPHY

Created by Steve Spear ’86Contributed by Graduates of

19865000 meter ergometer piece

10 miles on the monarch bike (free spinning wheel)

4-1/2 mile run — Figure Eight 1986 Doug Burden ’88

372 ROWING AT PRINCETON

1985 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWS - 1FIRST VARSITY

I.R.A.Challenge Cup Winner –Ten Eyck Trophy

Childs CupLogg Cup

2nd Eastern SprintsCoach L.Gluckman, G.Guyett ’85, E.Corcoran ’86, M.Vatis ’85, B.Sheehan ’87, D.Burden ’87, C.Penny ’85, D.Saxen ’87, H.Backer ’85, J.Dougherty ’86 (Cox), J.Picoult ’87 (Mgr.)

SECOND VARSITY2nd Eastern Sprints / I.R.A.

Coach L.Gluckman, G.Clements ’86, J.VanFossen ’87, C.Hunt ’85, C.Feudtner ’85 (Capt.), C.Hammarskjold ’85, M.Muendel ’86, A.Pratt ’86, T.VanLeer ’86, A.Zecha ’87 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITYEastern Sprints Champions

Coach L.Gluckman, B.Bennington ’87, M.Trautschold ’87, S.Spear ’86, J.Meier ’87, G.Barry ’87, J.Helmers ’87, G.DiRusso ’87, D.Morehead ’87, L.S.Scharer ’85 (Cox)

VARSITY FOUR WITH COX

Coach L.Gluckman, S.DePiero ’87, T.Werner ’87, C.Boyd ’87, M.Bardin ’87, W.Chung ’87 (Cox)


Heavyweight CrewAfter four days of relentless wind, the water on

Lake Onondoga lies still on the race course. In the fore-ground stand the winners of the Varsity Grand Chal-lenge Cup of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta. And for the first time since 1895, the winners wear distinctive black and orange P’s on their backs.

The race towards the IRA’s had begun in Septem-ber, when the highly spirited group of athletes returned to Princeton and set about their preparations for the Head of the Charles. Strong showings by the heavies in this and other fall races set the stage for fierce winter training regimen. A solid trip to Tampa, Florida, and some outstanding performances at the Crash B’s indi-cated what might be in store for this particular group.

The first spring race came against a very fast Navy crew, who barely beat the Tigers in nearly record-breaking time. Victories over Rutgers and Penn sent the crews up to Cambridge, only to lose to Harvard in the varsity event in a record time race.

Then sickness in the first boat brought about some personnel switches. All three varsity crews and the freshmen triumphed over Cornell to end the regular season.

The Saturday Nite Sprints turned out the first Princeton Heavyweight boat ever to win a sprint event as the “We are 3V” boat demolished the field and landed at the winner’s beach. On Sunday, both the var-sity and JV crews finished second to Harvard while the freshmen ended fourth. Still, the overall performance was the best ever from the Princeton contingent.

The final races of the IRA at Syracuse were delayed until 6:30 Sunday morning due to high winds. The Tigers proceeded to dominate the racing and the varsity won. The JV finished second behind the Prince-ton Varsity lightweights, who were also in the JV event. The Varsity Four with Cox took gold, as did the Fresh-man Lightweight Four. The Varsity Four without Cox finished second and the Freshman Eight, after a tough battle, finished fourth. These events gave the Tigers their first Ten Eyck Trophy as well, indicating overall domination of the Regatta.

Lightweight CrewBy capturing the Jope Cup at the 1985 Eastern

Sprints – symbolic of lightweight supremacy – the 1985 Princeton Lightweight Crew team made their mark on Princeton rowing history and are well on their way to establishing a Princeton dynasty. That victory marks the third consecutive Jope Cup for the lightweights, the fourth in five years.

The quest for the Jope Cup began in the fall with strong Princeton showings at the Head of the Charles, the Head of the Schuylkill, the Head of the Connecti-cut, and the Frostbite Regatta. Coach Gary Kilpatrick used the fall racing to introduce the sophomores to the varsity, find effective combinations of oarsmen, and–most importantly—to have fun. The lightweights then went indoors for the winter. Typically, these months are the hardest for any crew. Though the lightweights were no exception, the sense of growing strength, fitness, and team unity made everyone confident of the upcom-ing season. The intersession trip to Florida heightened expectations, as benefits of hard work during the winter became apparent.

The Tigers opened the season decisively, as the Princeton lightweight boat won its first EARC race against Navy. The winning tradition continued with sweeps of Cornell, Rutgers, and Penn. In the Harvard-Yale-Princeton race, hosted by Yale, the varsity cap-tured the Goldthwait Cup for the third straight year, and the First Freshman won by open water. Unfortunately, the 2V, 3V, and 2F boats had to swallow tough losses to Harvard.

Two weeks later, the Tigers went to the Sprints at Worcester, MA, ranked first in the varsity, third in the JV, and first in the First Freshman. Near-perfect condi-tions were not enough for the 1F or the JV to overcome Harvard, while the 2F and 3V also were edged by the Crimson. Princeton’s hopes of retaining the Jope Cup rested on the varsity. The varsity rose to the challenge with their best race to date, rowing to the only open-water victory of the entire regatta. The six-second vic-tory over second-place Yale ensured the lightweights a summer trip to the Henley Royal Regatta in England.

The lightweights will graduate seven seniors: co-captains Andy Card and Mike Wais, Jon Denham, Ruthard Murphy, Charles Cobbs, Peter Lewis, and Peter Paine. However, there will be a strong returning squad.

Women’s CrewUnder the helmsmanship of second-year coach

Curtis Jordan, the Varsity Women’s crew gave a hint

Review of the 1985 Crew Year

(continued)


1985 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWS - 2

FIRST FRESHMEN—Class of 1988

P.Jones, J.Richardson, V.Kennedy, P.Zembsch, E.Grogan, W.Platt, J.Breazeale, S.Gray, Y.Mehdi (Cox)

SECOND FRESHMEN

—Class of 1988C.Webster, M.Gleason, J.D.Delafield, S.Davis, M.Lazris, M.Myers, T.Ball, H.Aiken, D.Yu (Cox)

‘THE FEW WHO DARED . . . TO BE

THE BEST’Heavies en route to the Harvard

Race

(The Mohawks Didn’t Help!)A.Prall ’86, E.Corcoran ’86, M.Vatis ’85, G.Clements ’86, H.Backer ’85


1985 HEAVYWEIGHT WINNERS

I.R.A.TEN EYCK TROPHY WINNERS

Varsity Challenge Cup Kennedy Challenge Cup

Eric W. Will Trophy Stork Sanford Trophy

Carnegie Cup

I.R.A.CHAMPION VARSITY FOUR

WITH COXEric Will Trophy

Coach L.Gluckman, W.H.Chung ’87, W.J. Bennington ’87, J.B.Helmers ’87, G.M.Barry ’87, D.W.Morehead ’87

I.R.A.CHALLENGE CUP CHAMPIONS

Coach L.Gluckman, D.Saxen ’87, D.Burden ’87, W.Sheehan ’87, E.Corcoran ’86, G.Guyett ’85, M.Vatis ’85, H.Backer ’85, C.Penny ’85, Boat-wright F.Bozarth, J.Dougherty ’86 (Cox)


1985 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS - 1

EASTERN SPRINTSJ.Denham ’85, Mike Wais ’85 (Co-Capt.), A.Card ’85 (Co-Capt.)

Wais holds the Jope Cup, the Lightweight Points Trophy, Denham and Card hold the Wright Cup, the Sprints Lightweight Varsity Trophy

VARSITY R.Hedlund ’86, A.Card ’85, S.Barr ’86, B.Shannon ’86C.Cobbs ’85, J.Denham ’85, P.Paine ’85, H.Huntington ’87 (Stroke),J.Smedley ’86 (Cox),

Head Coach: Gary KilpatrickCo-Captains: A.Card 85, M.Wais ’85UNDEFEATED–E.A.R.C.SPRINTS CHAMPIONS–I.R.A. HEAVYWEIGHT JV CHAMPIONS–HENLEY ROYAL REGATTA SEMI-FINALISTS

The 1985 Watershed—Season of ChampionsA new page was added to Princeton athletic history this spring. The Crew Squad of ’85 belongs with names which will always quicken the Tiger partisan pulse—such

as Baker, Berg, Bonthron, Caldwell, Kazmaier, Bradley...and, in the less star-marked, relatively anonymous sport of rowing, say, the Crew of 1921 (read “Heinie Leh & Co.”).

The dramatic scope of this year’s achievement eludes description in terms of single events, for all three squads—heavyweights, lightweights and women—had spectacular seasons. But most splendidly emblazoned on the record of 1985 are (1) the fist IRA varsity champion-ship in Princeton history; (2) both first and second places in the IRA junior varsity race, won incredibly by the Tiger lightweights, warming up for the Royal Henley on the heels of another undefeated year; and (3) the perfor-mance of the women’s first varsity, undefeated until the

national finals, and second varsity, which brought home the national JV championship.

Princeton also won its first overall IRA regatta championship, symbolized by the Jim Eyck Trophy, with the impressive total of 462 points, or 40 percent more than the total amassed by the second-place Navy. Missing the heavyweight eight-oared national championship the following week by a hair-raising three feet left the Tiger appetite properly whetted for another time.

Princeton Rowing NotesJuly 1985


1985 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS - 2

FIRST VARSITYUndefeated E.A.R.C.and I.R.A.

Champions1921 Crew Trophy

Goldthwait CupJope Cup

Platt TrophyWood-Hammond Cup

Joseph Wright CupHenley Semi-Final—Ladies Plate

Coach Gary Kilpatrick, R. Hedlund ’86, A.Card ’85, S.Barr ’86, B.Shannon ’86, J.Smedley ’86 (Cox), C.Cobbs ’85, J.Denham ’85, P.Paine ’85, H.Huntington ’87

SECOND VARSITYK.Royer ’86, S.Adler ’87, J.Scott ’86, A.Ballard ’87, B.Ratcliff ’87 (Cox), T.Finnegan ’87, M.Jones ’87, D.Harrover ’86, M.Wais ’85

THIRD VARSITYD.Stewart ’87, M.Buckley ’87, M.Rossner ’86, D.Moore ’87, S.Furie ’87 (Cox), P.Lewis ’85, T.Kingston ’87, R.Murphy ’85, Y.Abosch ’88


1985 LIGHTWEIGHT WINNERS

I.R.A.THE KENNEDY

CUPG.Kilpatrick (Coach), J.Smedley ‘86 (Cox), H.Huntington ’87, P.Paine ’85, J.Denham ’85, C.Cobbs ’85, B.Shannon ’86, S.Barr ’86, G.A.Card ’85, R.Hedlund ’86

E.A.R.C.THE WRIGHT CUP

R.Hedlund ’86, A.Card ’85, S.Barr ’86, B.Shannon ’86, C.Cobbs ’85, J.Denham ’85, P.Paine ’85, H.Huntington ’87 (Stroke), J.Smedley ’86 (Cox)

H.Y.P. GOLDTHWAIT CUPJ.Smedley ’86 (Cox), H.Huntington ’87, P.Paine ’85, B.Shannon ’86, C.Cobbs ’85, G.Kilpatrick (Coach), S.Barr ’86, J.Denham ’85, R.Hedlund ’86


1985 HENLEY

HEAVYWEIGHT VARSITY

Practice on ThamesH.M.Backer ’85 (Stroke), D.B.Saxen ’87,C.G.Penny ’85, W.D.Burden ’88, W.N.Sheehan ’87, M.A.Vatis ’85, M.E.Corcoran ’86, G.L.Guyett ’85, J.R.Dougherty ’86 (Cox)

of what the season would hold by dispatching a highly touted Brown team in their first race. In the past, women’s collegiate racing has been 1500 meters. Over the past summer, however, the official distance was lengthened to 2000 meters, and 2000 meters became the philosophy of this year’s crew. Their training and mentality became geared toward the extended battle, which proved effective as the Tigers captured the HYP title. With a victory over Dartmouth and a tight race with Rutgers, theirs was an undefeated season.

Entering the Sprints, the prospects for the novice boats were uncertain. Unfortunately, their skill was not demonstrated as they came in a close fourth. The march to the medals began with the varsity four, which captured a bronze. The J.V. took the silver in a display of talent that promises future results.

The Women’s Crew Team looks forward to a gru-eling but extremely rewarding season next year.

1985 BRIC-A-BRAC

Review of the 1985 Crew Year (continued)

The “Move”No discussion of the 1985 Varsity Lightweight Crew

and its season would be complete without an explana-tion of the fearsome “Move” the crew unleashed on its opponents at the 1000 meter mark of its races. Although Princeton’s crews have long been known for a Power 20 at the 1000 meter mark, to call the “Move” a Power 20 would be to call a Tiger a pussycat. While training in the early spring, the crew was practicing middle 500s, including the Power 20. After one of the pieces, Charles Cobbs suggested that on the next piece, every oarsman pull at their absolute limit during the 20, holding nothing back. In the next piece, when cox Jesse Smedley called for the 20, Cobbs let out a guttural yell and the crew laid in. The effect was electric…the boat virtually came out of the water with every stroke, and picked up incredible speed. At the end of the piece, the oarsmen realized they had developed a formidable new weapon, which would be used again and again. Perhaps the most dramatic Move of the season was in the Eastern Sprints Final. In its heat against Yale, Smedley loudly called for the Move while the oarsmen only upped their intensity slightly in a phan-tom Move intended to lull Yale into believing the Move had lost its power. In the Final, as the Tigers approached the 1000 meter mark, they were nearly even with Harvard and Yale. Smedley began a countdown:10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...l...BLAST OFF...SO LONG SUCKERS!!! As the Move kicked in, Princeton began to take half a seat with every stroke. When the Move ended,

Princeton had opened up an entire boat length en route to an easy open water win.


1985 LIGHTWEIGHT FRESHMEN – Class of 1988

FIRST BOATJon D.Evans, Jay D.Evans, J.R.Jordan, J.A.Maffezzoli, W.L.Severt (Cox), G.W.Rollins, M.K.Atalay, T.F.Wray, M.C.Zimmer (Stroke), J.D.Peterson ’84 (Coach)

SECOND BOATA.W.Page, E.S.Whitaker, P.C.Hunter, S.V.Bergen, B.G.Wilkes (Cox), P.B.Alcorn, C.R.Gregg, C.A.Franzon, J.B.Moses (Stroke), J.D.Peterson ’84 (Coach)

OTHER ROWERS ON THE LAKEExcerpts from Program Director and Coach Larry Gluckman’s five-year report show the increasing interest and use of the lake and the University rowing facilities by others than the intercollegiate crews.

As rowing has become a popular recreational activity, de-mands on the rowing facility and Lake Carnegie have intensi-fied. It is in the best interest of the University that the following programs be continued. However, not to the point that they begin to have an effect on the undergraduate intercollegiate pro-gram in terms of coaching energies, equipment usage and repair.

In 1983 the Princeton Graduate Rowing Club (PGRC) was created. They purchased a shell from the undergraduate pro-gram, they pay a part-time coach to oversee the program on an hourly basis, and they have a mutual use agreement with the Director specifying that in exchange for storage and upkeep of their shell the undergraduate program will have access to the shell during special hours.

In 1983 the Hun School returned to the lake. The school purchased two new fours and also have a mutual use agreement with the undergraduate program. They have their own coach.

In 1984 Carnegie Lake Rowing Association (CLRA) was created. It is a community-based group that is a recognized

United States Rowing Association program. They have received tax-exempt status. They both own and occasionally rent equip-ment. They pay a part-time coach on an hourly basis. We have a mutual use agreement with them. Their membership has grown to the point that a proposal exists and has been presented to the University proposing an addition to the tank for boat storage and training area. CLRA would underwrite the entire cost of the addition.

In 1985 the fall intramural rowing program was created in coordination with the intramural office and the director. Part-time coaches were paid and a minimal fee was charged for equipment repair. Over 100 students from the clubs, colleges, and graduate school were involved in the program for six weeks. Nearly seventy percent were first time rowers. The students used the barge in the same fashion as the fresh men. As a result the barge received a double dose of abuse. However, now some 70 students know a little more about crew.

In 1986 Princeton High School started rowing, indepen-dently of CLRA. They paid a part-time coach and provided a modest rental for our equipment. Each of the above groups have access to the tanks; the fall groups also use the barge.


1985 Post Season

To keep the crew sharp for Henley, Coach Kilpatrick entered the Lightweight Varsity in the JV Heavyweight bracket for the IRA Regatta in Syracuse. On a typically rough day on Lake Onondaga, the Lightweights won their heat and took the next two days off while race of-ficials struggled with weather delays for the repechages to round out the entries for the Grand Final. In the final, the Lightweights finished first, with the Princeton JV Heavyweights placing second for a dominant Princeton showing in the event.

The Lightweights then traveled to England to con-tinue their Henley preparation, Kilpatrick entered the crew in two of the traditional Henley prep races, at Reading and Marlow. To maximize racing experience, the crews entered two events at each Regatta. On a cold rainy day at Marlow, the Lightweights won both the Senior ‘A’ event at 1600 meters and the Elite Sprint event at 500 meters. At Reading, racing at an 1100 meter distance, the Light-weights won the collegiate event and finished second in the Open Men’s race. Fully adjusted to England, the crew was now well prepared for Henley.

The Lightweights were entered in the extremely competitive Ladies Plate contest at Henley, the second level event for eights after the signature Grand Chal-lenge race. The crew’s first heat was anticlimactic, as a German entry from Hanover false started twice and was disqualified, leading to a “row over”. In the second heat, the Lightweights made the mistake of underestimating a feisty University of Bristol crew, scrambling to win by a quarter length. After that wake-up call, Princeton entered the Quarterfinal ready to race against the Temple Varsity Heavyweights, a dominating winner at the 1985 Dad Vail Regatta. In a solid race, the Lightweights led throughout, winning by a full length. In the Semi-Final on Sunday morning, Princeton faced a stiff challenge, an elite heavyweight Leander crew. The Lightweights gave the Cerise Hippopotami of Leander all they could handle, battling to even through the mid-point of the race and, after dropping back in the third quarter of the race, closing with a furious sprint. Leander was able to hold on to a 4 seat victory, and went on to win the Ladies Plate Final over Garda Siochana of Ireland.


1985 WOMEN’S CREWS - 1

WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP

EIGHTHead of the Schuylkill Regatta

Thomas Eakins Trophy1975 Cup

1984 Point TrophyEisenberg Cup

S.Morrison, K.Helde, L.Kunkemueller, L.Carr, L.Heppes, B.Jones, L.Cornelio, C.Jordan (Coach)Missing: S.Horn, R.Conner

VARSITYUNDEFEATED

Eastern Sprints Champions

4th at Nationals

Willing TrophyL.Hodder, K.Kuhlthau, J.Marron (Co-Capt.), J.Budgell, K.Marsh, M.Wheeler, M.Hoblitzell (Co-Capt.), S.Pelmas, C.Mehaffey (Stroke), S.Morrison (Cox)

SECOND VARSITY2nd Place Eastern Sprints — JV

National Champions

Dolly Callow CupR.Buchanan (Stroke), L.Kunkemueller, L.Carr, N.Dimich, R.Conner, M.Kingsley, A.Touborg, T.Yanowitz, G.Durso (Cox)


1985 WOMEN’S CREWS - 2


3rd Place Eastern SprintsP.Davis, B.Jones, A.Torney, J.Lane, D.Laird (Cox)

FIRST NOVICES—Class of 1988

A. Ruh, K.Smyte, P. Roberts, L. Jackson, L. Cornelio, L.Heppes, S.Horn, K.Helde, S.A.Randell (Cox)

SECOND NOVICES—Class of 1988



VARSITY(seat racing)

G.Clemens ’86, E.Corcoran ’86, C.Pompa ’86, B.Sheehan ’87, M.Demko ’86, D.Morehead ’87, P.Jones ’88, J.A.Prall ’86, J.Dougherty ’86 (Cox)

“Giving what it takes to win”

George Clemens ’86 and Evan Corcoran ’86

I.R.A. CHAMPION

VARSITY FOUR WITH COXSWAIN

Eric Will TrophyCoach L.Gluckman, A.Zecha’87 (Cox), V.Kennedy ’88 (Bow), C.Pompa ’86, S.Spear ’86, D.Morehead ’87


Heavyweight CrewThe varsity heavyweight crew Team started the

1985-86 season with a trip to the West Coast for the San Diego Crew Classic. The squad made the finals and ultimately finished sixth.

Early in the regular season, the team lost to Navy and Penn, both of whom have fast crews. The squad then had an excellent race against Harvard on Lake Carnegie in which they lost by a mere three seconds. The following week, the rowers traveled to Ithaca, NY and beat Cornell by just under three seconds in another spectacular race.

At the Eastern Sprints, the team’s qualifier race did not go as well as hoped, and the squad did not place well enough to continue to the finals. The team, how-ever, stands a good chance of doing well at the IRA Regatta in Syracuse in June.

The major characteristic of this year’s squad was its depth. The varsity boat will graduate four seniors: bow George Clements, Evan Corcoran, Mike Demko, and cox Joe Dougherty. With the returning strength of sophomores Vern Kennedy and Phil Jones and ju-niors Bill Sheehan, Dan Morehead, and stroke Martin Trautschold, however, next year’s squad should prove to be even more successful.

Lightweight CrewThe year 1986 was one of unprecedented suc-

cess for the Varsity Lightweight Crew. It brought the first ever sweep of the Jope Cup at the Eastern Sprints with victories in the 1V, 2V, and 1F events. The Tigers brought the Jope, symbolic of overall Lightweight supremacy, back to Princeton for the fourth consecutive year. 1986 also brought the first back-to-back wins for the Varsity in the Wright Cup at Sprints and the fourth consecutive Goldthwait Cup for winning the HYP’s. The 3V also stroked its way to an undefeated Sprints-winning season, as did the Class of 1989 Freshman boat (coached by former captain Andy Card) which was awarded the 1921 Trophy in recognition of its perfect season.

The Lightweight’s strong performance was keyed by several newcomers. Three sophomores, Tim Wray, Mike Atalay, and Jim Moses, found their way into the varsity while Mike Zimmer, Glenn Rollins, and Carl Franzon made contributions to the 2V.

The Tigers opened their season with a strong win over Navy at Annapolis, but faltered in their second contest, a close one to Rutgers, losing by .01 seconds.

The Tigers quickly rebounded with victories over Penn, Harvard, and Yale. The Lightweights were then able to win the Eastern Sprints by a length over Yale, easily defeating the third-place Rutgers crew. The varsity boat went on to win the inaugural Lightweight National Championship in Cincinnati. The strong season and postseason victories ensured the Lightweights of sum-mer racing at the Henley Royal Regatta in England.

The Lightweights will graduate nine seniors: co-captains Rob Hedlund and Jesse Smedley, Steve Barr, Brendan Shannon, John Scott, Ken Royer, Dave Har-rover, Rusty Reeves, and Mike Rossner. Coach Gary Kilpatrick’s philosophy of “Success breeds success” should pay big dividends in 1987. With seven oarsmen returning from this summer’s Henley trip, including varsity stroke Henry Huntington and five-man Andy Ballard, the Lightweights hope to continue their win-ning tradition.

Women’s CrewBetween the crowded shores of the Charles River,

the Princeton Women’s Crew Team surpassed early ex-pectations. Two crews secured starting positions for the following year in the Championship Women’s Eight by placing 6th and 15th. This success continued with wins and good showings at the Head of the Schuylkill, the Princeton Chase Race and the Frostbite Regatta.

A successful fall led to higher expectations for the spring season. The competitive squad, encouraged one another through endless leg pieces, tank sessions, weight circuits and hills, all with a common goal; preparation for the spring thaw.

While waiting for the Carnegie ice to melt, the crew voyaged to Tampa for training. The trip tested the team’s ability to deal with the elements – cold, wind, rain, and heat. This week prepared the team for the spring races, in which the Tigers faced a terrific tail-wind at the first race, snow at Cornell and heat at the Sprints.

The depth of the squad, and the determination of both coach and crew climaxed at the Eastern Sprints. Each crew qualified for their grand finals and garnered enough points to tie Yale for the Charles Willing Point Trophy. Although there were no golds for Princeton, the point trophy emphasized the exceptional depth, train-ing, and spirit that carried the team throughout the year. The team thanks Curtis and Dan for their support.

1986 BRIC-A-BRAC




FIRST VARSITYVictories: Logg Cup, Carnegie Cup

Coach L.Gluckman, Boatwright F.Bozarth, G.Clements ’86, E.Corcoran ’86, V.Kennedy ’88, B.Sheehan ’87, M.Demko ’86, D.Morehead ’87, P.Jones ’88, M.Trautschold ’87, J.Picoult ’87 (Mgr.), J.Dougherty ’86 (Cox)

SECOND VARSITYSprint and I.R.A.Finalists

Coach L.Gluckman, M.Gleason ’88, T.VanLeer ’86 (Capt.), G.Ritter ’86, P.Zembsch ’88, G.Barry ’87, J.Helmers ’87, A.Prall ’86, J.VanFossen ’87, S.Schwartz ’88 (Asst.Mgr.), J.Sabater ’87 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITYI.R.A. Four With Champ – Will

TrophyCoach L.Gluckman, J.Breazeale ’88, M.Gantz ’87, G.DiRusso ’87, W.Platt ’88, E.Grogan ’88, C.Pompa ’86, S.Spear ’86, M.Muendel ’86, A.Zecha ’86 (Cox)

FOURTH VARSITYE.A.R.C. 4’s Champion

Coach L.Gluckman, C.Sullivan ’86, C.Boyd ’87, T.Werner ’87, M.Myers ’88, S.Gray ’88, B.Chung ’87 (Cox)


1986 HEAVYWEIGHT FRESHMEN

FIRST BOAT—Class of 1989

P.Caminiti, D.King, J.Morrissey, D.Huntington, R.Cone, J.Hunt, M.Lyon, J.Parker, N.Bisno (Cox), Coach Ed Kloman

SECOND BOAT—Class of 1989

C.Hartnick, R.Smith, D.Gray,B.Leheny, D.Anderson, G.Barz, J.McCarter, K.Frierson, S.Yankauer (Cox), Coach Ed Kloman

COACH DAN ROOCK ’81

Novice Women’s Coach: 1986

Freshman Heavyweight Men’s Coach:

1987-89

Head Coach Women’s Crew: 1991-96

(Subsequently Head Coach of Cornell Men’s Crew)


1986 LIGHTWEIGHTS AT HENLEY

LIGHTWEIGHT VARSITY

Defeating Union Boat Club of Boston, Mass. which outweighted Princeton by about 40 lbs. a man.

1986 Post SeasonAfter its Eastern Sprints victory, the Lightweights

defended their 1985 title in the JV Heavyweight event at the IRA Regatta. Princeton faced a tough Wisconsin crew in its heat, and won by a seat after a furious sprint. The shocked Wisconsin heavies were forced to win in a repechage, while the Tigers enjoyed a day off. The final began as a replay of the heat, with Wisconsin and Brown holding a slight lead over Princeton entering the last 500 meters. Unfortunately, just as coxswain Jesse Smedley began to call for the sprint, the boat was badly waked by a launch heading back up the course. Unable to find its rhythm until the last 200 meters, the Lightweights took the bronze medal.

In 1986, the NCAA National Championship races in Cincinnati included Lightweight crews for the first time. Only four crews were entered: Princeton, second place Sprints finisher Yale, and two of the top Western crews, San Diego State and California Maritime. Facing Yale for the third time, Princeton handled them by a comfort-able 11 seconds, with the Western crews finishing even further off the pace.

Instead of returning to the Marlow and Reading Re-gattas in 1986, Coach Kilpatrick decided to take the crew to the Holland Beker International Regatta in Amsterdam. The event attracted top national team crews including

World Champion sculler Peter Michael Kolbe and eights from East Germany, the Soviet Union and China. In a lively trading market for shirts and pins, many of the oarsmen secured souvenirs from behind the Iron Curtain. Unlike in past years, where the need to make weight had ended at the Eastern Sprints, the crew was entered in the Open Men’s Lightweight event in the Holland Beker. Far from hoisting pints of Brakspear’s Bitter in Henley as in years past, the starving Lightweights had to weigh in immediately before their races. In two days of stiff head-winds and chop on the Bosbaan, the crew could finish no better than fourth against the international competition.

Happy to return to England, and able to eat at will, the crew settled in for Henley. In the first heat, they faced Union Boat Club of Boston. Giving up over 40 pounds per man, the lightweights beat Union by half a length in the third fastest heat of the day. In the Quarterfinals, the Lightweights faced a stiff challenge from the Garda Siochana, runners up in the 1985 Ladies Plate. The Tigers never found a good rhythm, and the strong Garda crew left the Tigers behind by open water. Once again, Henley had capped a very successful season.


AFTER THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Lightweight Varsity—Summer 1986 by Andrew S. Ballard ‘87

We crossed the finish line at Worcester 2.6 seconds ahead of Yale and 6.5 ahead of Rutgers. We cheered, talked with our Harvard and Yale counterparts, paddled through the bridge, and—we headed back towards the awards dock—in between drying off Brendan Shannon’86 (who had deboated in celebra-tion) and shout “LBDI! ’86,” coxswain Jesse Smedley ’86 turned up the microphone in the boat and said, “Gentlemen, welcome to the “wonderfiul world of summer rowing.” We had won, and with its victory came a long and memorable summer of rowing that, despite its trial, left a sweet and lingering taste in the mouths of its participants that will not likely fade for a long time to come.

It was thirty-two days after our win in Worcester and a shorter time after winning gold and bronze medals at the Cincin-nati Regatta (the first lightweight national championship) and the IRAs (where we rowed as JV heavyweights), respectively, that the thirteen of us-six seniors, two juniors, and five sopho-more, along with coach Gary Kilpatrick and boatwright Frank Bozarth, stood in Heathrow Airport, London, tired from the long flight but ecstatic just to be on English soil. Verne Ken-nedy ’88 was holding up well under the circumstances; Verne, a heavyweight, had flown from San Francisco the night before to join Mike Zimmer ’88, John Scott ’86, and Kendrick Royer ’86, in the four when Mike Jones ’87 developed mononucleosis and hepatitis.

Then we started to row, finally plying our oars in the Eng-lish water against English oarsmen, gliding past green pastures and ancient monasteries and churches. The eight (from stern to bow: co-captain Smedley, Henry Huntington ’87, Tim Wray ’88, Steve Barr ’86, Andy Ballard ‘87, Shannon, Mike Atalay ’88, Jim Moses ’88, and co-captain Rob Hedlund ’86) found their brand new Empacher on the banks of the Thames and rowed it, the day after arriving, nine miles upstream to Marlow for the Marlow Amateur Regatta, which, after the next day’s races and in memory of the rainy, cold weather the year before, was promptly renamed the Marlow Annual Disaster. High winds, jostling wakes, and coxswain Smedley’s unfamiliarity with the less-than-gentlemanly manner of his English counter parts led to the eight’s downfall, while the four took several grand tours of the curvy, windy course before finishing a length back of Impe rial College, the eventual winner.

The next week, the eight and the four went their separate ways, the eight traveling to Amsterdam to garner what Kilpat-rick called “international racing experience,” and the four journey ing to Reading (among other places) to race in the elite fours event at the Reading Township Regatta. The four also combined with a Yale senior four in a rare display of coopera-tion between the two schools to race a mixed eight in the Junior A event at Reading. Although the ill-fated combined eight was to he eli minated in the first round, the Princeton four (Zimmer, Kennedy, Royer, and Scott) won their event at Reading, knock-ing out the Yale four in the process.

The varsity eight, on the other hand, found themselves in tough racing in Amsterdam, finishing third to the West German and Danish national lightweight teams but downing the Belgian

and Dutch national squads. (The West Germans and Danes would later go on to win a silver and bronze medal respectively at the world championships.) The next day, the Tigers rowed a valiant race in the Senior ‘B’ event, (mostly European collegiate heavyweight crews) losing to the West German pre-elite squad in a hardfought race. The regatta was a fine experience for all involved, giving the squad a chance to see what racing on the international level is like (it’s very good), as well as to trade for some rather interesting rowing apparel. After all events were concluded, a trading frenzy began on the banks, with the European crews, including the Soviet national team, accosting the Tigers and offering to trade shirts, hats, coins, and anything else they could. No matter what else happened that weekend, the sight of the East German women’s coach wearing a Princ-eton Reunions Cap is one the team is not likely to forget soon.

And then came Henley. Bedecked in boaters, orange and black bowties, white pants, and powder blue medals that proc-laimed “Overseas Competitor,” the Tiger crews mingled with the British gentlefolk as they readied for their race. Saddled with possibly the toughest draw in the Ladies’ Challenge Plate, the eight was slated to go up against Union Boat Club of Boston in their first contest, and then, should they be successful, to meet the mighty Garda Siochana, the Irish police rowing club who had lost to Leander (the crew that knocked the lightweights out in the semi-finals in ’85) in the finals in 1985 and stood as the Odds-on favorite to take the Plate this year. The four had an equally tough draw, facing in the quarterfinals—should they make it that far-the University of London, a strong contender in the Visitors Cup.

Both crews were to lose in the quarterfinals—on the same day-but not before earning praise and respect from their Eng-lish hosts. In the eight’s race against Union, for example, the Tigers showed their mettle by coming back from open water down to sprint through the Bostonians and win in what was called “the most exciting race of the regatta,” while the four destroyed two opponents easily, gliding down the homestretch to call of “Well-rowed, Princeton!” before meeting UL. Garda Siochana, however, proved to be too big for the Tiger light-weights; and strong winds, a strong current, and multiple wakes eliminated any hope Princeton had had of pulling off an upset. Yet even their length-and-three-quarters loss to the Irish earned them the title of “Princeton’s gallant lightweights” in the next day’s Times of London. The University of London also proved equally as formidable a foe for the four, defeating the Tigers by over a length.

So the racing ended. The boats parted, the good times were stored like flowers pressed in a fusty old book, beautiful things to be brought out some time in the future or to be run across quite by accident, bringing a smile on a far-off, lonely day. The vans were loaded up and headed for the airport; embraces were exchanged with promises to write or visit. For the seniors, the last time to venture to foreign shores under the orange and black; for the others, the promises of Henley future to dangle before them as both a reward and an incentive to work as hard or harder in 1987. As the van crossed the bridge heading for London, one member looked off at the Henley course and thought, as doubt less Kipling would have, had he attended Old Nassau, that there was a corner of some foreign field, a drop in some foreign river, that was forever Princeton.


1986 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWSFIRST VARSITY

National ChampionsE.A.R.C. Champions



Joseph Wright CupC.Collins ’88 (Mgr.), R.Hedlund ’86, J.Moses ’88, M.Atalay’88,B.Shannon ’86, J.Smedley ’86 (Cox), A.Ballard ’87, S.Barr ’86, T.Wray ’88, H.Huntington ’87, Coach G.Kilpatrick

SECOND VARSITYCornell Trophy

S.Adler ’87, C.Franzon ’88, D.Harrover ’86, R.Reeves ’86, B.Ratcliff ’87 (Cox), J.Scott ’86, K.Royer ’86, M.Jones ’87, M.Zimmer ’88, Coach G.Kilpatrick

THIRD VARSITYR.Gregg ’88, J.Maffezoli ’88, J.Evans ’88, J.Evans ’88, S.Furie ’87 (Cox), G.Rollins ’88, T.Kingston ’87, J.Jordan ’88, D.Moore ’87

FRESHMEN—Class of 1989

UNDEFEATED SEASON

Victory at Eastern SprintsD.Blander, R.Kraybill, N.Desnoyers, K.White, M.Bremer, S.Blasdale, T.Hoffman, J.Mount, R.Scacheri (Cox)


PRINCETON IN HENLEY COMPETITIONYear Crew Challenge Cup Highest Level 1930 Lightweight 8 Thames Semi-Final1933 Lightweight 8 Thames Heats1934 Winthrop Rutherfurd ’28 Diamond Sculls Finalist1934 Heavyweight 8 Grand Semi-Final1948 Lightweight 8 Thames Winner1949 Lightweight 8 Thames Winner1949 Lightweight 8 (Cottage) Grand Semi-Final1951 Lightweight 8 Thames1952 Lightweight 8 Thames1953 Lightweight 8 Thames Semi-Final1954 Four w/o Cox (Ivy) Stewards Heats1956 Lightweight 8 Thames Winner1957 Lightweight 8 Thames Winner1959 Four w/o Cox (Cottage) Wyfold Heats1962 Seymour Cromwell ’56 Diamond Sculls Winner1973 Lightweight 8 Thames Winner 1981 Lightweight 8 Ladies Heats1981 Four w/o Cox Visitors Heats1982 Ladies Four w/Cox Invitational Finalist1983 Lightweight 8 Ladies Semi-Final1983 Four w/o Cox Wyfold Heats1984 Four w/o Cox Visitors Heats1984 Heavyweight 8 Ladies Semi-Final1985 Heavyweight 8 Grand Final1985 Lightweight 8 Ladies Semi-Final1985 Four w/Cox Prince Philip Semi-Final1985 Four w/o Cox Visitors 2d Round1986 Lightweight 8 Ladies Quarter1986 Four w/o Cox Visitors Quarter1987 Heavyweight Varsity 8 Ladies Heat1988 Heavyweight Varsity 8 “A” Ladies Heat1988 Lightweight Varsity 8 Ladies Heat1988 Four w/o Cox Visitors 2d Round1989 Heavyweight (Ivy) Ladies Heat1992 Heavyweight (Ivy) Ladies Heat1994 Lightweight 8 Thames Semi-Final1995 Heavyweight 8 Ladies Final1996 Heavyweight Varsity 8 “A” Ladies Heat1996 Heavyweight JV 8 “B” Ladies Heat1996 Heavyweight 8 Temple Heat1998 Heavyweight 8 Temple Semi-Final1999 Heavyweight/Lightweight Temple Semi-Final

“Strangers wonder why eight people go out in a rowing shell and torture themselves by running up and heaving their oars up and down a lake. Four years ago when we had our 50th Reunion here at Princeton most of our 1942 boat that won the Carnegie Cup came down to the lake to row one more time. We passed under the Washington Street Bridge and suddenly the boat started to swing. We had that old feeling again. The boat seemed to take off like an aeroplane. When you’re with a crew that is really swinging and everybody is together, it is a feeling you don’t get in anything else you do. It is one of the reasons people go out and row . . . . even fifty years later.During the last few years I’ve been to Henley several times. I’ve seen the Germans that started bring-ing racing shells with a very small person in the bow as coxswain, so they can steer more easily. Well, I think that is an absolutely crazy thing to do because I think the coxswain has great responsibilities over and above steering the boat. He’s the person who has got to see if somebody is getting a little bit tired and call him by name to get with it.In those days the main training a cox got was to get your weight down by Saturday’s race. I would stop eating about Thursday and stop drinking anything by about Friday noon. We would have the race on Saturday and after the race was over Saturday night I’d go out and drink a lot of rum and usually pass out by Sunday morning, then start it all over again next week.”

Cleveland E. Dodge, Jr. ’43 (Coxswain)


1986 WOMEN’S CREWS

VARSITY3d at Nationals

1984 Point TrophyEisenberg CupWilling Trophy

L.Kunkemueller, K.Kuhlthau, L.Heppes, L.Carr, S.Morrison (Cox), M.Wheeler, S.Horn, S.Pelmas, C.Mehaffey (Co-Capt.)

SECOND VARSITYJ.Shepard, J.Lane, R.Conner, L.A.Jackson, G.Durso (Cox), L.Cornelio, T.Yanowitz, A.Touborg, K.Helde


B.Jones, P.Roberts, L.Hofreuter (Cox), K.Smythe, A.Reynolds


OS BANDITOS DO RIO (BANDITS OF THE RIVER)

A few scullers there areA prepi at each end and in the middle for spiceAnd in the bucket a block of young graniteMake up this hearty crew which is ready for the heist

A tough race at the startAnd then a change for the bestA record for the booksAnd then winning all the rest

They practice like champsThey row the race the sameThe race is the challengeThey all can take aim

They have been called OS banditosThey can steal the showThis race is the challengeThey know how fast they can go

And so my young friendsYou ask me if I know these banditos do RioI’ll tell you my friend, I rowedWith the bandits not two days ago

They are fast and fitThey are swift and sharpAnd if given the chanceThey will, my friend, even steal your heart

Whether they win or notThey are a great bunchThey are a happy lotBecause they are OS banditos do Rio, sowatch out for your lunch -

COACH LARRY GLUCKMAN

1980-81 Freshman Crews1981-88 Heavyweight Varsity Crews

COACHESPrinceton Crew Report

1981-1986by Larry Gluckman, Director

Philosophy: Since September 1981 the goal of the pro-gram has been maximum participation with excellence.

Results 1982-1986: Since 1982 the lightweights have won the Eastern Sprints three times on the varsity level and three times each on the freshman and 2nd varsity level. They have won the Jope Cup for lightweight supremacy three of the last five years. They have represented Princeton three of the last four years at the Royal Henley Regatta. In 1985 the lightweights won the 2nd varsity heavyweight event of the IRA and in 1986 participated in and won the first Intercollegiate Lightweight National Championships.

Since 1982 the women have won the Eastern Sprints twice on the varsity level and finished in the medals at the Nationals several times. They have won nationals in the freshman and 2nd varsity categories. They also have won the team trophy twice in the last two years at the Easterns.

The heavyweights have won the IRA Varsity and Fresh-man eight oar events, won the Ten Eyck Trophy (team trophy), and beaten Harvard both in the Compton Cup and Eastern Sprints. In 1985 Princeton missed the National Championships by four tenths of a second, raced in the final of the Grand at Henley and finished in the top three at the Lucerne International Regatta.

In 1985 Princeton University possessed the most suc-cessful boathouse in the Country. There is excellence afloat on Lake Carnegie.

Participation: Participation is at an all-time high. Nearly twenty percent of the freshman class try rowing each fall. Of that group only 25-30 participants are recruited, roughly 8-10 per squad. Most of the freshmen row until Thanksgiving and earn physical education credit.

Natural attrition and facility limitations bring the fresh-man program to roughly 80-90 rowers in late fall and 50-70 in the spring. Coupled with nearly 100 varsity athletes (sophomore through senior) the program services 300 athletes daily in the fall and l60-170 each day in the spring.

Rowing is the largest year-round sport on campus and has the greatest athlete/coach/facility contact ratio of any sport on cam pus and possibly any extracurricular activity at Princeton. Rowing begins with classes in September and finishes with championships in May and June with post-season rowing in July in England, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.

The squads represent the typical population on campus, as a result of drawing 60-70% novice rowers off the hill. In 1986 the top student/athlete in the graduating class was Martin Muendel, who started rowing as a freshman. In addition, three of the four captains elected for 1986-87 season learned their rowing at Princeton. One might say that is the nature of college rowing. It is just for this reason that rowing at Princeton is so important and plays a unique role in the athletic experience of the typical Princeton student.

Larry Gluckman, May 1979


1987 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWS

FIRST VARSITYCarnegie Cup

Logg Cup3rd Eastern Sprints

Boatwright F.Bozarth, J.Picoult ’87 (Mgr.). V.Kennedy ’88, W.Platt ’88, P.Jones ’88, B.Sheehan ’87 (Capt.), A.Zecha ’86 (Cox), R.Cone ’89, D.Saxen ’87, D.Burden ’88, J.Parker ’89, Coach L.Gluckman

SECOND VARSITYP.Caminiti ’89, J.McCarter ’89, J.Morrissey ’89, M.Gantz ’87, J.Breazeale ’88, P.Zembsch ’88, G.DiRusso ’87, M.Trautschold ’87, J.Sabater ’87 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITY2nd Eastern Sprints

G.Barz ’89, J.Hunt ’89, C.Boyd ’87, D.Huntington ’89, S.Yankauer ’89 (Cox), G.Barry ’87, J.Helmers ’87, M.Gleason ’88, D.Morehead ’87 (Stroke)

FOURTH VARSITYR.Cohn-Lee ’90, T.Werner ’87, D.Anderson ’89, B.Petersik ’88, B.Chung ’87 (Cox), E.Grogan ’88, R.Smith ’88, M.Myers ’88, S.Gray ’88


Heavyweight CrewThe 1987 varsity heavyweight “crewbies” pro-

gressively built up their confidence this season to win the bronze medal at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges’ (EARC) Sprints.

The “Cinderella” performance at the Sprints not only surprised the EARC coaches who had seeded Princeton sixth, but also shocked Navy, Penn, and Harvard, who had defeated the Tigers during the regu-lar season. The junior varsity lived up to the league’s predictions finishing in sixth place, while the third var-sity impressively placed second. The freshmen placed seventh.

The varsity, junior varsity, and freshmen each posted a 3-3 regular season record while the third var-sity finished 4-2. The varsity defeated Cornell, Rutgers and Yale.

Despite their losses, the varsity heavies gained the confidence and the fine tuning necessary during the regular season to warrant their superb finish at the Sprints. It is the common strategy of most teams to use the regular racing season to prepare their teams for the all-important championship season. Head coach Larry Gluckman and his squad executed this strategy very well.

Gluckman made one important gamble after the Tigers’ narrow defeat at Penn which involved moving the seasoned Sheehan back to the port side to make room for the talented, but less experienced Cone on the starboard side. The short term detriments of the gamble were felt a week later in the heavies’ worst defeat of the season at the hands of Harvard by a margin of six sec-onds. But the Tigers were maturely looking ahead for the long term benefits of the switch which would not take effect until Sheehan could readjust to the port side, and Cone could get acclimated to the varsity boat. Each week after the switch the heavies improved signifi-cantly over the last, handily defeating Cornell after the Harvard race by fourteen seconds, and confidently edg-ing a strong Yale crew the next week by two seconds in the hardest fought contest of the season.

The gamble paid off lucratively at the Sprints as the Tigers avenged their losses to Harvard, Penn and Navy, only to be slighted by defending National Cham-pion Wisconsin, and surprise victor, Brown. “We had been progressing on a steep learning curve all season. After the great victory at Yale, the Squad realized the potential it had. We went into the Sprints with momen-tum, and the rest is history,” concluded captain Bill

Sheehan ’87.The varsity heavies were aided by the return of

elite oarsman Doug Burden ’88 from a year off, and the comeback of David Saxen ’87. Sophomore John Parker precociously filled the important shoes of the stroke seat. Captain Sheehan, juniors Phil Jones, Ward Platt, Vern Kennedy and sophomore Russell Cone earned the other seats. Alden Zecha ’86 manned the rudder.

Besides losing Sheehan, Saxen and Zecha to graduation, the heavies will also lose junior varsity seniors Martin Trautschold, Gred DiRusso, Matt Gantz and coxswain Juan Sabater, as well as third varsity members Dan Morehead, John Helmers, Jeff Barry, Chris Boyd, Bill Chung and Tom Werner.

As the heavyweights prepare to catch Brown and Wisconsin at the IRA championships, they exude a con-fidence reminiscent of the 1985 championship. Whether they win or come close to winning at the IRA’s, one thing remains apparent: this year’s heavyweight squad has revived the winning spirit at the boathouse.

Lightweight Crew “Too much, too little,” – Lightweight Coach Gary

Kilpatrick. It is one of the great ironies of crew that despite the months of training in preparation for “the season” – the only time of the year that really matters – that the season is only six weeks long and over in the proverbial blink of an eye.

“I don’t think we had a chance to show how fast we really were,” said junior seven-man Michael Atalay. “The season ended before we hit our peak.”

The lightweights were forced to row most or all of the 1987 season without three key oarsmen – two-year varsity stroke Henry Huntington, senior Mike Jones, and sophomore Jeff Mount – and thus spent much of the year trying to build and improve.

“We were really hurt by not having those people in there,” said Coach Gary Kilpatrick, “there’s no telling what we would have done if they’d been with us.”

That’s not to say the season was a washout; the Tigers managed to compile a 4-2 record through their season and at the EARC Sprints in Worcester captured their fifth consecutive Jope Cup, the overall lightweight point trophy.

At Sprints, the varsity boat (from stern to bow: sophomore coxswain Bob Scacheri, sophomore stroke Jeff Mount, Atalay, senior captain Andy Ballard, Hun-


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1987 LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

LIGHTWEIGHT FIRST VARSITY

2nd Place E.A.R.C.

Jope CupPlatt Trophy

Wood-Hammond CupY.Abosch ’88, G.Rollins ’88, M.Zimmer ’88, T.Wray ’88, B.Scacheri ’89, H.Huntington ’87, A.Ballard ’87, M.Atalay ’88, J.Mount ’89

LIGHTWEIGHT SECOND VARSITY

J.Sarnoff ’89, K.White ’90, J.Evans ’88, J.Jordan ’88, B.Ratcliff ’87, J.Moses ’88, T.Kingston ’87, S.Adler ’87, M.Bremer ’89

LIGHTWEIGHT FRESHMEN

— Class of 1990

Undefeated EARC Champions

1921 Crew TrophyL.Grainger, J.Forese, ?, D.Swanson, S.Blasdale, M.Hirschfeld, T.Green, M.Anderer (Stroke), W.Lafond (Cox)

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tington (having returned two weeks earlier), and juniors Tim Wray, Mike Zimmer, Glenn Rollins, and Yishaiya Abosch finished in second place, 1.9 seconds behind Yale, but avenged an earlier loss to Rutgers. A second place finish by the JV and an open water victory by the freshmen – capping off an undefeated season – enabled the Tigers to grab the Jope.

The year was a difficult one for the lightweights, who, coming off a national championship season, lost the second race of the year to Rutgers. The varsity boat (which until Sprints included junior Jim Moses) was re-vamped after the Rutgers loss and appeared to be moving well for H-Y-Ps when unrowable conditions at Cambridge negated any chance the Tigers might have had at a win.

Princeton was ranked third behind Yale and Rut-gers going into the Sprints, yet felt they could pull off an upset. However, very fast conditions at Worcester (all course records were broken) worked against the Ti-gers’ race plan of long, powerful strokes and Yale was able to hold off a furious last-minute Princeton charge to hold on for the win. As Huntington commented, “we executed our race plan very well; the only problem is we came in second.”

Other races at Worcester gave fans of the orange-and-black more to cheer about. The freshman victory capped off Coach Andy Card’s second consecutive undefeated season, while in the ‘Saturday Night Live’ finals of the night before, Princeton’s 3V – led by senior coxswain Simon Furie and Junior stroke James “Cruiser” Maffezzoli came from an early deficit to win by open water. At the National Championship on the Hudson in Albany, the varsity boat easily handled Har-vard and the best of the western U.S., but again finished in second place behind Yale.

Women’s CrewBehind a season affectionately dubbed “from hell”

and “dubious at best” lies a lot of hard work, some learn-ing and even fun. A successful showing at the Head of the Charles earned the Princeton women an eighth place finish in the Championship Women’s Eight event, and more importantly a guaranteed starting posi-tion for the 1987 regatta. For the second year in a row, the Princeton squad dominated the Head of the Schuylkill taking eighth in the Women’s Four event and entering four competitive eights, with one taking first place.

As February arrived and the boats set out on Lake

Review of the 1987 Crew Year (continued) Carnegie it became apparent that fourth year coach Curtis Jordan was going to have a difficult time separating the homogeneous squad into boats for the spring competi-tions.

The team had high hopes at the start of the season after victories against Rutgers and Columbia at all levels. Only a week later did a prepared squad from Brown show the Tiger boats what the competition would be like in the spring of 1987. After narrow losses in the varsity boats, the team began preparing for a season on the road.

Following a weekend in Boston where the varsity was beaten by a large Radcliffe squad and the JV was edged out by Cornell, line-ups changed and the first varsity eight traveled to California to race in the Red-wood Shores regatta. Tough competition and strong winds marred the Tiger’s showing. The women fell to Wisconsin and Washington but managed to dominate Stanford in their three dual races. Returning home, the eight had two days of rest before traveling to Yale to suffer yet another loss. By this time the Walkman batteries were running low.

“Radical” line-up changes were to bring new hope to the eager squad. After only one practice, the squad went on the road to conquer not only Dartmouth and Penn, but the measles. First place showings in the 1V, 2V, 1N, 2N and a first and second in the varsity fours event earned Princeton the Class of 1984 Points Trophy. More line-up changes and house parties did not stop the Tigers from dominating an improving U.N.H. squad on all levels with the exception of a narrow loss in the first varsity race.

Most seniors had never seen Lake Waramug and sun at the same time. This was to be the story for the 1987 sprints. Heat and strong competition held the Tigers to a silver medal in the varsity four race and a bronze in the first novice.

The season topped off with a banquet at the boat-house. The natural setting led to a ruckus affair which brought out the closet partiers amongst us. The team wishes to thank Curtis for all his patience and first year novice coach Willie Black for his fantastic work with the freshmen squad. Seniors Sarah Morrison and Giana Durso (co-captains), Lynn Heppes Barbi Jones, Laura Kunkemueller, Sherry Ryan, Anne Touborg, Margot Wheeler and Toby Yanowitz will be missed.

1987 BRIC-A-BRAC



FIRST VARSITY1984 Point Trophy

T.Yanowitz, L.Kunkemueller, S.Anderson, K.Aldrich, L.Hofreuter, K.Hoover, A.Touborg, M.Wheeler, S.Horn

SECOND VARSITY6 Wins — 3 Losses

A.Ruh, S.Ryan, B.Jones, C.Cullicott, S.Morrison, L.Heppes, A.Green, L.A.Jackson, K.Helde

FIRST FOUR2nd at Eastern Sprints

M.Fleming, N.Puttkammer, G.Durso, K.Smyte, L.Haaland

SECOND FOURA.Patten, J.Harris, K.Bisgeier, G.Gilman, A.Swinton


1987 CREWS

HEAVYWEIGHT FRESHMEN

—Class of 1990A.Fetter, J.Green, B.Fisher, M.Natkin, J.Kelliher, J.Stinnett, R.Garrett, J.Turchi, M.Wills, S.Alamuddin, D.Denker, R.Beams, D.Reno, J.Ehinger, A.Morrow, B.O’Malley, O.Evans, M.Weymar, T.DeLiere

1988 WOMEN’S CREW

National Champions(rowed as lightweight crew)

C.E.Hobbs ’89, M.Fleming ’89, L.J.Cornelio ’88, A.M.Ruh ’88, B.AByrne ’89, A.B.Patten ’90, E.A.Hofreuter ’89, K.A.Smyte ’88

1987 ALL SQUADS BANQUETSpecial Presentation to Stuyve Pell

First “Princeton Award” to Michael VespoliOn Saturday, February 28 the varsity crews sponsored the 5th

Annual All Squads Banquet. Nearly 190 persons attended, including all three squads, some recruits, several area alumni, President of the PURA Art Miller, who flew in from the West Coast for the dinner, the coaches’ wives, our speaker and university guests. Recognition was made of men and women who have represented the United States abroad this past year in rowing competition. Our seniors were recog-nized, thirty-five in total. There were two presentations.

The first was to Styvesant Pell ’53, who has contributed to the rowing program in many ways. Not only does he race for Princeton in the fall regattas; he has seen fit to provide the program with three club singles; he is a trustee of the PURA and a faithful finish line official for our home races. To recognize all of these contributions the coaches presented him with an 18x25-inch framed enlarged photograph of him racing at the Head of the Schuylkill in Philadelphia this past fall. His bow marker is number 1. Stuyve indicated that was because he was the

oldest in the race, but we know it’s also the place he normally finishes.Our second presentation was the newly-created Princ-

eton Award, to be conferred annually by the Princeton rowing coaches to an individual who has made a significant contribu-tion to the sport of rowing. The recipient will receive a rowing print entitled “The Gathering”, by Kit Raymond ’74, a former heavyweight rower and women’s crew coach at Princeton. The award was presented by Gary Kilpatrick, Lightweight Varsity Coach, to Michael Vespoli, founder of Vespoli USA, the largest shell-builder in the country. Mr. Vespoli was a college oarsman at Georgetown, where he won the Dad Vail; he was an Olympic finalist in 1972 and a World Champion in 1974; he coached on the high school, college, and elite levels, producing champion-ship crews; he was manager/boatwright on the 1984 Olympic Team; and he is currently producing entire fleets of racing and recreational shells.

Princeton Rowing NotesSpring 1987


1988 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWSFIRST VARSITY

Carnegie CupChilds Cup

Navy TrophyLogg Cup

Boatwright F.Bozarth, A.Morrow ’90, P.Jones ’88, P.Zembsch ’88, V.Kennedy ’88, S.Yankauer ’89 (Cox), W.Platt ’88, R.Cone ’89, D.Burden ’88 (Capt.), J.Parker ’89, Coach L.Gluckman

SECOND VARSITYM.Gleason ’88, J.Breazeale ’88, E.Grogan ’88, D.Huntington ’89, M.Natkin ’90, J.Hunt ’89, j.Morrissey ’89, J.Green ’90, J.Kelliher ’90 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITYR.Beams ’90, P.Caminiti ’89, J.Stinnett ’90, G.Barz’89, J.Meier ’89, D.Denker ’90 (Cox), M.Myers ’88, J.Ehinger ’90, R.Garrett ’90, J.McCarter ’89

FOURTH VARSITYR.Cohn-Lee ’90, R.Beams ’90, B.Petersik ’88, A.Thornton ’90, M.Myers ’88, S.Gray ’88


Heavyweight CrewIt was a very good year for the Princeton Men’s

Heavyweight Crew team. Coached by Larry Gluckman and captained by senior Doug Burden, the team achieved a record of 8-3 overall and 4-1 in the Ivy League.

This is not to say anyone was surprised by the Ti-gers’ performance. In fact, before the season began many expected great things from this Tiger squad. Before the season even began, Captain Burden had shown the world his ability by rowing in the men’s eight in the 1987 World Championships and capturing a gold medal.

The team swept the opener against Navy. This rep-resented the first time in ten years that the Tigers defeated Navy. They then went on to defeat four more teams – Rutgers, Penn, Columbia, and Villanova consecutively before falling to a tough Harvard team. Before the season was over, the men had also garnered victories over MIT, Cornell and Yale. The only other losses came against Washington and the Australian National Senior boat. In EARC sprints the team took fourth place.

Lightweight CrewBy any objective standard, the 1988 Lightweight

Crew team was notably successful. The JV and third Varsity boats both won Eastern Sprints and compiled undefeated regular season records. The first Freshman also won Sprints and rebounded from early season defeats to win HYPs in a convincing fashion. The second Freshman, though victorious at HYPs, fell to a determined Harvard boat at Sprints. The Varsity was undefeated during the regular season but came away from Sprints having taken second to Harvard. The varsity boat avenged this single loss of the season by defeating Harvard in Albany to win the Lightweight National Championship. Overall, Light-weights defeated 66 crews and lost to only five, coming away from Eastern Sprints with their sixth consecutive Jope Cup.

The Varsity boat was comprised of nine individuals who recognized the potential speed inherent in this year’s squad early in the season. They dedicated themselves to intense training. From the stern, the Varsity was comprised of junior Coxswain Bob Scacheri, senior Stroke and cap-tain Mike Atalay, sophomore Dax Swanson, senior Mi-chael Zimmer, senior Jim Moses, senior Tim Wray, junior Jeff Mount, junior Neil Desnoyers, and sophomore Mike Anderer. Their motivation and training paid off throughout the spring as the Varsity enhanced their wardrobes with the shirts of all their opponents.

Unhindered by the injuries that had marked the

previous year, the 1988 boat was determined to “make its presence known” in the EARC. To that end the Varsity worked diligently to eradicate stylistic problems that had slowed some previous Princeton boats. The 1988 boat won in all water – headwind, tailwind, flat water, or “victory at sea” conditions. The Tigers got down the course cleaner and faster than their opponents. Additionally, the Varsity acquired a new light shell and light oars in order to shave off pounds of equipment. Intentionally limiting the vic-tory margin in the early races, the Tigers arrived at HYPs relative unknowns. When the race was over they were no longer unknowns, having finished 2.3 seconds ahead of Harvard and almost 6 seconds ahead of Yale.

Unfortunately, the victories of the season were clouded by the Varsity’s single loss – in the finals of Eastern Sprints. The Tigers trailed a restructured Har-vard boat from the 500 meter mark and were unable to punch through. In crossing headwind conditions Harvard finished 2.6 seconds ahead of Princeton with Yale taking third. For the first time in the season the Tiger varsity came home topless. “At the level we race at, the top boats perform similar training and have similar equipment and coaching. When you get down to it, it becomes a mental question of who comes to race and who comes to row,” said Mike Zimmer. Jim Moses added, “It’s not clear that Harvard is a better boat, but that day they were tougher.”

Over the three weeks following Sprints, it became the obsession of the varsity boat to be the “tougher” boat the next time they faced Harvard, which would be at the National Championship in Albany. Using the JV heavyweight event at the IRAs as a warm-up for Albany, the crew steadily increased its speed. At the National Championship the crew trailed Harvard by a full length going into the final 500 meters. With the season on the line Princeton sprinted through their nemesis and avenged their only loss of the year, claiming the Lightweight Na-tional Championship.

The varsity eight and four more deserving oarsmen were rewarded with a trip to Henley. The crew did well in a warm up regatta at Marlow and won an exciting championship event in Amsterdam before losing in its opening heat at Henley. Despite the early exit at Henley, the 1988 Lightweight season was an astounding success and reaffirmed that the Princeton Lightweights were the fastest boats in the land.


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1988 HEAVYWEIGHT FRESHMEN

E.A.R.C. SPRINTS CHAMPIONS

—Class of 1991

Kenneth F. Burns TrophyE.Karplus, T.Iseman, S.Coleman, G.Muir, C.Wiseman, T.Wright, R.Langenhagen, J.Caminiti, J.Picoult (Cox)

FRESHMEN WINNING STYLE

FRESHMEN SQUAD

—Class of 1991

1921 Crew TrophyE.Karplus, G.Muir, D.McGranahan, T.Wright, T.Iseman, C.Wiseman, J.Caminiti, W.Beck, J.Picoult, J.Ritter, S.Coleman, C.Boyd, P.Byrd, R.Langenhagen, K.Lee, N.Miller, D.Koehler, D.Thomas, F.Sporer, D.Roock (Coach)



FIRST VARSITY National Champions



Boatwright F.Bozarth, M.Anderer ’90, N.Desnoyers ’89, J.Mount ’89, T.Wray ’88, R.Scacheri ’89, J.Moses ’88, M.Zimmer ’88, D.Swanson ’90, M.Atalay ’88, Coach G.Kilpatrick

SECOND VARSITYUndefeated E.A.R.C. Champions

Cornell TrophyJ.Jordan ’88, C.Franzon ’88, J.Harris ’90, J.Evans ’88, W.LaFond ’89, M.Hirschfeld ’90, Y.Abosch ’88, G.Rollins ’88, J.Sarnoff ’89

THIRD VARSITYUndefeated E.A.R.C. Champions

J.Evans ’88, T.Hoffman ’89, C.Collins ’88, D.Blander ’89, D.Covin ’91, T.Milbank ’90, M.Bremer ’89, J.Forese ’90, J.Maffezolli ’88


1988 LIGHTWEIGHT CELEBRATIONS

VICTORY TOSSVarsity lightweight coxswain Bob Scacheri ’89 takes a plunge in the Hudson River in celebration of Princeton’s victory at the national Championship in Albany with the assistance of N. Desnoyers ’89, M.Atalay ’88, D.Swanson ’90, and J.Mount ’89.Photo by Schenectady Gazette.

ACTION AT HENLEY

M.Anderer ’90, N.Desnoyers ’89, J.Mount ’89, T.Wray ’88, J.Moses ’88, M.Zimmer ’88, D.Swanson ’90, M.Atalay ’88, R.Scacheri ’89 (Cox)

UNIFORMED AT HENLEY

R.Scacheri ’89 (Cox), M.Atalay ’88 (Capt.), D.Swanson ’90, M.Zimmer ’88, J.Moses ’88, T.Wray ’88, J.Mount ’89, N.Desnoyers ’89, M.Anderer ’90, Coach G. Kilpatrick


ENTIRE LIGHTWEIGHT

TEAMCelebrates Clean Sweep of HYPs (1V through 2F) by singing Old

Nassau

1988 LIGHTWEIGHT VICTORY

Joe MurtaughHead Coach, Men’s Lightweight Crew

Joe Murtaugh has been the head coach of the Tiger varsity lightweights since 1988, with a record of 67-11. In addition to his coaching duties, he serves as the administrator for the Princeton crew program.

Murtaugh had led Princeton to four national lightweight championships (’89, ’94, ’96, ’98) and three Eastern sprints titles (’96, ’98, ’99). In 1998 and 1999 his first, second and third varsity crews had perfect regular seasons with EARC sprints championships.

Murtaugh is a 1983 graduate of the University of Virginia, where he coached women’s crew for four years prior to his arrival at Princeton.

Since 1997 Murtaugh has coached the U.S. national lightweight eight. In 2000 he coached the U.S. team to a gold medal in Zagreb, Croatia. In 1999 he coached the lightweight eight to a gold medal at the World Championships in St. Catharines, Ont. — the first victory in that event for the U.S. in 25 years. In 1998 Murtaugh’s lightweight eight won the silver medal at the World Championships in Cologne, Germany.


“Coaching is fun. Coaching is teaching, like English. I’m teaching a hobby – a hobby for the rowers, a great job for me. I have the best of both worlds, working with a group of extremely motivated students. Crew is the ul-timate team sport. The rowers enjoy testing themselves and each other and being part of a team. It all starts with attitude. I try to establish a mission statement whenever I coach. Princeton had great success with lightweight row-ing in the 70s and 80s. We want to continue that heritage. Therefore, performance is a priority – to do well. We have a talented group of athletes and the facilities to do well.In a larger sense there are secondary goals. Rowing is in a lot of ways a metaphor for things that serve people well when they get out of the university and go on in life. Teamwork, trying to do your best, striving under adverse conditions, and most importantly, hoping to achieve mu-tual goals as a team. A football quarterback can have a great day and the team can still lose. In this sport no individual can have a great day if the team doesn’t do well. The team wins or loses together and I think that forms a bond amongst the athletes on the team and the coaches that work with them that is different in other sports.”

“PURA has set an extraordinary heritage for our crews . . . . from convincing Andrew Carnegie to spend the money to build a gorgeous lake that is still the best place to row in the country if not the world, to the Class of 1887 Boat-house, and every stick of equipment inside the Boathouse. It is all paid for by our friends and in a very tangible way, the PURA is Princeton crew. We coaches make it clear to the athletes that we couldn’t survive without their support. And, when these students graduate, they become PURA and part of that tradition. I look at a lot of other sports and other rowing teams. They have separate Friends groups — lightweights, heavyweights, women, each with a separate Friends group. PURA decided right from the start that they would support all Princeton rowing. PURA support has been equal and I think this tradition is just outstanding. The current undergrads feel and benefit from it. It has a lot to do with the recent success of our past and present teams.”

“Rowing started as a Spring sport, with people often doing other sports, or nothing, in the Fall. Sometime

in the mid-60s crew switched to being what it is now, a three-season sport. Row in the Fall; do Winter training on the erg or rowing tanks; and have the main competition in the Spring. Rowing is an incredibly demanding sport. But, I think some of the horror stories you hear are myth. We don’t get people up at 4AM or train 7 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our rowers train for an hour and a half to two hours a day, every day that school is in session. That represents a significant commitment in the 90s when specialization is the watchword.”

“Somewhere around 80% of a 2000 meter rowing race is aerobic, depending upon the cardiovascular system. Approximately 20% is anaerobic or the muscular system. Our training fits that model. About 80% is steady state or long slow distance rowing, relatively easy, when we work on technique and build up the body’s ability to handle a race. As the racing season approaches, we shift from longer lower intensity to shorter higher intensity. This allows the rower to build up the aerobic base and peak both systems so that ideally the rowers can make the boat move as fast as possible for the championship race – either Eastern Sprints or National Championships.”

“I learned more about myself rowing with friends in col-lege than I did in the classroom. Crew taught me more about general life skills, how to be a better person, how to be responsible, how to hold myself accountable for my actions and my performance. These are skills that anybody that gets involved in rowing in a significant way feels. Personally, I feel I am the luckiest guy in the world. I am able to do something I love to do with a highly motivated group and with excellent equipment and facili-ties. Every morning I’m excited about coming to work. I wouldn’t trade my job, particularly working at Princeton, for anything else in the world.”

Joe Murtaugh on Coaching



LIGHTWEIGHT VARSITY

National Champions

1984 Point TrophyLiz Hofreuter ’89 (Cox)Ashlee Patten ’90 Carolyn Hobbs ’88 Laura Marion ’89 Lisa Cornelio ’88Karen Smyte ’88 Missy Fleming ’89Barbara Byrne ’89Anne Ruh ’88Curtis Jordan (Coach)

FIRST NOVICE —Class of 1991

Eastern Sprints Champions

1921 Crew Trophy1: Stephanie Blackburn2: Bonnie Hagerman3: Joy Connolly4: Laura Matlack5: Simone Pulver

6: Diana Clifford7: Melissa Holcombe8: Katie Young


BAYARD W. READCLASS OF 1926

LIGHTWEIGHT CREW AWARD

Awarded annually to that member of the lightweight crew who, in the judgment of the

head coach, has made the most significant improvement during four years of participation

in the program.

1988 Timothy F. Wray ’881989 Jon D. Sarnoff ’891990 Michael E. Mitchell ’901991 David R. Covin ’911992 Jared J. Hardner ’921993 Richard T. Califano ’931994 Craig H. Boyce ’941995 Roderic M. Mathey ’951996 David M. Lawson ’961997 Ian D. Sachs ’971998 Simon G. Carcagno ’981999 William J. Golden ’992000 Sean T. Taylor ’00 Andrew L. Baine ’00

Women’s CrewThe Princeton University Women’s Crew team,

coached by Curtis Jordan and captained by seniors Anne Ruh and Lee Ann Jackson, had a successful sea-son, ending with a record of 7-3 overall and 4-0 in the Ivy League.

The season opened on a successful note as the team persevered through a cold rain to defeat Rutgers and Columbia in the morning and Mount Holyoke later that same afternoon.

One week later, the women were also successful on their own turf against Brown University. Although the first boat fell to the Bruins as Brown set a new re-cord for the conditions, the Tigers still managed to win the remaining four races that day.

The team also managed to split a pair of races one week later when the women defeated Cornell but fell to archrival powerhouse Radcliffe. Unfortunately, the women also lost to Yale in the next race of the season.

The team ended its season on a successful note, however, by defeating Dartmouth, Penn, and New Hampshire at home.

1988 BRIC-A-BRAC




VARSITYCarnegie Cup

D.Reno ’90, J.Hunt ’89, J.Green ’90, C.Wiseman ’91, A.Morrow ’90, A.Fetter ’90, R.Cone ’89, J.Parker ’89, S.Yankaner ’89 (Cox)

SECOND VARSITYE.Karplus ’91, J.Ehinger ’90, D.Huntington ’89, S.Coleman ’91, G.Muir ’91, R.Langenhagen ’91,P.Caminiti ’89, J.Caminiti ’91, D.Covin ’91 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITYD.Koehler ’91, J.Ritter ’91, J.Meier ’89, C.Boyd ’91, G.Barz ’89, P.Mackrell ’90, F.Sporer ’91, J.Morrissey ’89, G.Aquirre ’92 (Cox), D.Denker ’90 (Cox)


Heavyweight CrewThe 1988-89 season began on a particularly high

note as 10 oarsmen, 1 coxswain, and 1 coach received an opportunity to travel to Brisbane, Australia to com-pete in the World Boat Race in August. Crews from all over the globe were invited to participate in the regatta. The Princeton squad consisted of 6 seniors; John Park-er, Russell Cone, Joe Morrissey, Steve Yankauer and co-captains Paul Caminiti and David Huntington. John Greene was the sole representative of the class of 1990 in Brisbane while three oarsmen from the 1988 Eastern Sprints’ winning freshman crew, Joseph Caminiti, Rodd Langenhagen and Tom Wright made the trip. The boat met in Princeton a week early with new coach Gary Kilpatrick for an intense training week.

While in Australia, the Princeton Heavies com-peted in a series of 500 meter Bump races before the start of the Boat Race. Princeton emerged victorious on the final day of the Bump racing series, overtaking Keio University of Japan. The World Boat race was a 3.5 mile contest through rough conditions. After having some difficulty in the opening heat, Princeton finished an impressive second in the trial behind Cambridge. The crew received their silver medals in front of a large crowd at the World Expo, proud to be representative of both Princeton University and the United States.

The Australia trip provided a solid base on which to begin the fall season. The heavies raced effectively at the Head of the Connecticut and Head of the Schuylkill in eights. In the Head of the Charles, Princeton placed second in the Open Four and third in the Youth Four. The Fall season ended in a high note as the heavies won the Princeton Chase, outdistancing Yale, Cornell, and other Eastern schools.

The first boat traveled to California for the San Diego Crew Regatta, where they placed 5th in the final. While the Varsity competed on the East Coast, the Junior Varsity headed south to Georgia for the Augusta Invitational Regatta. The JV raced in the Varsity event and fared well, pulling 5th out of 11 crews and posting the second fastest time of the regatta.

Coming off extremely difficult regimen, the heav-ies began the spring season by defeating Navy in the varsity race on Lake Carnegie. The first boat ran into difficult times during the middle of the season, losing to both Penn and Harvard while beating Columbia and MIT. The Varsity came together for the final two races of the season, defeating both Cornell and Yale in a con-vincing manner. The JV also beat Cornell, while losing in a photo finish without a photo to Yale by a tenth of a

second.The freshmen raced strongly throughout the sea-

son, with commanding victories over Rutgers, Cornell, and Yale. The frosh also demonstrated excellent com-posure on the Harlem River to come from behind to de-feat Penn. The frosh entered Easterns ranked fifth, with only one blemish on the season record, a 5 second loss to Harvard. All heavyweight squads entered Worcester, home of the Eastern Sprints, with high expectations. But competitive heats prevented both varsity boats from qualifying for the finals. The Frosh raced well to place second in the grand Final, finishing a great season for freshman coach Dan Roock. The 1992 clan reward-ed Roock’s effort by voting him the annual Freshman Award at the Heavyweight Banquet for the greatest contributor to the freshman team. At the awards dinner, seniors Graydon Barz, John Meier, John Hunt, Steve Yankauer, John Pally, Dave Huntington, Russell Cone, and Paul Caminiti received varsity letters. Juniors Andrew Morrow, Andrew Fetter, John Ehinger, David Reno, and John Greene also received varsity letters. Sophomores Chris Wiseman, Joseph Caminiti, Rodd Langenhagen, and Thomas Wright completed the letter specifications. Co-captain Paul Caminiti received the Biddle Award given annually to the senior voted as exemplifying good sportsmanship and commitment to the Heavyweight team. Junior Andrew Morrow and sophomore Joe Caminiti were voted co-captains for the 1989-90 season.

Lightweight CrewThe 1988-89 lightweight rowing season will long

be remembered as a watershed in the history of the program. The departure of heavyweight rowing coach Larry Gluckman created a vacancy which Gary Kilpat-rick, the lightweight varsity coach since 1973, chose to fill. Killer’s move came at the end of six straight years of national dominance by the Princeton light-weight team and after the varsity boat had captured five national titles in eight years. The task of continuing the tradition of excellence which had come to define the lightweight crew was given to the 1987-88 lightweight freshman coach, Joe Murtaugh.

Joe brought to the program his experience as a coach at the highest levels of rowing and more signifi-cantly, a fresh, vibrant attitude which proved invaluable in what was from the beginning seen as a difficult sea-


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FIRST VARSITYNational Champions


Coach J.Murtaugh, M.Anderer ’90, M.Bremer ’89, A.Dollarhide ’91, J.Sarnoff ’89, R.Scacheri ’89, M.Hirschfeld ’90, K.Happe ’91, N.Desnoyers ’89, D.Swanson ’90

SECOND VARSITYCoach J.Murtaugh, J.Malcolmson ’91, D.Fisher ’91, T.Green ’90, T.Milbank ’90, W.LaFond ’89, B.Haarlow ’91, G.Lockwood ’91, T.Laster ’91, M.Camuso ’91

THIRD VARSITYCoach J.Murtaugh, S.Fair ’90, C.Logan ’91, M.Mitchell ’90, G.Sasser ’91, S.Eisen ’91, J.Harris ’90, J.Lippard ’91, N.Steinberg ’90


son. Half of the varsity program had graduated in 1988, and in the fall a substantial number of returnees opted to sit out the season. Moreover, there were only six seniors in the program (Ben Wilkes, Will LaFond, Neil Desnoyers, Mark Bremer, and co-captains Bob Scach-eri and Jon Sarnoff, three of whom were coxswains. Faced with coaching the smallest and youngest squad in years, Joe worked in the fall to create a strong technical base on which to construct a strong spring season. After dismal showings at the Head of the Connecticut and the Head of the Charles, Joe’s back to basics approach began to have its effect as Princeton crews managed to finish third and second at the Head of the Schuylkill and the Princeton Chase, respectively. The group had come a long way in seven short weeks.

Being in the unusual position of underdog gener-ated enormous enthusiasm and proved to be the domi-nant theme in a very productive winter. Despite unusu-ally frequent illnesses and injuries the crew emerged from the boathouse early in March physically prepared for the challenges ahead of them. The varsity boat (from stern to bow: senior coxswain Bob Scacheri, Ju-nior Dax Swanson, senior Neil Desnoyers, sophomore Darl Kappe, junior Mike Hirschfeld, senior Jon Sar-noff, sohomore Matt Camuso (later replaced by Adrian Dollarhide), senior Mark Bremeer, and junior Mike Anderer) opened its season a week earlier than the rest of the team with a race against the best of the South and the formidable French national team in Augusta, Georgia. It was in Augusta that the varsity eight first began to rise to the challenges of varsity level rowing as it managed to finish a strong second to the French in a ten boat event. Once back on Lake Carnegie the third varsity boat joined the first eight in defeating Navy, Cornell, Rutgers, and Penn. The young JV raced well but inexperience hurt the boat in races against Cornell and Penn to whom the Tigers lost.

Despite the strong racing of the early season, every Princeton crew entered the most important race of the regular season, HYPs, ranked third. The two freshman crews coached by Jim Moses, started the day off well with solid victories. All three varsity crews faltered, however, with the third and second varsity boats both coming in third. The first eight, riding the momentum of several weeks of significant improve-ment, barely missed pulling off a major upset in placing second by four tenths of a second behind Harvard.

The crew showed its maturity in the next two weeks as it diligently prepared for Eastern Sprints and

the defense of the Jope Cup, the trophy for the most dominant lightweight program in the East. Although both freshman boats notched victories for Old Nassau, the three varsity crews were unable to garner enough points to win the Jope. The third varsity finished third, the JV sixth, and the first varsity third. The varsity’s third place finish earned them an invitation to the National Championship in Albany where they hoped to continue the improvements made throughout the season.

After Sprints the seating in the boat was rear-ranged. The nine individuals remained the same, but former bowman Mike Anderer was moved to stroke. Once final exams were over, practice frequency and intensity increased. The new seating arrangement had its first test at the IRAs in Syracuse where the light-weight eight was rowing in the heavyweight JV event as a warm-up for the upcoming Lightweight National Championship. The new arrangement proved its effec-tiveness in an exciting final in which the lightweights finished third, less than 0.4 seconds out of first place.

The stage was set for the third and final show-down with Harvard and Yale at the National Champion-ship in Albany, where the champions of the western U.S. would also be racing. Rains had been heavy and conditions were fast for the seven boat final. Coxswain Bob Scacheri and stroke Mike Anderer quickly realized that it would be a short race and adjusted the stroke count up accordingly. Their gamble paid off as Princ-eton streaked to a 0.2 second photo finish victory over Yale and Harvard.

Thus was completed a season of continuous and remarkable improvement. From a disappointing Fall season in which there were only three returning var-sity oarsmen through a regular season of near-misses against Harvard and Yale, the crew maintained its focus and its dedication to achieving a National Champion-ship. The tremendous coaching job of Joe Murtaugh as well as the maturity and talent this crew demonstrated all year long enabled them to accomplish their goal of repeating as National Champions, making it Princeton’s third championship in four years and sixth in nine years.

Women’s CrewThe 1989 Women’s Crew season found Princeton

fielding not only their largest team ever but also the fastest Varsity Eight in Princeton’s history. Not since


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1989 FRESHMEN CREWS — Class of 1992


1921 Crew TrophyStewards Cup

Cox: P.M.Spiegler 4: E.W.Morriss8: E.Polubinski 3: A.K.Scott7: S.N.Panfil 2: S.M.Cornelissen6: L.S.T.Reed 1: R.Schader5: J.B.Hayden

HEAVYWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMENCox: K.M.Sessa 4: D.K.Curtis8: K.S.Daniels 3: B.W.Mann7: P.C.Hester 2: ?6: J.P.Constantine 1: E.M.W.Caspersen5: M.L.Agnew


Undefeated EARC ChampsR.E.Whisnant, J.S.Scicchitano, L.Feiner, J.A.Hickey, R.M.Raiser, S.M.Hope, C.A.Sovka, J.J.Hardner (Stroke), P.M.Giftos (Cox)

LIGHTWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMEN

Photos — Sport Graphics


1985 had the Princeton team posed such a threat to the competition.

Fall achievements were indications of their upcoming success, as Princeton won all the collegiate women’s events at the Head of the Schuylkill, as well as overpowering opposing fours at Princeton’s Chase Race. The success was headed by coach Bill Leavitt, who was leading the team while Head Coach Curtis Jordan was coaching the Men’s Varsity Four in Seoul for the 1988 Summer Olympics.

By spring, Jordan had found a stellar varsity com-bination sparked by the undefeated success of the 1988 novice season, coached by Willie Black. Under the leadership of senior co-captains Sidney Anderson and Liz Hofreuter, the varsity eight was comprised of senior Nancy Puttkammer, junior Sheila Doppelhammer, and sophomores Katie Young, Simone Pulver, Bonnie Hagerman, Melissa Holcombe, and Laura Matlack.

The combinations for the JV and 3V were a bit more difficult to form with the depth of strength and skill throughout the squad. The personnel changed with each race. Nonetheless, the team swept their first races against Mt. Holyyoke and Rutgers. On the line against Brown, in front of an enthusiastic Parent’s Day crowd, the novice crews and the JV ran into stiff competition while the 3V and Varsity overpowered their opponents, breaking the spirit of the Sprints Champions from 1988.

On April 12, the Varsity and JV traveled to the Redwood Shores Rowing Classic in California. After strong victories over Berkeley and UCLA, the JV ad-vanced to the championship race, facing Brown. Finish-ing just a length behind the Bruins, the JV was awarded the first runner-up position.

The varsity found themselves paired against Uni-versity of Washington – the national champions for six of the past seven years. However, the Princeton eight made history, being the first crew to lead Washington by a length at the 1000 meter mark of the 2000 meter race. Unfortunately, the same afternoon they had their first taste of Radcliffe’s phenomenal speed, losing by four seconds. After beating Wisconsin the next day, the varsity also returned home with the bittersweet reward of runner-up. On the homefront, the 3V easily handled both Cornell and Radcliffe.

Amidst horrible hypothermia conditions, Princ-eton faced an always strong Yale team, finishing second on the novice and JV levels, winning the Varsity fours and returning the Carol B. Eisenberg Trophy to the Princeton boathouse. The next day on Yale’s course Radcliffe again beat Princeton by a four second margin while Princeton finished a length over Cornell.

Review of the 1989 Crew Year (continued) The Varsity crews finished their season with three sweeping victories over Penn, Dartmouth, and the University of New Hampshire. The finale however, was the performance by all seven boats at the Eastern Sprints. The second novice finished first in their Petite Final, while the first Novice finished third on their level. Qualifying for the Grand Final, the JV finished fourth in a close race with Cornell, Yale and Brown. The Varsity Fours repeated their amazing performance of 1988, by capturing both the gold and silver medals as well as adding a fourth place finish. In the Champi-onship Varsity race, Princeton faced Radcliffe for yet a third time, finishing 3.6 seconds behind the Crimson, but pulling a length’s lead over Cornell in an amazing 20 stroke finish to be awarded the silver medal.

The success of the squad is deeply indebted to the spirit of the senior class: Anderson, Hofreuter, Puttkam-mer, Missy Fleming, Laura Marion, Barbara Byrne, Cathy Cullicott, Kate Hoover, Kim Aldrich and Caro-lyn Hobbs, as well as the coaching and support of 1986 Novice Coach Dan Roock and 1987, ’88, ’89 coach Willie Black, both of whom will be moving on next year. Their enthusiasm will be missed greatly.

1989 BRIC-A-BRAC



FIRST VARSITY2d Eastern Sprints


S.Anderson, L.Matlack, S.Doppelhammer, N.Puttkammer, L.Hofreuter, M.Holcombe, B.Hagerman, S.Pulver, K.Young

FIRST VARSITY 8Cox: Liz Hofreuter 4: Nancy Puttkammer (Capt.)8: Katie Young 3: Sheila Doppelhammer7: Simone Pulver 2: Laura Matlack6: Bonnie Hagerman 1: Sidney Anderson5: Melissa Holcombe (Capt.)

SECOND VARSITYA.Patten, B.Byrne, S.Blackburn, D.Clifford, C.Roach, M.Fleming, A.Webster, L.Stewart, L.Marion

NOVICES—Class of 1992

Back Row: Christine Williams, Hilary Hedges, Monica Butler, Sophie Glen, Jessica Bull, Spraque CalleryFront Row: Beth Rutgers (Cox), Kirsten Hildeb-rand, Tally Parham

Sport Graphics


1989 WOMEN’S FOURS

VARSITY FOURSL.Wickenden, I.Eagly, S.Chu (Cox), R.Deaton, J.Connolly

VARSITY FOURSC.Hobbs, L.Haaland, K.Bisgeier (Cox), R.Paoletti, I.Jones

VARSITY FOURSV.Callery, C.Cullicott, M.Daughan (Cox), K.Aldridge, K.Hoover


STUYVESANT B. PELL ’53SCULLING TROPHY

for

Heavyweight Men, Lightweight Men and Women (Fall Event)

Heavyweight Men1989 Andrew Morrow1990 Laird Reed1991 Stephen Robinson1992 Stephen Robinson1993 Colin Farmer1994 Liad Meidar1995 Sean Kammann1996 Sean Kammann1997 Sean Kammann1998 Morgan Crooks1999 (Not awarded)

Women1990 Laura Matlack1991 Annika Pohlmann1992 Danika Harris1993 Julie Thorp1994 Heather Harnly1995 Mitch Clark19961997 1998 1999 (Not awarded)

Lightweight Men1990 Charles Mason1991 Edmund Polubinski1992 John Kovac1993 David DiGilio1994 Alfredo Cabeza1995 Greg Hughes19961997 1998 Dan Kaminstein1999 (Not awarded)

PELL SCULLING TROPHY

STUYVESANT B. PELL ’53By Ted Polubinski ’92

In the early spring of his junior year, Stuyvesant B. Pell ’53 learned that he had to stop doing what he most loved; rowing on Princeton’s Varsity Lightweight Crew. Told by his father and his advisor that the sport consumed too much of his time and energy and that he “was not going to get a degree in rowing,” he left the team to focus on academics. While Pell’s academic performance improved during his last year and a half at Princeton, a more unusual result of his separation from the sport may be the intensity with which he has returned to it later in life.

At 69, Stuyve Pell is currently one of the preeminent masters single scullers in the country if not the world. He has placed in the top three in every race he has entered since 1991 and has won all but a handful. In winning his division at the Head of the Charles, Canadian Henley, and the Masters Championship Regatta, he has beaten men who had been Olympians and National Champions in earlier years.

Partly by his rowing out of the Princeton boathouse, partly through his generosity and interest, Pell has retained a close connection with Princeton crew. “I look upon the 160 or 170 rowers in the boathouse as my children for whom I don’t have to pay tuition,” he says. Indeed, Joe Murtaugh describes Pell as a “sort of guru” for his team. Although Pell has not paid tuition for any of the University rowers, he and Pat have given the boathouse its fleet of sculling boats and a pair/double, and he is Secretary of the PURA.

In speaking with Pell, the last thing that comes to mind is his retirement from rowing. With his thinning red hair, quick step and youthful grin, he is the spitting image of an

‘Stuyve’ Pell in his single

athletic forty year old. Only in his face, weathered by years on the water, does one see evidence of his age, which would lead one to ask if Pell has plans to retire from rowing. When I ask, Pell responds with a definite no and explains that he has friends who are rowing in their eighties. Indeed, he has done the arithmetic to determine his age handicap at one hundred years old at the Head of the Charles. He muses: “If I can keep from slowing down more than five minutes over the next thirty years...”


What Crew Means“I remember sitting on the bridge at Worcester watching the SPRINTS varsity heavyweight race, after a disappoint-ing loss of my freshman race. The varsity was about a length behind the lead boat. But I knew that they have this infamous move they call ‘a 20 stroke’, when they kick in everything they’ve got. You could just see it, this new gear, this new speed that no other boat on the water could even come close to matching. They turned what looked like a race they might lose, a tough race, into a crushing defeat for all the other boats. It was one of the great moments as a spectator to watch rowing.That was something that brought me back to see that if I could achieve that level, I could really enjoy crew. I made the varsity lightweight boat. We won Sprints and I was hooked. I spent the next 4 to 5 years after graduation actually going to world championships representing the US and was very lucky. I feel very fortunate coming out of a program as strong as Princeton’s. I credit the level of coaching we received. I spent five years travelling around the world competing and meeting some of the best rowing athletes on this planet.I think it all started with Gary Kilpatrick. He was a coach who instilled a few very simple rules in the crew. It wasn’t a pronouncement, it was an attitude that was the core of what this team was doing and how it was winning races. It was a simple love of racing. A lot of oarsmen talk about the hard work and training during those cold winter months. And for us it was always that. That is an integral part as any winning crew will tell you. But, it is also because you love to get to race day, any time you get on the water and race a crew. I wouldn’t mind racing the Olympic heavyweight crew as a freshman, just for the chance to race and maybe come up with something big.Rowing is a very simple sport. It’s a straight line on your ass going backwards. It doesn’t get any easier than that. It is that sort of purity of the sport, the simplicity of who can get from one point to the other the fastest that makes it so much fun. It’s all encompassing. Part of the lesson that you learn from crew is the joy you get from the sacrifices you make. It is an all-or-nothing sport. The crews that win usually are the ones that make the greater sacrifice.It all started at Princeton. We have one of the greatest facilities in the US, if not in the world. This is a lake built just for oarsmen. We have full-time coaches. We have top level equipment. We attract great rowers. We are extraor-dinarily lucky.”

Tim Wray ’88

“The first day we had an informational meeting, got my view of what rowing was like, supposed to be really gru-eling. I felt completely sick at my stomach and nervous. 60-70 girls down at the Boathouse. I was a sophomore. The year before three of my roommates had rowed and got cut. It was scary.I remember my first race ever, going out as a novice. I was wearing my uniform and it had the P on the back. I remember thinking, I’ll never forget this. I’m representing Princeton University and I can’t lose. I have to do my best and I remember sort of being in awe of the whole idea.Crew fully reached all my expectations, went way beyond. From the day I got on the water I wanted to make the team really badly, and was pretty proud when I was selected for a boat. I found a group I wanted to be a part of. Maybe it is the type of person crew attracts. We had a lot of fun on the water, and a lot of fun off the water. I felt that we shared off the water interests as well; we liked to do the same things. I have always gotten along with rowers pretty much wherever I’ve gone. Maybe it is some deeper philosophy we all share that I can’t explain.When I look back at my Princeton rowing experience, and my subsequent National Team experience, there are a couple of important milestones. One thing that made me want to row more was after my junior year in 1988 we put together some of the smaller women on a team and made an 8 to race as a lightweight boat at Princeton. There was no such category here at that time, but Radcliffe was always winning the National Championships. And, we were sitting there saying I bet we could beat them if we just put ourselves together. We did, and worked really hard, and beat them pretty easily. That was really fun and made me realize I might want to go further in crew.A second milestone was making the National Team. My first year on varsity I rowed in 4s and we definitely weren’t the priority boat. We had two 4s and every day we raced it came down to the last 20 strokes who would win. I think that was some of the most valuable training I’ve ever had in my entire life. It made me learn how to race, because every day we were at each other’s throats. You had to dig right down to the bottom and give everything you had to win. I managed to win all my races in the 4s that year, which gave me the confidence that probably helped me more than anything else in my life.”

Barbara Byrne ’89



VARSITYCarnegie CupNavy Trophy

Augusta InvitationalLogg Cup

R.Langenhagen ’91, D.Curtis ’92, S.Cornelissen ’92, T.Wright ’91, D.Denker ’90, S.Coleman ’91, A.K.Scott ’92, E.Karplus ’91, J.Caminiti ’91(Co-Capt.)

SECOND VARSITYA.Fetter ’90, R.Garbutt ’90, C.Wiseman ’91, A.Morrow ’90 (Co-Capt.), L.Reed ’92, W.Morriss ’92, J.Green ’90, T.Polubinski ’92, P.Spiegler ’92 (Cox)

“I rowed at St. Paul’s School and I rowed for four years at Princeton. I was successful at it because I had enough desire to keep my blade in the water and for no other reason. In due course I was elected captain of the crew. I went to Henley after my second year at college, and later rowed on the junior nation-al team. During these years I developed an extraordinary rela-tionship with my coaches. When I finished college I had a num-ber of choices, but I decided to make a career of crew coaching. It is fun because I am interacting with a group of enthusiastic young people. I have a part in helping them develop their skills and form their futures. I respected my coaches and now I have the opportunity to pass along my skills and my experiences to a new group. This is very satisfying.”

Andrew Morrow ’90


Heavyweight CrewThe heavyweight varsity crew will not soon forget

the 1989-90 year of rowing. The year was particularly remarkable for the contrast in performances of the boats over the course of the racing season. The heavyweights showed their potential for speed and victory early in the spring, but finished frustratingly slow at the Eastern Sprints and I.R.A.’s.

The team assembled in September to begin the fall rowing season with a spirit of optimism and endeavor, led by co-captains Joseph Caminiti and Andrew Morrow. The fall schedule was filled with daily workouts of technique drills and race pieces, punctuated by monthly ergometer tests and semi-regular regattas. The fall regattas provided the heavyweights with the opportunity to meet the com-petition and gain racing experience in a more relaxed and social atmosphere than would exist in the spring. Never-theless, the fall regattas provided some exciting racing and the Princeton heavyweights had much success. Any of the spectators who actually bothered to watch the racing at the Head of the Charles in Boston saw the heavyweight’s Youth Four and Varsity Four entries win medals. On Lake Carnegie the Tigers hosted the Princeton Chase, where the heavyweights won the Eights, Fours and Pairs races. The team also added to its fall racing schedule the Bausch and Lomb Invitational Regatta in Rochester, New York; this weekend was most notable for a violent lightning and hailstorm which threatened the terrified oarsmen during a practice and for the complimentary Ray-Bans which one lucky team member was able to bring home.

With the onset of winter the heavyweights moved indoors and began their tough winter training regimen. These months were filled with weights, ergometer rows, tank workouts and hills; the team looked forward to get-ting back on the water during its annual trip to Florida during intercession. In Florida, the form of our spring racing lineups began to appear. Through seven days of mostly double practices, the heavyweights seat raced and looked for fast combinations under a blistering sun with blistering hands. Everyone was exhausted upon their return for the spring semester, but felt proud about the quantity and quality of the rowing that had been achieved.

Back at Princeton, the team was blessed with warm weather that allowed the heavyweights to continue row-ing on the water. The varsity lineups did not solidify quickly so, despite the early start on the water, the two Varsity eights and the Varsity Four were finalized only in the week prior to the first race. This did not seem to be a handicap, however, as all three crews rowed competi-

tive races against Navy. The First Varsity boat won and the Second and Third Varsities lost in close races. These boats redeemed themselves quickly two weeks later dur-ing the Tigers’ sweep of Rutgers in the “New Jersey State Championships.”

Between these two scheduled races the First Varsity traveled to Georgia to row in the Augusta International Regatta. In retrospect, this was the high point of the season for the First Varsity. The boat qualified for the finals with a sluggish first-place in the heats; it found a significant amount of speed by the next day, however, and rowed out of last place to finish with an open water victory over Syracuse, Cornell and Wisconsin.

The momentum from these victories was threatened at mid-season with a loss to Pennsylvania. The next weekend, the First Varsity went to Washington, D.C. while the Second and Third Varsities went to Cambridge to try and regain some momentum against Harvard. The First Varsity had been invited to the first ever Henley-on-the-Potomac Regatta. This regatta was modeled after the English Henley and drew a large number of spectators down to the riverbanks. Unfortunately, the First Varsity did not deliver an inspiring performance and finished last in the four-boat finals as Harvard rowed to victory. The news from Cambridge was no better.

The second half of the racing season was frustrating, as repeated lineup changes did not produce any lasting increases in boat speed. None of the boats could produce a victory in the final race of the season before the regat-tas. Brown came down to enter the annual Princeton-Yale race for the first time and went away with a victory in the First Varsity race.

The Eastern Sprints and I.R.A.’s were disappointing to the team after such high expectations had developed during the year. Nevertheless, a solid core of sophomores and juniors are intent on returning next year and redeem-ing the frustrations of this year. They will be joined by a group of freshmen who proved their talent and dedica-tion by winning the Freshman Eights race at the I.R.A.’s to end another tremendous year for Princeton Freshman Crew. One would hope that such success could eventu-ally be translated into success on the Varsity level. The seniors leave Princeton with this hope and with many great memories from this year and the last three years. Drew Denker, Andrew Fetter, Bob Garbutt, John Green and Andrew Morrow wish the best to next year’s captain Eric Karplus and the entire Heavyweight Team.

Lightweight Crew


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S.R.Davis, D.L.Alderson, P.Austin, D.J.Martin, S.P.Reilly, J.P.C.Baker, T.Dann, J.P.Fritze (Stroke), T.W.Brennan (Cox)

SECOND FRESHMEN

LIGHTWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMEN

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The 1990 campaign of the Lightweight Varsity crew was characterized by success on all levels. On Carnegie Lake, all three varsity crews were undefeated. In away races, the Tigers did not fare as well. The Varsity crew, led by se-niors Dan Swanson and Co-Captains Mike Anderer and Mike Hirschfeld, opened its season at the Augusta Invitational Regatta in Georgia. After making quick work of their op-ponents in the qualifying heat, the Tigers fell to strong boats from Darmouth and Harvard. In consecutive weeks at home, the Varsity easily handled crews from Georgetown, Rutgers, Cornell, and Pennsylvania. The JV and third Varsity crews had similar results against their opponents on familiar waters.

In the last regular season race in Cambridge, all three Tiger boats faced crews from Harvard and Yale. The Third varsity led by seniors Todd Green, Mike Mitchell and Noah Steinberg, fell in a close race to Harvard. The JV extended its undefeated season, under the leadership of Jeff Harris and Tom Milbank, by besting both the Crimson and the Elis. The Varsity lost to Yale while avenging its earlier defeat by Harvard.

At the Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Massachusetts, the Tigers again had trouble on foreign waters. In the Third varsity race, the orange and black took the silver in a close race with Harvard. Harvard again captured the gold in the JV race leaving the silver for the Tigers. The Varsity sequestered the silver in its event finishing 1.5 seconds behind a strong boat from Yale. Despite the inability of the Tigers to bring home the gold, the crews captured the Jupe Cup recogniz-ing “overall supremacy in Lightweight rowing.” Coach Joe Murtaugh looks forward to the continued success of the program next year with help from this year’s undefeated Freshman crew.

Women’s CrewThe Women’s Crew enjoyed spectacular success in

1990, with the Varsity Eight going undefeated and capturing the National title. Although small in numbers, the team was deep in talent, which was reflected in the achievements of the squad throughout the 1989-1990 season.

The team began training in mid-September under the expertise of Head Coach Curtis Jordan. The fall racing sea-son kicked off in mid October as a Youth Four, Varsity Four, and Varsity Eight traveled to Cambridge to compete in the Head of the Charles regatta. In a wide field of competition, the Youth Four took first, the Varsity Four took sixth, and the Eight took fifth. The three mile race was repeated the following weekend at the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta in Philadelphia, where all boats finished in the top five.

The results from fall racing pointed to imminent suc-cess in the spring season. The squad went into winter indoor training determined to improve the strength, hone the tech-nique, and focus on the goals that would raise them to an

unbeatable level. After an Intersession all-squads training trip to Tampa, the ice on Lake Carnegie was broken and the team began its drive to be the best.

Under the leadership of co-captains Ashlee Patten and Sheila Doppelhammer, the season began in late March with a sweep of Mt. Holyoke and Rutgers. The JV lost to Brown the following weekend by less than a second, but turned things around in the next race to beat Radcliffe and Cornell by the same margin. The Varsity and JV crews then headed to San Francisco to compete against the best crews from the east and west in the Stanford Redwood Shores regatta. This was an elimination-style regatta, and both crews advanced to the finals, the JV earning the position with a .04 second margin win over Yale. Both crews triumphed over west coast teams to claim the championship title.

The crews returned to NJ to conclude the dual racing season with sweeps of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and UNH. The team was once more able to field a Varsity Four as a few members returned from injuries, and the entire squad anticipated an exciting Eastern Championships.

Under Assistant Coach Lori Dauphiny, the two Novice Eights picked up more and more speed throughout the sea-son. The first novice boat lost a few close races during the dual season, but entered Easterns determined to show their improvement. The preliminary heat for finals qualification was fast, and the boat came in a disappointing third, qualify-ing instead for the Petit Finals. These they easily won. The second novice boat, losing only one race to Radcliffe during the season, had a second place finish at Easterns.

The Varsity Four once more succumbed to injury, but the JV and Varsity entered the fray of competition strongly. On the JV level, there were at least four teams who were within a second of each other during the season. The cham-pionship race was dramatically exciting and Princeton came in an unsatisfying and unrepresentative fifth.

The undefeated Varsity crew of seniors Cecile Roach, Susannah Taylor, Lynn Haaland, and Sheila Dopelhammer, and juniors Katie Young, Simone Pulver, Bonnie Hagerman, Melissa Holcombe, and Laura Matlack captured the Eastern title before a huge crowd of family and friends. Although traditionally this Championship has signaled the end of a long season, the win provided them the monetary sponsor-ship to travel to Madison, Wisconsin in early June to race in collegiate Nationals. Substituting seniors Mary Daughan and Rebecca Paoletti for seniors Cecile Roach and Susannah Taylor, the Varsity crew raced the best teams in the nation to handily capture the National title and proudly perpetuate their dominance in the Women’s Crew arena.

1990 BRIC-A-BRAC




VARSITYJope Cup


3rd in NationalsM.Camuso ’91, S.Hope ’92, M.Hirschfeld ’90, J.Hardner ’92, K.Happe ’91, M.Raiser ’92, A.Dollarhide ’91, D.Swanson ’90, D.Covin ’91 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITYD.Fisher ’91, J.Harris ’90, T.Milbank ’90, J.Hardner ’92, G.Lockwood ’91, B.Haarlow ’91, T.Shearing ’92, J.Malcolmson ’91, G.Sasser ’91 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITY?, L.Feiner ’92, D.Clayton ’92, J.Hickey ’92, C.Sovka ’92, J.Kovac ’92, N.Steinberg, T.Green ’90, A.Kadambi ’92 (Cox)


E.A.R.C.ChampionC.Mason, J.McGlynn, A.Clayton, S.McMillan, S.Knox, E.Tellander, R.Morse, D.Miller, A.Flisser, Coach M. Zimmer ’88




JUNIOR VARSITYCox: Karen Bisgeier ’90 4: Virginia Callery ’908: Stephanie Blackburn ’90 3. Kirsten Hildebrand ’927. Laurence Steward ’90 2. Linda Wickenden ’906. Diana Clifford ’91 1: Ashlee Patten ’90 5. Rebecca Paoletti ’90 (Capt.)

NOVICE CREW—Class of 1993

Doris Lee (Cox), Aubrey Borland (Stroke),Sarah Killien, Laura Dalston, Sarah Thielbar, Dana Fisher, Annika Pohlman, Susie Cleary,

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FIRST VARSITYNational Champions

1921 Crew Trophy1975 Cup


Cox: Cecile Roach 4: Lynn Haaland8: Katie Young 3: Susannah Taylor7: Simone Pulver 2: Laura Matlack6: Bonnie Hagerman 1: Sheila Doppelhammer5: Melissa Holcombe (Capt.)

Curtis Jordan (Coach)

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1991 HEAVYWEIGHT CREW

VARSITYLogg Cup

D.Martin ’93, T.Dann ’93, J.Baker ’93, L.Reed ’92, T.Brennan ’93, A.Scott ’92, S.Cornelissen ’92, W.Morriss ’92, E.Karplus ’91 (Capt.), ‘Peanut,’ Coach Curtis Jordan

SECOND VARSITYD.Alderson ’93, T.Polubinski ’92, R.Schader ’93, R.Langenhagen ’91, M.Laidlaw ’94, W.Morriss ’92 (Asst. Coach), S.Reilly ’93, S.Panfil ’92, P.Austin ’93, B.Mann ’92, S.Davis ’93, Coach Curtis Jordan

COACH CURTIS JORDAN

Head Coach

Heavyweight CrewCurtis Jordan has been associated with the Tiger rowing program since 1979 and since 1991 as the coach of the heavyweight varsity. In 1998 Jordan led Princeton to its second national championship in three years, its first title coming at the 1996 IRA regatta.In 1999 Jordan led Princeton to its third Eastern Sprints title in a five-year span and a fifth consecutive points trophy. He was named the EARC Coach of the Year in 1995 and 1999.Prior to taking over the heavyweights, Jordan coached the women’s crew for seven years, compiling a 58-15 record and winning the national championship in 1990. His women’s team twice won Eastern Sprints, and Jordan was the EAWRC Coach of the Year in 1985 and 1990.Jordan has been a U.S. national team coach for the last four Olympics. At the 2000 Games in Sydney, he guided the men’s lightweight four to a sixth-place finish. Jordan was co-coach of the bronze-medal-winning lightweight fours at the 1996 Atlanta Games and also coached the men’s four with cox in Seoul (1988) and Barcelona (1992), where he led the U.S. to a fourth-place finish.


Curtis Jordan on Coaching“I get excited to see young people getting engaged in crew and starting their lives, and having this sport be with them for the rest of their lives. The ability to develop that confidence level as an individual takes you anywhere you want to go. It gives you the confidence to try things you never tried before. It gives you the per-severance to stay with it when you think you are failing and to see things through in life. It’s that little net that catches you when life isn’t going so great. You can come back and say hey, I’ve been through some tough times and I can make it.I’ve been here nearly twenty years. I’ve had alums come back that never really were successful athletical-ly, meaning they never were on the varsity, they weren’t in the top boat, they didn’t win in terms of races, but their experience here at the boathouse, their experi-ence with the people they were rowing with, with their coach, with their team — it’s still in the forefront of their lives and they want to get back to it.”

“I think Curtis Jordan is an extraordinary coach of women’s crews. He was able to find in women the temperament, pushing the right buttons, be-ing stern and then easing off so that they could win races. Sometimes during the hardest parts of winter training, we men would be gutting it out. That’s the typical men’s coaching style. The coach just whips them harder to make them work; that’s the way to get victories. I remember coming down to the Boathouse and seeing Curtis handing out popsicles, or maybe M&Ms, to his crew after their workout. He was at that point when pushing too hard was too much. After that the women seemed to go faster. It was exciting to me to watch because it’s such a different game to play with women.”

Tim Wray ’88

Lori Dauphiny on Coaching“Our rowers — they’re great. They work hard. They’re exceptionally thoughtful. They’re smart. So they’re teachable. They are a coach’s athlete. They’re a dream come true, I think. I have a lot of fun working with them. I love coaching here.In the fall we’re outdoors rowing as many miles as we can. In the winter when the Lake is frozen, we do a lot of work on the ergometer. We spend 4 or 5 days a week on the erg and then a few days in the tanks. A winter training session lasts about an hour. Once we are on the water it’s a two-hour commitment.Crew leaves no time to dilly-dally. You come down and you do the work. I don’t know how to describe it any more than it’s pushing yourself. It’s pressing your limi-tations or not accepting limitations. Winning, that’s the payoff. And it’s sweet when you earn it. I see women come in as freshmen that are sort of timid. Then I see them graduate as these really confident aggressive tough women. I think it is because of their participation in sports. I also think it’s the education that they get up on the hill, but I think being involved in a varsity sport changes a person.Rowing looks beautiful to the spectator, but I can tell you that when you’re in a boat it feels like hell. It’s tough. It takes everything out of you. It is great when you win a race. There’s still a payoff if you don’t win. There’s no doubt about it. You learn a lot about your-self. You learn consistently good work ethics and you learn to take challenges. You learn to be courageous. You learn what it feels like to deal with defeat and you learn what it feels like to deal with victory. There is definitely a lesson involved whether you win or lose.”



VARSITYPlatt Trophy

Wood-Hammond Cup2nd Eastern Sprints

Winner—Augusta InvitationalD.Covin ’91 (Cox), D.Miller ’93 (Stroke), R.Morse ’93, K.Happe ’91, A.Dollarhide ’91, S.Hope ’92, M.Raiser ’92, T.Shearing ’92, J.Malcolmson ’91

JUNIOR VARSITYG.Sasser ’91 (Cox), J.Hardnor ’92 (Stroke), C.Mason ’93, S.McMillan ’93, G.Lockwood ’91, E.Garnett ’93, D.Fisher ’91, J.Garrett ’91, M.Camuso ’91

THIRD VARSITYR.Califano ’93 (Cox), J.McGlynn ’93 (Stroke), A.Clayton ’93, E.Tellander ’93, S.Knox ’93, B.Haarlow ’91, I.Brown ’93, C.Ruggiero ’93, C.Markham ’93



Heavyweight CrewThe number of miles you row in four years of col-

legiate crew would get you from Princeton to the Golden Gate Bridge and at least half the way back. For rowers at Princeton, most of the traveling is done on the three-mile stretch of lake at the bottom of the campus named after Andrew Carnegie. The trip is nonetheless spectacular. All the hours of hard work and weeks of preparation and all the moments of pain and instants of glory make rowing one of the most robust and rewarding experiences to be had at Princeton.

Collegiate rowing is a three-season sport that opens its doors to both veterans and novices. The freshmen com-pete in a league separate from the varsity. In the fall the races are about three miles long and boats start one at a time fifteen seconds apart. This year former world cham-pion sculler Scott Rupe filled in for head coach Curtis Jordan during the first six weeks of the fall season. Trips to the Hudson Challenge, Head of the Charles, and Head of the Schuylkill brought home a bronze, a fifth place, and a seventh place finish respectively. Varsity boats took first and second in the eights races at the Princeton Chase and the freshmen won the Belly of the Carnegie. Things were looking good for the upcoming spring racing season.

As soon as the lake becomes unrowable in the winter, indoor training begins. Facilities at the boathouse for all three rowing teams – heavyweights, women, and lightweights – include over twenty rowing machines a full weight room, and a sixteen seat indoor rowing tank. Christmas break is the last chance for going home to visit friends and family, because from January to the end of May there are at least six days of practice each week. After first semester exams are over, all three teams pile on buses for a week of training during intersession at the University of Tampa. Everyone stayed at the UT boathouse for the first two nights because all the hotels in town were booked for the Superbowl. The inevitable hair clippers came out, and by the end of the week there were two skinheads, three flattops, four Mohawks and five shroom heads. And one hole in the wall. Thanks, Zander. And Simon really did do a tremendous job with the weather.

Winter training ends as soon as the lake thaws, which was unusually early this year. A couple of weeks are spent regaining water skills and then selection for the first, second, and third boats begins. The whole team did a terrific job attacking the winter training schedule, and the results began to show up on the water. This year the boatings remained fixed throughout the season except for a couple of injuries (woops, Laird). Spring races are 2000 meters and boats race side by side to cross the finish line

first, usually within six minutes of the starting command, depending on conditions., We have one of the most dif-ficult dual schedules in the league, racing each school when they are near their peak speed. Princeton’s crews are generally fastest at the end of the season because they train to peak at Eastern Sprints, which is widely considered to be the most important collegiate race in the country.

“I think we can win, and we can win right away,” Curtis told us. “But a lot of how well we do is going to depend on what the rest of the league is doing and how fast they are.” And fast they were. The only shirts brought home by the varsity program this year were from Rutgers. Every heavyweight got a shirt that day and the women’s crews also swept. During the rest of the season, the varsity boats also beat Columbia, MIT, and Yale, but lost to Navy, Penn, Harvard, UCLA, Cornell and Brown. Mike Teti’s first freshman boat fared significantly better, losing only to Harvard and Yale.

There were easily nine crews that were capable of challenging for first varsity medals at Sprints this year, and for the first time in three years, Princeton fielded one of them. The first varsity boat tied for fourth with Brown, finishing behind Penn, Northeastern, and Harvard. The second varsity finished third by a narrow margin in the petit 2V finals, and the first freshman finished third to Yale and Harvard. Gold medals go to the second boat, however, for producing excellent bridge art in Tampa and for bringing home the No Wake! Sign from Worcester. 2F, you did us proud. The final race of the season is the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta held from May 30 to June 1. Harvard and Yale do not participate in this regatta, but UCLA and a few other west coast schools are usually there. The first freshman boat is favored to win and both varsity boats hope to finish higher in the field than they did at Sprints.

Princeton Crew is what it is because of the people who invest their time and energy in it. The most important person for the varsity heavyweights this year was undoubt-edly Curtis Jordan. Curtis became head heavyweight coach in the fall of 1990 after coaching the women’s var-sity team here for nine years. Although he missed the first six weeks of the fall because he coached the U.S. men’s heavyweight eight at the 1990 world championships in Tazmania, Australia, he made it clear from the first day he met with us that big things were going to happen. He gave us clear schedules, organized workouts, and excel-lent coaching around which we could develop and realize both personal and team goals. Very few people expected Princeton’s heavyweight varsity eight to tie for fourth at


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1991 FRESHMAN CREWS — Class of 1994


Stewards CupS.F.Webster (Cox), S.D.Robinson (Stroke), K.T.Hipp, J.R.W.Kawaja, K.K.Peters, J.Z.Fawcett, D.V.Madden, N.J.C.Hrushowy, R.S.Hutchinson

HEAVYWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMENE.B.Johnson (Cox), H.R.MacMillan, J.K.Baxter, F.L.Sawyer, M.D.Laidlaw, M.H.Rhodes, S.A.Oxman, W.S.Richmond


M.Coggins (Cox), M.Schlacter (Stroke), C.Gogolak, M.Quinlan, P.Cunnane, J.Hollander, S.Papa, T.Hahn, G.Weaver

LIGHTWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMENR.Jennings (Cox), S.Cusack (Stroke), C.Boyce, W.Cornelissen, M.Marr, B.Leung, N.Lee, T.Harrison, M.Liao



Eastern Sprints this year after finishing eleventh and ninth the previous two years, and it is just the beginning of many surprises to come. “Winning isn’t anything special,” says Curtis. “I expect to win. I never expect to lose.”

And at the heart of it all is a man older than Lake Carnegie-boatwright Frank Bozarth. Without Frank there’d be a big junkpile of boats and nothing to row them with. We love you, Frank!

Lightweight CrewBringing on the 1991 Lightweight Crew season

involved both looking to the future and turning to the past. In the effort to put together the fastest team in the nation for the Eastern Sprints Regatta in May, the team’s twelve seniors drew on the great history and past tradi-tions of Princeton Lightweight Rowing. While the team was finally unable to convert its efforts into an Eastern Sprints Championships, the year certainly represented the rebirth of the spirit that has historically made the Princeton Lights the toughest racers in the Ivy League.

In September of 1987, when the team’s twelve seniors and current Coach Joe Murtaugh arrived at the boathouse, it was dominated by the flamboyant class of 1988. Lead by rowing legends Mike Zimmer, Tim Wray, Mike Atalay, and Jim Moses, the class of 1988 taught the young and naïve Freshmen and Freshmen Lightweight Coach the ways of a Princeton Lightweight—traditions and attitudes developed over a ten year rowing dynasty.

The class of ’88 had called themselves “The Bitter Boys,” and when the ’88 first varsity eight lost to Harvard at Eastern Sprint after an undefeated season, the class of ’88 past the baton of bitterness on to their young proté-gées. The class of 1991 soon understood that they had become the next generation of angry young men to row on Lake Carnegie.

While the class of 1991 walked in the footsteps of the greats that proceeded them, they worked towards estab-lishing a history of their own. Lead by the enigmatic and intimidating Matthew Camuso, and the raw power of Karl Happe, ’91 oarsmen were responsible for a Freshmen level Eastern Sprints Championships in ’88 and contributed to a National Championships in ’89. Despite their success, a win at the varsity level of the Eastern Sprints Champi-onships remained elusive. The bitterness, bequeathed to the men of ’91 by their forefathers, remained unchecked.

At the beginning of this year, with the class of 1991 at the helm, the team made a conscious effort to renew the traditions that marked the early and mid-eighties. The program became distinguishably more intense, and its

oarsmen ignored all unnecessary distractions in life and turned their attention fully to the task at hand. Workouts were longer, harder, and faster than recent memory could recall. Using his newly developed D-D training plan, Joe Murtaugh constantly emphasized the third stage of aerobic activity. Winter training included an 18,000 meter day, which the team attacked without mercy. Along with intense training and fast boats came the return of other great Princeton Lightweight traditions. The members of the team ignored their social concerns, with the recogni-tion that spending unnecessary amounts of time on social interests would only reduce the unity and the boat speed of the program. The team became more heated, more intense, more bitter.

When Eastern Sprints finally came, the Bitter Boys ’91 remained unsatisfied. As in ’88, the varsity placed second behind Harvard, and the men of 1991 were forced to leave the program without the win that they so long desired. The year, however, could not possibly be seen as a failure. By keeping the spirit and traditions of the Princeton Lights alive and well, the class of 1991 did their best to ensure that Princeton’s victory at Eastern Sprints is certainly soon to come.

Women’s CrewThe 1990-1991 season was characterized by a chang-

ing of the guard. The varsity women’s crew team rowed under the tutelage of a new coach, Dan Roock ’81. The fall season was dedicated to adjusting to the new coach and integrating the large number of sophomore rowers into the varsity squad. A new regatta, the Challenge of the Hudson brought a sixth-place finish for the championship eight and a victory in the varsity four race. At the Head of the Charles, the varsity eight was equally successful at the Head of the Schuylkill, rowing to a fourth-place finish. The varsity four came in first, a feat matched by the victorious novice eight. Finally, Princeton ended the fall season successfully on Lake Carnegie, winning the varsity eight, the varsity four and the novice eight events in the 3-mile Carnegie Chase.

Hours of aerobic training on the ergometer, countless weight sessions, ‘hour of power’ in the tanks, winter train-ing in Tampa, and spring-training in Princeton prepared the team for a successful racing season. The varsity boat (Sandi Chu ’91 cox, Katie Young ’91 stroke, Simone Pulver ’91 co-captain, Bonnie Hagerman ’91, Melissa Holcombe ’91, Sophie Glenn ’92, Laura Matlack ’91,

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VARSITY 1921 Crew Trophy

1975 Cup1984 Point Trophy

Eisenberg CupWilling Trophy

Cox: Sandra Chu 4: Sophie Chen8: Katie Young 3: Laura Matlack7: Simone Pulver (Capt.) 2: Laura Dalston6: Bonnie Hagerman 1: Fay Hanley5: Melissa Holcombe

1991 WOMEN’S CREW

WOMEN’S FIRST NOVICE 8+

—Class of 19948: Carin Christman 4: Katherine Healy7: Elisa Delaet 3: Kristy Nace6: Julie Thorpe 2: Reuwai Mount5: Ashley Maddox 1: Ali Stackpole

JUNIOR VARSITYJessica Bull (Stroke), Kiersten Hildebrand, Diana Clifford, Sarah Fox, Aubrey Borland, Sarah Thielbar, Susie Cleary, Christine Williams.


VARSITY 1921 Crew Trophy



1991 WOMEN’S CREW

JUNIOR VARSITYJessica Bull (Stroke), Kiersten Hildebrand, Diana Clifford, Sarah Fox, Aubrey Borland, Sarah Thielbar, Susie Cleary, Christine Williams.



Laura Dalston ’93, Fay Hanley ’93) rowed an undefeated regular season, beating Mt. Holyoke, Brown, Rutgers, Radcliffe, Cornell, Yale, Penn, Dartmought, Columbia and New Hampshire. The junior varsity had a 7-3 record, in a season characterized by continual improvement. The boat (Doris Lee ’93 cox, Jessica Bull’92 stroke, Kirsten Hildebrand ’92, Diana Clifford ’91 co-captain, Sarah Fox ’93, Aubrey Borlan ’93, Sara Thielbar ’93, Susie Cleary ’93, Christine Williams ’92) ended the regular season charged to prove their racing ability at the Easterm Sprints Championship. The third varsity, racing in an eight and two also completed successfully.

The novice squad, coached by Lori Dauphiny, had an equally victorious spring season. The first novice boat won all its races except a close loss to Brown, due to a crab in the last ten strokes. The second novice eight also had a strong season with only two losses.

The Eastern Sprints Championship on Lake Waramug was a bittersweet competition. The varsity boat, ranked first in the East, came in second to Boston University in the final. The junior varsity improved on its ranking and rowed to a third-place finish. The varsity four also garnered a bronze medal. The first novice eight, in an outstanding performance, won its final by open water over the second place crew. Their race set a new course


record for the first novice event on Lake Waramug. The second novices took home a silver medal. The strong showing in all events earned Princeton Women’s Crew the George Willing Cup, the overall points trophy, which has not belonged to Princeton since 1985.

The final banquet provided an opportunity to remi-nisce and look to the future. The Carol Brown and Class of 1983 rowing awards both went to Melissa Holcombe ’91. The seniors on the squad, five of whom had won every race they rowed on Lake Carnegie, were reminded of their novice days and can leave Princeton knowing that the tradition of excellence will continue on the women’s crew.

1991 BRIC-A-BRAC



VARSITYCarnegie Cup

Logg CupD.J.Martin ’93, J.Z.Fawcett ’94, S.D.Robinson ’94, R.M.Schader ’93, J.P.C.Baker ’93, T.Dann ’93, E.W.Morriss ’92, J.R.W.Kawaja ’94 (Stroke), T.W.Brennan ’93 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITYM.L.Brennan ’93, S.P.Reilly ’93, B.W.Mann ’92 (Capt.), P.Austin ’93, K.T.Hipp ’95, S.R.Davis ’93, A.K.Scott ’92 (Stroke), E.B..Johnson ’94 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITYS.F.Webster ’94 (Cox), D.L.Alderson ’93 (Stroke), N.J.C.Hrushowy ’94, R.S.Hutchinson ’94, J.K.Baxter ’94, T.Pinckney ’93, M.M.Bennett ’93, J.M.Friel ’94, K.S.Daniels ’92



Heavyweight CrewAfter surprisingly strong performance last year, we

returned this year with high expectations. Eight of the nine let-termen from the 1991 varsity were returning along with second year coach Curtis Jordan. In addition, for the first time in several years the team seemed destined to contain a strong senior class.

However, as the season evolved the senior class failed to keep their numbers. Laird Reed bailed on the team before the season even began as he took the year off to vie for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team. Simon Cornelissen, another vital cog in last year’s top boat was lost for the year after he developed a severe case of Epstein Barr disease. Ted Polubinski, Jeremy Hayden and Steve Panfil, three other members of Princeton’s fastest freshman boat ever, also failed to return for their final season. Nevertheless, in the traditional class day regatta, the class of 1992 continued their dominance as they became the first four year winner of the event ever! The juniors suffered a particularly embarrassing performance as two of their stalwarts, John Baker and Pete Austin, failed to show up for the compe-tition. Perhaps they already knew something their classmates were soon to find out.

Over the winter the seniors continued to dwindle as Zan-der Scott, easily one of the most talented rowers in the country, suffered a serious back injury that would have ended the careers of most other competitors. Only through an effort that became an inspiration to his teammates was Zander able to return and compete in the racing season.

As a result of these circumstances, the top boat came to include only one senior, while the JV boat contained only two. With Keith Daniels, known to his friends as slick KD, holding the only spot in the final varsity boat, senior leadership was sparse throughout the program. Nevertheless, these seniors stepped up and led the team to results that exceeded all expec-tations. These four individuals deserve credit for their effort, leadership, and overall commitment to their teammates, and to the sport itself.

Throughout the regular season each boat continued to improve through close losses and inspirational wins. The highlight of these races was the Freshmen and Junior Varsity victories over Harvard, something which had not occurred for a long, long time. The Varsity suffered a bitter disappointment in the prestigious Potomac Regatta as for the second year in a row the crew was placed in the infamous lane 1, where no one, and we mean no one, ever wins. Two memorable races, and one practice also highlighted the season. The first came against Harvard. The Varsity, with their patented quick start, broke out to an early seven seat lead that they maintained through the first 1000 meters. In the third 500, Harvard began to slowly eat into the commanding lead. With less than 500 meters to go, and the Tigers holding on to a slim lead, both crews began to sprint. Unfortunately, Harvard was able to sprint through Princeton in the last few strokes to win by a canvas. While a grave disappointment, the race gave the crew the confidence that if they improved their sprint, they were ready to be one of the top crews in the country.

The next memory came in practice against the Olympic 8 that was training at Princeton. Starting one length up on the Olympic 8 for a 1000 meter piece, the varsity broke off the line at a blistering pace, settling into the low 40s. Not concerned about technique, and simply pulling as hard as possible, the boat found a speed it had not felt before. As the Olympic bow-man and Freshman coach Mike Teti pulled level with coxswain Tom Brennan, the Varsity actually began to move away from the Olympic team for a few strokes. With the skeg humming the entire piece, Princeton finished in a blistering 2:43, holding off the Olympic team which covered the course in 2:40. For the Olympic 8, it was their fastest 1000 meters yet. Olympic coach, Kris Korzeniowski would go on to tell several members of Princeton, “I wish my guys pulled as hard as Princeton did.”

The final duel race of the season before Eastern Sprints came against Brown and Yale at Princeton. The Varsity, hav-ing still not moved to the new hatchet blades, lined up against Brown and Yale armed with hatchets. For the first 1500 meters, the 3 crews remained within one seat of each other. With 500 to go, Brown and Yale pulled away. While disappointing to lose, the first 1500 meters of the race were among the most exciting ever, with the 3 crews driving down the course matching stroke for stroke. After the race, Princeton would permanently switch to the now standard hatchet blades.

Eastern Sprints, traditionally considered as the champi-onship regatta of the year, gave Princeton its opportunity to showcase its increased speed as the Varsity exacted its revenge on earlier losses to Yale, Brown, and Cornell on its way to a fourth place finish. The Junior Varsity similarly garnered a fourth place, the highest finish in recent memory for them. The freshmen boat, led by the superhuman efforts of Don Dreissigacker, easily secured second place losing only to a phenomenal Brown Squad. Together the three boats combined to tie for the overall points trophy at the regatta, a feat that Princeton had never accomplished.

Led by a no-false-bravado attitude of the underclasses, this year’s crews enjoyed a great deal of success and laid a strong foundation for an Eastern Sprints victory in coming years.

Lightweight CrewBehind the leadership of coach Joe Murtaugh and seniors

Jared Hardner, Stephen Hope, Ted Polubinski and Monty Raiser, the lightweight crew team once again set its sight upon being the national champions in 1992.

This year’s crew was stroked by Jared Hardner ’92, fol-lowed by Bob Morse ’93, Sandy McMillan ’93, Monty Raiser ’92, Stephen Hope ’92, Jeremy Bradford ’93, Doug Miller ’93, and Ted Polubinski ’92, and was coxed by Richard Califano ’93.

For rowers, the year was divided into three stages. In stage one, the crew participated in fall races such as the Head of the Charles in Boston, the Peace Frog Regatta in New Haven,


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1992 FRESHMEN — Class of 1995

HEAVYWEIGHT FIRST FRESHMEN

D.Keenan (Cox), D.McGowan (Stroke), T.Feist, D.Fornes, T.Biggs, S.Richmond, A.Lapham, J.Sismund, H.Bartle

HEAVYWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMENT.Leacock (Cox), J.Meyerle (Stroke), L.Davis, F.Lomax, A.Nridenov, J.Warren, C.MacKinnon, W.Fisher, I.Fogg

LIGHTWEIGHT SPRINTS WINNERS

Race Photos – Sport Graphics


and the Head of the Schuylkill in Philadelphia, seeking to gain experience rowing together as a crew and to compete with the best crews in the country and from around the world.

Stage two was the long winter training, during which the training intensity picked up as the rowers underwent an exodus away from Carnegie Lake and into the rowing tanks and weight room. Stage three, of course, is the racing season, during which Princeton competes against the best crews in the Ivy League and across the country, and determination equals distinction.

The crew opened the season with a sixteen-second victory over Dartmouth in Augusta, Georgia, at the Augusta Invitational Regatta. The victory was of particular interest because of the Big Green using a peculiar oar design, anticipated to make the shells dramatically faster, which was introduced into the league this year and which took the league by storm. Two weeks later, they followed that victory up with a three-boat length victory over Navy in Annapolis.

The third race of the season was against a Cornell crew which had shown surprising speed in its early season perfor-mances. Cornell, usually not among the top crews in the league, defeated the Tigers by six seconds on Lake Carnegie, establish-ing themselves as the crew to beat for the season. The Princeton junior varsity, unbeaten to that point as well, was defeated by a strong Rutgers crew on the same day. It marked the first time in three years that either boat had lost so early in the season.

Both crews were able to rebound the next week, defeat-ing Penn by margins of one length in each race. This set the stage for the HYP’s traditionally the most important race of the regular season and held this year on Princeton’s home course on Lake Carnegie. The Yale lightweights defeated both crews, with Harvard third in each race.

At the EARC Sprints, held in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the culminating race of the season, both boats were able to make a strong showing. The varsity defeated Yale, who had beaten them only two weeks earlier, but lost to Cornell and an improved Penn crew. The junior varsity also placed third due to steering errors which cost them the gold.

Women’s CrewAlthough many expected the 1991-1992 year to be a

rebuilding one for Princeton’s Women’s Crew, the team proved itself to be a force once again this year. Despite the loss of six seniors from the 1991 varsity boat, the team raced its way to its third undefeated season in a row.

A strong class of sophomores easily filled the shoes of the graduated seniors. Solid performances at the Head of the Hudson, Head of the Charles, Head of the Schuylkill, and the Princeton Chase in October were indicators of the team’s future success this Spring.

As ice covered Lake Carnegie, rowers moved indoors for grueling hours on the ergometers and seemingly endless weight circuits. Propelled by dreams of gold medals at Eastern Sprints, rowers pushed themselves to the limit everyday throughout the winter. A rainy but fun week in Tampa during intersession allowed for a rainy respite from indoor training.

It seemed as if Lake Carnegie stayed frozen forever, but when the ice finally thawed, the team emerged from winter training more fit than ever. The hard training and dedication paid off once the racing season began. The varsity boat (Doris Lee’93, coxswain, Laura Dalston ’93, Julie Thorp ’94, Kather-ine Healey ’93, Ashley Maddox’94, Aubrey Borland ’93, Elisa DeLaet ’94, Sophie Glenn ’92 (co-captain), Fay Hanley 93), won every race during the regular season. A high point was a victory over Yale which rendered Princeton the only undefeated team going into the Eastern Sprints. The junior varsity (Faith Freeman ’93, Jessica Bull ’92, Ali Stackpole ’94, Carin Christ-man ’94, Sarah Killian ’93, Reuwai Mount ’94, Sara Thielbar ’93, Morgaen Donaldsen ’94, Kirsten Hildebrand ’92) also had a successful third varsity, which raced in an eight and then split into two fours (“A” four –Amy Staurovsky ’94, Sarah Fox ’93, Susie Cleary ’93, Annika Pohlman ’93, Gillian Sanders ’93; “B” four – Michelle Mailberger ’95, Margot Bass ’93, Christine William ’92, Katherine Heinrich ’92, Julia Blankertz ’94) demonstrated the depth of the team’s strength and talent by crushing all of their opponents.

Novice coach Lori Dauphiny once again proved herself an extraordinary coach as she produced another outstanding novice crew. Both the first and second novice boats cruised through all of their opponents. They were hardly challenged on the race course, as they won every race by open water.

Unfortunately, the varsity boats were not able to bring home gold from the Eastern Sprints. Boston University snatched victory from the varsity for the second year in a row, and the junior varsity fell victim to Radcliffe again. The fours came in second and third in their race.

On a brighter note, both the first and second novice boats sustained their undefeated status. The first novices broke the course record (set by the 1991 Princeton novice boat) to capture the gold, and the second novice had an exciting race to place first in their event.

Although varsity rowers were disappointed, everyone celebrated the overall success of Princeton Women’s Crew. For the second year in a row, the Tigers brought home the George Willing Cup, which is the overall points trophy. For the first time that anyone can remember, every single member of Princeton Women’s Crew who competed at Sprints wore a medal home. This is a tribute to the coaching staff, Dan Roock ’81, the varsity coach, and Lori Dauphiny, the novice coach. Roock has coached the women’s team for two years, both of which have included undefeated seasons and points trophy victories.

The final banquet brought an opportunity to celebrate the successful year and to say good-bye to seniors Jessica Bull, Sophie Glenn (co-captain), Katherine Heinrich, Kirsten Hildebrand, and Christine Williams (co-captain). The 1983 Award was given to Jessica Bull, and Sophie Glenn received the Carol Brown Award.

1992 BRIC-A-BRAC




VARSITYWood-Hammond Cup

Winner—Augusta InvitationalJ.Bradford ’93, S.McMillan ’93, M.Raiser ’92, S.Hope ’92, T.Polubinski ’93, D.Miller ’93, R.Morse ’93, J.Hardner ’93 (Stroke), R.Califano ’93 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITYM.Coggins ’94 (Cox), J.McGlynn ’93 (Stroke), A.Clayton ’93, E.Tellander ’93, S.Knox ’93, J.Kovac ’93, C.Boyce ’94, P.Rassam ’94, P.Cunnane ’94

FRESHMEN— Class of 1995

M.Cho (Cox), M.Murphy (Stroke), M.Padula, I. Fog, J.McCarthy, J.Remley, A.Horner, B.Holland, G.Hebard

SECOND FRESHMEN

—Class of 1995A.Yee (Cox), J.Fitgerald, R.Mathey, H.Watkin, E.Bue, K.Howson, C.Pettker, J.Larocca, G.Lam



SHELL CHRISTENINGS — 5

CHRISTENING THEGARY D. WALTERS ’67

CHRISTENING THE ZANDER SCOTT ’92Hugh Scott ’50 and family

– Spring 1993

The “Coach Fin Meislahn ’64” with Fin and Gary Kilpatrick

The “Curtie Bird” with Curtis Jordan flanked by Annie Zimmer and Margo Wheeler



FIRST VARSITY2d in Eastern Sprints


Eisenberg CupWilling TrophySprague Trophy

Cox: Doris Lee 4: Aubrey Borland8: Laura Dalston 3: Ellisa Delaet7: Julie Thorpe 2: Sophie Glenn (Capt.)6: Katherine Healey 1: Fay Hanley5: Ashley Maddox

SECOND VARSITYEastern Sprints Champions

Dolly Callow CupCox: Faith Freeman 4: Reuwai Mount8: Jessica Bull 3: Sarah Killien7: Ali Stackpole 2: Morgaen Donaldson6: Carin Christman 1: Kiersten Hildebrand5: Sara Theilbar

FIRST NOVICE—Class of 1995

1921 Crew TrophyCox: Sarah Hull 4: Isabella Califano8: Lianne Bennion 3: Susanna Gray7: Danika Harris 2: Kim Sladkin6: Wendy Holding 1: Rebecca Barker5: Allison Schiffman

SECOND NOVICE—Class of 1995

Eastern Sprints WinnersCox: Tess Finnegan 4: Megan Owen8: Lisa Andrews 3: Polly Breyer7: Stephanie Snow 2: Rebecca Colvin6: Phoebe Durant 1: Dierdre Christensen5: Jenny Bullock



ROWING REFLECTIONSBy Peter Schroeder ‘62

Remember two to three decades ago when everything you needed to know about rowing could be summarized in a handful of simple declarative sentences?

Six-foot-two, good enough for crew. Oars were standard size and there was only one shell, the Pocock made of laminated western cedar. No room for innovation in this sport which had remained unchanged since the 1930s. To get better you simply rowed one endless mile after another. No matter if you were uncoordinated, nearsighted or had weak ankles. It was a sport without heroes where you sat on your ass and worked it off at the same time.

In 1959 a West German crew of barrel-chested “short” six-footers from Ratzeberg shattered the gentle world of rowing by decisively whipping every east coast collegiate crew. Sitting up straight they rowed a short choppy cadence almost ten strokes higher than the standard 32-34 strokes per minute. Their wide shovel oars and strange rigging made us wonder if this was ever the same sport. But this was only an inkling of things to come.

To put the changes of the past decades in perspective, I talk-ed with Dick Erickson, crew coach for 20 years at the University of Washington. The UW is arguably the mecca of rowing whose legendary oarsmen have, over the past five decades, become crew coaches at virtually every rowing university in the U.S.

“There hasn’t been a significant change in the basic biome-chanics of the rowing stroke in 50 years,” said Erickson. “If you compare the photos of the 1936 Olympic Husky crew which Dutch Schoch rowed on with today’s top crews, you’ll see very little difference in technique. But everything else has changed.”

According to Erickson, there have been three major impacts on rowing which have revolutionized the sport: off-water and off-season physical training; the shortened course down to 2,000 meters; and high-tech rowing equipment. With his crews winning 15 Pac- 10 titles, the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1977, and the national championships in 1984, the Husky coach clearly had no difficulty keeping up with these changes.

Erickson recalls that off-water training got its start in the U.S. in the fall of 1958 in Seattle at the Lake Washington Row-ing Club when he and 17 other rowing graduates who came together with the goal of making the 1959 Pan American Games and the 1960 Olympics. Coaching these ex-oarsmen from Yale, Stanford, MIT, USC, Cal Berkeley, Boston University and the University of Washington, was another rowing legend, Stan Pocock.

“The first thing Stan said to us was that with our experience we didn’t need to row a lot, only to be fit,” explained the patri-cian coach. “So he took us to a guy named Harry Swetnam who introduced us to weight training at his gym in Seattle. Harry was formally uneducated, but he had a profound knowledge of the kinetics of the sport and had studied physiology, anatomy and the development of muscle fibers.”

The rest is history. With one exception Lake Washington Rowing Club won every event it entered and sent 16 oarsmen

to the Pan American games. The exception, ironically, was Erickson himself who lost out in the pairs with cox. A year later, after the same group had equal success in the Olympics, weight training had proved its value. It took a while for the word to get around, but today off-water, year-round condition-ing is an accepted part of any rowing program, and boathouses everywhere have been expanded to accommodate weight rooms and workout equipment.

The second impact has been the shortening of the course from 4, 3, and 2 miles down to 2,000 meters, making row-ing much more anaerobic. “It’s still an aerobic sport, but the first half is anaerobic with a critical transition in the middle,” explained Erickson, who crewed on the winning 1958 crew in Moscow, the first U.S. sports team to compete in Russia after World War II. “Previously we never thought about the first mile except to warm up and get into an aerobic condition, but now rowing is like a longish sprint and has forced major changes in training methods.”

The third major impact was the introduction of synthetic rowing equipment made of carbon fiber, kevlar and other light-weight materials. Eight-oar shells have been reduced almost one-third in weight from 320 pounds to 220 pounds or lighter. Oars are 50 percent lighter, having gone from 10 pounds down to 5 pounds, and blades have changed to become more efficient. Rigging takes exact measurements, requiring more adjustments to fine-tune for the higher rowing stroke.

In spite of these innovations, Erickson defers back to the past as far as technique is concerned. He feels the Ratzeberg style developed by coach Karl Adams was an aberration which, although appropriate for the circumstances in West Germany, set back U.S. rowing 15 years when everyone tried to copy it. It wasn’t until 1970 at the fourth World Rowing Games when the East German crew won at St. Catherine’s that the old style of long-in-the-water regained acceptance.

“It’s very simple to row the boat, and the coaches of the 1920s and 30s discovered it through experimental analysis. There’s no magic, just a lot of hard work. Sports physiologists today are simply confirming their empirical findings of over fifty years ago.”

[Peter Schroeder, ’62, rowed heavyweight crew four years, stroking the varsity boat at the IRA his senior year.]

Princeton Rowing NewsFall 1989



VARSITYCarnegie Cup

Logg CupS.D.Robinson ’94, T.Dann ’93, D.F.Fornes ’95, R.M.Schader ’93, K.T.Hipp ’95, L.S.T.Reed ’93, H.R.MacMillan ’93, J.R.W.Kawaja ’94 (Stroke), T.W.Brennan ’93 (Cox, Capt.)

JUNIOR VARSITYD.L.Alderson ’93, S.R.Davis ’93, A.E.Feist ’95, M.L.Brennan ’93, M.D.Laidlaw ’94, J.D.Sigmund ’95, S.P.Reilly ’93, K.B.McGowan ’95 (Stroke), E.B.Johnson ’94 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITYA.R.Keenan ’96 (Cox), H.Bartle ’95 (Stroke), J.K.Baxter ’94, J.L.Davis ’95, P.Austin ’93, C.R.MacKinnon ’95, F.D.Lomax ’95, E.C.Garnett ’93, M.M.Bennett ’93



Heavyweight CrewWith six out of nine of the previous year’s varsity

returning, and Mike Teti’s first freshman class now se-niors, the 1992-1993 season looked to be the best ever for Princeton Heavyweight Crew. Led by coach Curtis Jordan, a stellar cast of seniors supporting stalwart captain Tom Brennan, and arguably the strongest entering sophomore class ever, the team roared to its best fall season in recent memory highlighted by a 2nd place finish in the Champi-onship Eights at the Head of the Charles. Winter training began with high hopes.

Perhaps the seeds of demise were sown on Class Day, when the freshmen took the day with ease. In a sign of worse things to come, the relatively puny junior class blew the sophomores away. The senior class, as always leaders in the utmost, brought up the rear. Winter training was a blast, though. Ergs, weights, and tank sessions gave way to fun in the sun in Tampa, Florida. Hugh MacMillan, the “Weather Czar” used his meteorological knowledge of his home state to the teams’ advantage, blessing us with four solid days of sunshine and warmth during the inter-session. By the end of the trip, the crew was filled with enthusiasm and spirit as the trip closed on a very favorable note.

Unfortunately, the weather was not as cooperative back in scenic Princeton, as the lake never fully melted until after spring break. This created the first of many problems that the team would encounter by the end of the spring: lack of training time on the water. This proved to be a problem for each boat in the initial encounter with the U.S. Naval Academy, as every crew, including the highly regarded freshmen, was beaten.

Unfortunately, this type of result became all-too-familiar for the varsity boats. While the Third Varsity, led by seniors Matt Bennett, Pete Austin and Eben Garnett, was able to beat Penn and secure a win in their flight at Eastern Sprints, their performance was the highlight of the Varsity season.

The Second Varsity, with returning seniors Matt Brennan, Sean Reilly, Dave Alderson and Sean Davis, was unable to fare as well as the Third Varsity. After a strong win over Rutgers, the boat fell prey to a mysterious virus spread by Jim “Dah Coach” Sigmund, and suffered to the point that the stroke of the boat, Kevin McGowan, vanished for the rest of the season. At Eastern Sprints, the crew garnered a ninth place finish, new lineup and all, ending on a disappointing note.

The first Varsity, with no false bravado senior lead-ership from coxswain Tom Brennan, Laird Reed, Ryan

Schader, and Tyler Dann, convincingly beat Rutgers, Columbia, MIT, and Cornell, but was unable to muster the same performance for their major races. After entering Eastern Sprints as the eighth, seeded crew, they failed to reach the finals and finished a disappointing ninth place. As a result, the crew disbanded before IRAs and the Na-tional Championship.

Both freshmen crews enjoyed very successful seasons. After a rather slow start, the Second Freshmen went on to win Eastern Sprints easily. The First Fresh-men, packed with talent and desire, nearly avenged an earlier four second loss to Brown, gained second place at Eastern Sprints, outclassed the rest of the field by over eight seconds and lost to Brown by a mere one foot in a record-smashing time. Their success continued at IRAs with a third place finish.

Though the team was, for the most part, unsuccess-ful in terms of results, many lessons were learned. The Seniors are able to walk away with many great memories of their Princeton rowing careers. Looking forward, with the disappointment of the spring season acting as motiva-tion, combined with the strength of this year’s Freshman class, and strong Upperclassmen coming together under the leadership of the 1993-1994 Captain Steve Robinson, next year should be one to remember.

Lightweight CrewReach back in your memory a year or two, to re-

member those few rowers proud and true, who took part in epic history – in the hard-fought season of ninety three as the oars and coxwains of the Princeton Crew.

On that September day when we first hit the water, fresh from the summer, almost everyone returned – thirty two sons of Princeton and one brave new daughter all bound and determined not be burned. By a single crew for lack of trying; and from that day forward there’s no denying that that hard-working team will never look back with one ounce of regret – they rowed with sack, and fol-lowed Joe’s motto “when in doubt attack!”

As Joe pushed his men harder than ever before, results came back positive from the Connecticut shore. With a sixth at the Charles everything seem set, until a Head of the Schuylkill we’d rather forget. But even then they showed more in store with a depth truly unparal-leled in any recent year, they pushed into the winter and shifted into high gear. Erg wheels began spinning, much to Graham’s delight. But as the meter count mounted, Murph dropped out of sight.


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VARSITYPlatt Trophy

Wood-Hammond Cup2nd in Nationals

R.Califano ’93 (Cox), D.Miller ’93 (Stroke), P.Cunnane ’94, J.Kovac ’93, J.Bradford ’93, A.Horner ’95, R.Morse ’93, S.McMillan ’93, R.Mathey ’95

JUNIOR VARSITYA.Yee ’95 (Cox), E.Tellander ’93 (Stroke), A.Clayton ’93, J.Remley ’95, C.Boyce }94, G.Weaver ’94, B.Holland ’95, S.Knox ’93, M.Murphy ’95

THIRD VARSITYM.Cho ’95 (Cox), H.Watkin ’95 (Stroke), G.Hebard ’95, C.Pettker ’95, J.Brown ’93, C.Markham ’93, J.Larocca ’95, L.Hardy ’95, K.Howson ’95

ROWING JACKETSModeled by

Austin “Bucky” Clayton ’93 and Jason Brown ’94

Race Photos – Sport Graphics


January flew and the Tampa trip ended but back in Princeton it seemed the winter never would as it dragged on far longer than it should, twelve inches of ice covering the lake nearly drove the crew insane, when over spring break another twelve inces of snow descended. We rowed more erg pieces than we ever thought we could, until finally the coaches launches cleared us a lane.

With the season upon them they turned up the heat, and a sense of urgency pushed up the intensity. Big ergs put Alex Horner in the 1V despite his immensity but others had to race their best friends to nail down a seat. A bad row in Augusta sent Jake Remley to the JV, then spirits lifted with a clean sweep at Navy. The Raiser was christened in Monty and Vic’s memory, thanks to the generosity of their friends and family. At Ithaca NY all boats met with success and down at Philly all passed the Penn test. But, up on the Charles close losses plagued the varsity.

Sprints could have been better, but congrats to the Freshmen, who renewed old Princeton traditions with two boat length victory exhibitions. Andrew Yee’s strong V laid pipe with its strongmen but like the JV came in close second. The varsity went out strong for a thousand but the grim reaper beckoned.

And, despite rowing with heart and soul they were unable to achieve their goal. Finishing a disappointing fourth place, but to tell you the truth, it was a good race, all felt in their hearts a truth unspoken reinforced each and every day, a time-worn habit unbroken. A compila-tion of blood, sweat tears and sacrifice given which keep rowers coming back to the boathouse even when driven from the field by opposing crews who row for the same reasons all rowers do.

The seniors now must be going, to see if there re-ally is life after rowing, Charles Markham – that “late to practice look” captain Sandy McMillan–“Bring your checkbook!!” Bucky Clayton Squawking louder, Erik Tellander never even met her, Bob Morse who’s rowing went to the trash and Jeremy Bradford who was a horse’s . . . John Kovac want to strike a pose Douglas Miller–who the hell knows? Richard Califano, our little schmoe, Slam-min’ Sammy Knox,–will he explode?

We’ll miss the boathouse more than we can say but to those of you who get to stay a few last words–Princeton Lightweights, seize the Day!

Women’s CrewThe 1992-1993 season has been an incredible year

from the very start and one which will be remembered not only for its success but also for the team’s depth and spirit. From day one the entire varsity’s goals were to finish undefeated and to sweep Eastern Sprints. Indeed all boats finished the regular season undefeated and domi-nated Sprints as no other team has done in the 15 years of the regatta’s history.

With only five seniors graduating, the incoming eleven sophomores and the remaining eight juniors and eleven seniors provided the Tiger squad with a strong basis with which to start the season.

With this year’s unusually long winter the women’s crew team survived numerous weight circuits and ergom-eter pieces. The team used this time to increase its endur-ance and strength in preparation for the upcoming spring races. A sun-filled week of training in Florida allowed the team members to escape from the indoors as well as an opportunity to get back on the water and into racing mode. Unfortunately, the return to Princeton was followed by several more weeks of ice and cold temperatures. The blizzard during spring break once again forced the crew indoors, though both the varsity coach Dan Roock ’81 and the novice coach Lori Dauphiny kept the team in shape and entertained through many new and exciting modes of exercise. With the end of spring break came the last of the ice and Lake Carnegie finally opened up to allow the extremely eager rowers to get into the boats and to start taking advantage of the great strength, endurance and depth which had become evident within the team ranks throughout winter training.

Unfortunately, the team was plagued by several injuries and cases of mono throughout the spring. Even so, the Tigers were able continually to produce fast and undefeated boats. The 1992-1993 season was also replete with away races (Rutgers, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth). The numerous bus rides and excursions allowed the team to get to know the novice crew as well as become even more unified within the varsity ranks.

The varsity boat (Sarah Hull ’95 coxswain, Lianne


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1993 Princeton University Women’s Crew Results

First Varsity: 8-0 (EAWRC Champions)Second Varsity: 8-0 (EAWRC Champions)Third Varsity: 1-0 (EAWRC Champions)Varsity Four: 3-0 (EAWRC Champions)First Novice: 9-0 (EAWRC Champions)Second Novice: 6-0 (EAWRC Champions)Novice Four: 1-0 (EAWRC Champions)




? (Cox), B.Hall (Stroke), C.Farmer, C.Neidre, J.Steinman, M.Rutherford, T.DeGavre, N.Burgin, A.Sawyer

HEAVYWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMENUndefeated EARC Sprints Champs

C.J.Harner (Cox), C.Johnson, J.Sulger, S.Markle, S.Lamb, F.Malony, P.Streber, B.Pugh, D.Krakower

LIGHTWEIGHT FIRST FRESHMEN

J.Karpick, N.Parsons, C.Panisi, M.Lawson, J.McCrary, A.Parsons, K.Cotter, D.Digilio, Coach J.Parker ’89

LIGHTWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMEN? (Cox), A.Hinman (Stroke), H.Knight, M.Richardson, E.Gotlieb, A.Bogan, P.Hansen, A.Paradis, J.Law




PRINCETON UNIVERSITYChampion International Collegiate Rowing Series1993 Women’s Varsity Eight National Champion

Bennion ’95, Julie Thorp ’94, Ashley Maddox ’94, Reu-wai Mount ’94, Katherine Healey ’93, Wendy Holding ’95, Aubrey Borland ’93 (co-captain), Sarah Killien ’93) won every race during the regular season. Although each dual race competitor claimed to have their strongest team in years, the varsity boat easily defeated each opponent to complete its fourth undefeated season in a row. The junior varsity (Faith Freeman ’93 coxswain, Danika Harris ’95, Fay Hanley ’93, Laura Dalston ’93, Elisa DeLaet ’94, Sarah Fox ’93, Morgaen Donaldson ’94, Ali Stackpole ’94, Susie Cleary ’93) were also an extremely strong crew this season. They won all their dual races by convincing margins and forced the varsity crew to achieve its peak performance each day in practice. The third varsity which raced in an eight then split into two fours for Sprints (“A” four – Tess Finnegan ’95 coxswain, Sara Theilbar ’93, Jenny Bullock ’94, Kim Sladkin ’95, Becca Barker ‘ 95; “B” four – Mo Sakurai ’96, Margot Bass ’93, Polly Breyer ’95, Gillian Sanders ’93 (co-captain), Meg Owen ’95) demonstrated the team’s depth by also successfully beating all of their opponents as well as both the Rutgers and New Hampshire junior varsities. Lori Dauphiny’s novice crews once again dominated each race and finished the season undefeated and ready for Sprints.

Although each dual race is important in itself, all members of the squad looked towards Eastern Sprints as an opportunity to truly show their rowing supremacy. Boston University had won Sprints for the past two years

and therefore, although Princeton was ranked first in all boats, was clearly the crew to beat in the Varsity race. As a perfect finish to an extremely successful season, the Varsity boat convincingly defeated Boston University by 4.6 seconds. This win, although incredibly exciting was just one of the numerous gold medals to be awarded to a Princeton boat. The Junior Varsity cruised to a gold only .35 seconds off a course record (despite a head wind), and the A and B fours finished first and fifth respectively. The novice first boat also sustained its undefeated status while the second boat obtained a silver medal behind Radcliffe. Clearly the Princeton team was awarded the George Will-ing Cup, the overall points trophy, obtaining 66 out of a possible 68 points.

The varsity sweep of Sprints will result in coach Dan Roock’s ’81 shaving his head at the team’s final banquet, Roock promised early on in the fall that he would shave his head if the crews swept Sprints and he will surely be bald with great pride. This banquet will also serve as an opportunity to celebrate the team’s incredibly successful season as well as to say goodbye to the graduating seniors. This senior class not only represents one of the largest classes in memory, but also novice coach Lori Dauphiny’s first class to graduate. Although the talent and spirit of the senior team members will be missed, this year’s novice crew will surely provide next year’s team with the depth and unity needed to make sweeping Sprints a Princeton Women’s Crew tradition.

1993 BRIC-A-BRAC


1993 WOMEN’S CREWSFIRST VARSITY

National Champions–UNDEFEATED

1921 Crew Trophy1975 Cup

1984 Point TrophyEisenberg CupWilling TrophySprague Trophy

Cox: Sarah Hull 4: Katherine Healey8: Lianne Bennion 3: Wendy Holding7: Julie Thorpe 2: Aubrey Borland (Capt.)6: Ashley Maddox 1: Sarah Killien5: Reuwai Mount

VARSITY WITH TROPHIES

Sarah Hull (Cox), Lianne Bennion, Julie Thorp, Wendy Holding, Reuwai Mount, Dan Roock (Coach), Katherine Healey, Aubrey Borland, Sarah Killien, Ashley Maddox


Dolly Callow CupCox: Faith Freeman 4: Sarah Fox8: Danika Harris 3: Morgaen Donaldson7: Fay Hanley 2: Ali Stackpole6: Laura Dalston 1: Susie Cleary5: Elisa DeLaet


Cox: Karen Huh 4: Eliza Hitz8: Ivy Schlesinger 3: Julie Hinckley7: Verna Lomax 2: Julie Laudenslager6: Cherylyn Brandt 1: Heather Harnly5: Stephanie Gregg


– Sport Graphics


– Sport Graphics


THE FRESHMAN AWARDAwarded to a Freshman by His Teammates

for a Unique Contribution to the Heavyweight Freshman Crew

DOLLY CALLOW CUPJUNIOR VARSITY

NATIONAL (WOMEN) CHAMPIONS

Presented by

The Varsity Boat Clubof

The University of Washington1983 Washington1984 Yale1985 Princeton1986 Wisconsin1987 Washington1988 Yale1989 Washington1990 Cornell1991 Radcliffe1992 Princeton1993 Princeton1994 Washington1995 Washington State1996 Princeton1997 Discontinued when Princeton Women’s Crew joined NCAA

DOLLY CALLOW CUP

1981 Frank Derby ’84 Scott Scharer ’841982 Donat vonMuller ’841983 Tim van Leer ’861984 David Saxen ’87 Todd Finnegan ’871985 John Richardson ’881986 John Parker ’891987 John Green ’901988 Joseph Caminiti ’91

1989 Daniel Roock ’811990 Tom Brennan ’931991 Jon Kawaja ’941992 Wes Fisher ’951993 Colin Farmer ’961994 Seth Brennan ’971995 Chris Ahrens ’981996 Tom Herschmiller ’99 (Discontinued)


1994 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWSVARSITY


Navy TrophyLogg Cup

E.B.Johnson ’94 (Cox), C.A.Neidre ’96 (Stroke), C.M.Farmer ’96, M.J.Rutherford ’96, K.T.Hipp ’95, R.C.Hall ’96, J.R.W.Kawaja ’94, D.F.Fornes ’95, J.Z.Fawcett ’94

JUNIOR VARSITYA.R.Keenan ’96 (Cox), S.D.Robinson ’94 (Stroke), T.C.DeGavre ’96, H.R.MacMillan ’94, J.D.Sigmund ’95, J.L.Davis ’95, J.T.Steinman ’96, S.E.Markle ’96, S.B.Lamb ’96

THIRD VARSITYD.J.Khoury ’96 (Cox), E.B.Johnson ’94 (Stroke), W.R.Fisher ’95, ?, J.K.Baxter ’94, J.L.Davix ’95, W.S.Richmond ’95, ?, ?

COLLEGIATE NATIONAL

CHAMPIONSVarsity 8 at Cincinnati

3rd PlaceJ.Z.Fawcett ’94, D.F.Fornes ’95, K.T.Hipp ’95, S.D.Robinson ’94 (Capt.), C.M.Farmer ’96, C.A.Neidre ’96, R.C.Hall ’96, J.R.W.Kawaja ’94, E.b.Johnson ’94 (Cox)



CONTENT CUPHONORS

Martha Content Joukowsky, Brown ’58The Gift of Her Family

Who Share the Belief in the Precept

“MENS SANA, IN CORPORE SANO”

The Cup Celebrates the Honor and Strength Exhibited by the Competitors in the Annual Race

between

Brown and Princeton Universities

Men’s Heavyweight Crews

Inaugurated April 19941994 Brown1995 Brown1996 Brown1997 Princeton1998 Princeton1999 Princeton2000 Brown

BELLY BOWLBelly of the Carnegie Fall Regatta

Princeton, New Jersey

Donated in 1994 byCarnegie Lake Rowing Association

Awarded for the Combined Total Times Freshmen Heavyweight, Lightweight,

Novice Women

(Eastern Sprints Colleges)

1994 Princeton1995 Princeton1996 Princeton1997 Princeton1998 Yale1999 Princeton1999 Princeton2000 Princeton



VARSITYNational Champions

Goldthwait CupPlatt Trophy

Wood-Hammond CupCoach Joe Murtaugh, R.Mathey ’95, P.Cunnane ’94, P.Streber ’96 (holding Collegiate National Championship Award), J.McCrary ’96 (Cox, kneel-ing), K.Cotter ’96, M.Lawson ’96, A.Horner ’95, D.Digilio ’96, G.Hughes ’96

PRINCETON PASSES

METROPOLITAN ROWING CLUB

Henley Royal Regatta — Leaving the Temple

Thames Cup Semi-Finalists

THE THAMES CHALLENGE CUP

DRAW



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The crew headed into Eastern Sprints with justifiably high expectations. The freshman began the day’s racing with a solid second-place finish behind a dominant Brown crew. Unfortunately, the varsity boats would later struggle. The JV finished a disappointing eighth, despite being one of the top ranked crews in the regatta, and the Varsity wound up a frustrating fifth. The varsity crews, however, would soon make up for these results.

At the IRA Championship, the JV redeemed their Sprints finish with a spirited fourth-place showing, while the Varsity exceeded expectations with a stirring second-place finish, behind only Brown. This result would bode well for the Varsity at the Collegiate National Championship in Cincinnati a week later. The freshmen, meanwhile again put it all on the line, only to come up short to Brown for a second time.

The following week, the Varsity Eight faced a deep and blazing fast field in the finals of the National Champi-onships. In response, the Tigers tore out of the blocks and seldom saw their stroke rate dip below 40 beats per minute during the body of the race. Despite their blistering pace, Princeton found themselves solidly in 5th place with 500 meters remaining. Unbelievably, the Tigers found one more gear. Raising the rate to 46+ beats per minute for the entire last quarter of the race, the Tigers blew through Dartmouth and caught the University of Washington on the last stroke. After a seemingly interminable wait on the water for the photo finish, the Tigers found themselves with a bronze medal in a scorching time of 5:29.

From the opening race of the season, the Princeton Heavyweights gave notice that they were a force to be reckoned with. At each stage of the season, they delivered, culminating with a bronze medal at the National Champi-onship. While not possessing some of the raw horsepower that some of their competition possessed, the 1994 crew established a tradition of winning that had been missing in recent years. Given the young core of this year’s team — and a new mindset that winning is no longer something to be hoped for, but, rather, expected — there is no doubt this year’s success is only the beginning of things to come.

Lightweight Crew

Heavyweight CrewFrom the first head race in the fall to the final champi-

onship race in the spring, the 1994 Heavyweight Tiger Crew exhibited the depth, talent and character of a championship crew. Led by Captain Steve Robinson, along with a group of five fellow standout seniors and a talented incoming sophomore class, this year’s crew quickly established a new era in Princeton Heavyweight Rowing.

Despite little preparation due to the late academic start of the University, the fall racing season produced the best results the program had seen in recent memory. The season opened with the annual Head of the Charles Regatta, where Coach Curtis Jordan’s Varsity Eight garnered a stellar third-place collegiate finish. The Varsity Four was also destined for a medal going into the last section of the race, but were struck in the closing stretch by a slower Wisconsin crew. The resulting tangle of boats, oars and tempers resulted in the near decapitation of the wayward Badger coxswain and knocked the Princeton Four out of medal contention. The next week, the Tigers hosted the Princeton Chase against a large field that included a highly touted Yale crew. In win-ning the Chase, the Varsity Fight used a decisive late charge to nip the Yale crew by a scant 0.4 seconds.

The Princeton Chase signaled the end of the fall season and the start of winter training. Winter provided yet another series of recently unparalleled achievements, culmi-nating with the Tigers’ results at the World Indoor Rowing Championships. Jon Horner kicked-off the Championships by powering his way into the Coxswain Finals, only to be denied a medal at the very end. His inspiring performance led to a string of personal bests and two more Tiger oarsmen in the finals. This time Don Fornes and big Mathius Ruther-ford advanced to the Collegiate Finals, with Jonny Kawaja missing by a whisker. Don, with his unique warm-up style and thousand-meter pose for the camera, brought home an impressive fourth-place finish.

With two months of Curtis’ winter training behind them, the team took a break from the indoors and headed south for the traditional Florida training camp. The Tigers were treated to a week of warm Florida weather thanks to the deft control of weather czar Luke E. Luke. The trip allowed the crew to reacquaint themselves with the water through miles of drills and hard training.

Once back in Princeton, the crew spent another pro-ductive month and a half indoors as they waited for Lake Carnegie to thaw. The weather, and lake, finally broke just in time for spring break. In an inspirational bow to team solidarity, and warmer weather, Messrs. Lamb, Markle and Rutherford decided to forego the need for hair and shaved their heads bald. A final sign of spring, the P-Keepers, led by Harvey Bartle, set to work on their duties restoring the “P” and joined the rest of the team on the water.

The fall and winter season proved to be no fluke, as Princeton roared through the spring season, again achieving a level of success not seen by the heavyweight squad in years. The season started with a sweep of an always-powerful Navy crew — a sweep that saw freshman coach Mike Teti live up to his promise to shave his signature twelve-year old mus-tache should the Tigers ever accomplish such a feat. In the following weeks unburdened by Teti’s mustache and Messrs. Lamb, Markle and Rutherford’s hair, the Tigers proceeded to take the Carnegie, Childs and Logg Cups.



JUNIOR VARSITYUndefeated Sprints Champs

A.Yee ’95 (Cox), M.Murphy ’95 (Stroke), R.Mathey ’95, A.Phillips ’96, C.Pettker ’95, B.Holland ’95, C.Boyce ’94, J.Sulger ’95, J.Brown ’94

THIRD VARSITYM.Cho ’95 (Cox), H.Knight ’96 (Stroke), N.Parsons ’96, J.Karpick ’96, G.Hebard ’95, H.Watkins ’95, A.Paradis ’96, D.Guentner ’95, A.Hinman ’96


Comments on Princeton RowingCoach Dan Allen (Berkeley ‘91)

UNBELIEVABLE! So far, everything has been unbelievable.Prior to coming to the East Coast, I hated the Ivy League.

For four years I got my butt kicked by these turds from the East. Every year a crew from the East would take top honors at the Championship Regattas. Why was the East faster than the West? My alma mater has water year round. How is it that East Coast crews, who spank around indoors for half the year, perennially trash crews from the West? I had to find out what made them faster!

It turns out that “spanking” around indoors is definitely not what’s going on. Well, there is no secret. No magic pill, no “secret go-juice,” no special erg workout. No magic technique or weight circuit. Just plain, honest hard work. The commitment to reaching one’s potential is the main theme instilled from the top levels of each program within the boathouse. There are definitely no shortcuts.

On the other hand, there are some things about Princeton that seem to be unique solely to Old Nassau. I think that they are to the point of being unbelievable. Little did I know how much I would learn on my mission East. A few examples:

Unbelievable that the athletes I had grown to hate would actually turn out to be good, solid individuals that cared about rowing as much as I did. Unbelievable that such a distinguished group of coaches would take in a nobody from California.

Unbelievable that the men and women can train alongside one another without any bitterness or jealousy. Unbelievable that the men and women actually know each other and get along. Unbelievable that the coaches actually support and assist each other and get along. Unbelievable that Frank [Bozarth] actu-ally talks to a blonde haired kid from California. Unbelievable that Princeton has never won the Varsity Men’s 8+ event at Sprints. Unbelievable how much I’m learning. Unbelievable how cold it gets back here. Unbelievable that I caught a live fish from Lake Carnegie. Unbelievable how nice the Princeton Boathouse is. Unbelievable how close the lake is to campus. Unbelievable that each Varsity Crew will never race in a boat over two years old. Unbelievable how crazy the students can get “on the street”. Unbelievable how boring Ivy League Bas-ketball is. Unbelievable that Mike Teti still trains twice a day, every day. Unbelievable to watch all the Freshman boats race in the Belly of the Carnegie. Unbelievable how controversial “going dry” can be. Unbelievable how I got another nickname- “Danimal”. Unbelievable that it’s fun coaching the community rowing group known as the “Carnegie Lakers”. Unbelievable that, in only six months, I feel like a part of an incredible fam-ily — the Princeton Crew.



Review of the 1994 Crew Year (continued)With the loss of 12 seniors from 1st year, a very tradi-

tional Lightweight program was suddenly left without the very structure which had defined it for so long. But with this lack of rigidity came a freeing of spirits, a release of prior expectations, and an entirely new set of standards for attitudes and performance.

Some traditions remained strong while most were redefined. The team was still quite at peace with their na-kedness and fond of Peace Frog, yet the overly analytical methodology was replaced with a tendency to push it, try it, run it, drink it, lift it, win it, kiss it, pull it, row it, — and above all else, attack it.

Early in the fall, the lightweights faced their first test at the world’s largest international regatta, the Head of the Charles. A young boat of five sophomores, three juniors, and a lone senior attacked the 32 boat field and placed a record third, behind the two US national camp boats, and fifteen seconds ahead of the next collegiate crew.

Soon after, the team was forced indoors. Adhering to the words of Freshman coach and Olympian Mike Teti, “If you want to get better on the erg, row the f***ing erg”, the team followed the well-planned workouts designed by Coach Murtaugh—which indeed consisted of four erg workouts every week. After creating a week of perfect weather in Florida, weather czar pat Cunnane, desiring more indoor training, allowed the lake to remain solidly frozen for over four and a half months.

The lack of scenery change inherent in rowing the ergometer did not prove to be an obstacle in the team’s winter training. Increased intensity, clear team goals, and the inspiring audio and visual media provided by Capt. Graham allowed nearly everyone’s Hard Edge to dominate, driving the team to new levels of improvement.

But all good things must come to an end—and with the melting of the ice, winter training was over.

A quick glance at the lightweight roster shows im-mense promise for the upcoming spring season: The light-weights are blessed with coxswains technically-talented Justin McCraray, audibly-inspiring Andrew Yee, and do-everything, say anything Mike Cho. They have the awe-inspiring, Sprints-winning stern pair of Greg and Dave, as well as equally touchy-feely rowers like Rod, J. Perv., Haven, Adrianne, and Murph. These rhythmic pairs will compliment powerful (though at times less rhythmic) engine-room row-ers like Graham, Kevin, Alex, and “I’m a bad man” Lawson (if these guys ever made weight). The team has sophomore mercenaries Pavel, Streber and Justing Sulgier, fiery junior trainaholics Jake, Pettker, and Heath, — and above all, the charismatic leadership of Coach Joe and the Senior Alliance.

Women’s CrewLast season, Princeton Women’s Crew achieved un-

precedented success. Winning Eastern Sprints at the first,

second, and third varsity and the first novice levels, the team forced Coach Dan Roock to fulfill his promise to shave his head. One month and one head of hair later, the team again delivered by bringing home the gold in the Varsity and Ju-nior Varsity races at the National Collegiate Championship Regatta in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Following the success of 1993, this year has challenged the crew to meet the high standards and expectations set by last year’s performance. With eleven talented seniors lost to 1993 graduation, the team arrived at the Boathouse this Fall with a mixture of enthusiasm and apprehension. However, the presence of five returning members of the 1993 Varsity boat as well as the addition of a group of gifted sophomores has given Princeton Women’s Crew the solid base that has been the team’s strong point in recent years. Led by seniors Jenny Bullock, Elisa DeLaet, Morgaen Donaldson, Ashley Maddox, Reuwai Mount, Ali Stackpole, and Julie Thorp, the team has evolved over the past six months into a crew that will challenge the best at Eastern Sprints and Nationals.

Preparation for this Spring began in October and November, when the teams competed in the Head of the Rochester, the Head of the Charles, the Princeton Chase, and the Portland Lo/op, in Portland, Oregon. Plagued by injury and illness, the crews did not perform as well as they had hoped but nevertheless gained valuable experience. Provid-ing a glimpse of their competition, the Fall races spurred the rowers to work extra hard during winter training.

Forced inside by cold weather and the freezing of Lake Carnegie, the crew began its heavy winter schedule of erg tests, weight lifting, and tank workouts. Broken up only by a week-long training trip in Tampa, Florida in January, winter training yielded positive results for the Tigers. Team fitness and technique improved vastly and confidence rose as a result. Following three and a half months of indoor training, the team has taken to the water with a renewed determination and fire.

Determination and fire have been the strength of Princeton Women’s Crew in the past and continue to push Princeton rowers to challenge each other in preparation for the racing season. Over the year, the Tigers have improved consistently and look forward to the competition in the weeks ahead. Although the competition should be fierce, the Princeton Women’s Crew is ready and, who knows, Coach Roock’s hair is looking a little long these days!

1994 BRIC-A-BRAC




J.Ramos (Cox), C.Cukor (Stroke), T.Carson, S.Brennan, T.Richter, M.Brekken, L.Meidar, K.O’Connell, M.Anderson

HEAVYWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMEN? (Cox), W.McCormack (Stroke), J.Mares, R.Coch, J.Pogarelec, J.Labonte, M.Hurley, S.Kim, M.Laurich

LIGHTWEIGHT FIRST FRESHMEN

S.Ryan (Cox), J.Bartucz (Stroke), A.Cabeza, S.Brownlie, A.Hermosilla, T.Fernandez, I.Sachs, J.Cope, D.Frankel

LIGHTWEIGHT SECOND

FRESHMENR.Hibbert (Cox), D.Rein (Stroke), A.Spivak, D.Medelow, B.Davis, J.Radice, P.Cho, S.Kimm, ?



1994 WOMEN’S CREWFIRST VARSITY

UNDEFEATEDNational Champions



Cox: Sarah Hull 4: Elisa DeLaet8: Lianne Bennion 3: Cherylyn Brandt7: Danika Harris 2: Ali Stackpole6: Wendy Holding 1: Julie Thorpe5: Reuwai Mount (Capt.)


Cox: Sandra Scholl 4:Eliza Hitz8: Ivy Schlesinger 3: Jorey Else7: Stephanie Gregg 2: Rebecca Barker6: Morgaen Donaldson 1: Heather Harnly (Capt.)5: Kim Sladkin

FIRST NOVICE 8—Class of 1997

Cox: Audrey McAdams 4: Sarah Ryerson8: Katherine Scott 3: Christy Wiegand7: Betsy Murphy 2: Leslie Gewin6: Sarah Johnston 1: Kim Hardman5: Joanna Schmidt

VARSITY PAIRat 1994 Princeton Chase

Bow: Meg Owen ’95Stroke: Ivy Schlesinger ’96




EASTERN SPRINTS CHAMPIONS

Worcester BowlJ.Steinman ’96, D.Fornes ’95, T.Richter ’97, M.Rutherford ’96, K.Hipp ’95 (Capt.), B.Hall ’96, S.Markle ’96, C.Farmer ’96, D.Khoury ’96, C.Jordan (Coach)

Beat Harvard Varsity in dual race for first time in 11 years.

VARSITY SQUAD1921 Crew Trophy

Rowe Cup

JUNIOR VARSITYA.J.Sawyer ’96 (Bow), J.D.Sigmund ’95, J.L.Davis ’95, M.E.Brekken ’97, L.Y.Meidar ’97, R.C.Hall ’96, T.K.Carson ’97, C.E.Cukor ’97 (Stroke), J.P.Horner ’96 (Cox)


I.R.A. National ChampionsS.S.Wisenbaker, M.A.L.Crooks, R.A.McInturff, J.R.Slocum, C.W.Bordeau, S.M.Kammann, M.M.Crotty, C.P.R.Ahrens, A.G.Shroff (Cox)




HEAVYWEIGHT VARSITY

EARC Sprints Champions


Compton CupNavy Trophy

Back Row: S.F.Brennan ’97, K.T.Hipp ‘95, D.J. Koury ’96, M.J.Rutherford ’96, T.J.Richter ’97Front Row: C.M.Farmer ’96, S.E.Markle ’96, D.F.Fornes ’95, J.L.Steinman ’96

Lightweight CrewThis year’s team had a special balance to it. Led by

a generous supply of experience in the Senior Class (with Chris Pettker and Alex Horner at the helm as captains), fueled by the talent of the Juniors, and sparked by the youth of the Sophomores, the Lightweights posted one of the most successful seasons in recent history. In the fall, the Varsity Eight humiliated all collegiate crews at the Head of the Charles, finishing second, only six seconds behind the Lightweight National Team. At the Princeton Chase on Lake Carnegie, Princeton was able to repeat their Charles performance by winning both the fours and the eights races, even without perennial strongman and lover Kevin Cotter ’96.

Coach Joe Murtaugh’s goal was to continue such dominance in the Spring, and that is exactly what hap-pened. The first eight went undefeated going into Eastern Sprints, the league championship event, repeating last sea-son’s HYP victory at Yale on Lake Carnegie. At Sprints, Harvard rowed a strong race and Yale just edged out the Tigers at the end, resulting in a third-place finish for the Varsity boat. This served to fuel the fires for the National Championships two weeks later, where the team hoped to repeat their previous Championship.

Review of the 1995 Crew YearThe Junior Varsity boat was the real shocker at

Sprints. Led by sophomore John Bartuez, the crew raced through several disappointing finishes, losing to Navy, Cornell, and Yale. Yet, with the tenacity and desire of a prize fighter, all nine of the rowers stepped up after each loss to confront their destiny Eastern Sprints Gold. At the Sprints, the JV boat showed their courage by forcing their way through Harvard to win by four seconds, winning the coveted Cornell Trophy,. Their win was enhanced by a successful performance from the Freshman boat as well. Their season was flawless, as they went undefeated in the regular season. They also came ready to Sprints, winning by a length over the field. These three races added up to a Jope Cup victory for the entire team at Sprints, the spoil of overall lightweight supremacy in the premier league in rowing.

At the end-of-the-year banquet, awards were given out to three seniors. Alex Horner won the Gordon Sikes medal for doing the most for Princeton Crew, Rod Mathey claimed the Bayard Reed award for most improvement, and Geordie Hebard snatched the Good Guy award for obvious reasons. Greg Hughes ’96 and Matt Lawson ’96 were elected co-captains for the upcoming 1995-1996 season.

1995 BRIC-A-BRAC



VARSITYGoldthwait Cup


Wood-Hammond CupJ.McCrary ’95 (Cox), G.Hughes ’96 (Stroke), D.Digilio ’96, K.Cotter ’96, A.Horner ’95, P.Streber ’96, B.Holland ’95, M.Lawson ’96, R.Mathey ’95

JUNIOR VARSITYE.A.R.C. Sprint Champs

Cornell TrophyG.Hebard ’95, T.Fernandez }97, P.Rassam ’97, C.Pettker ’95, D.Guenther ’95, J.Remley ’95, A.Cabeza ’97, J.Bartucz ’97 (Stroke), A.Yee ’95Coach J.Murtaugh

THIRD VARSITYS.Ryan ’97 (Cox), M.Murphy ’95 (Stroke), A.Hermosilla ’97, P.Escaravage ’96, A.Paradis ’96, H.Watkin ’95, I.Sacks ’97, A.Conner ’97, J.Radice ’97



1995 LIGHTWEIGHT FRESHMEN – Class of 1998

FIRST FRESHMENUNDEFEATED

Eastern Sprints ChampionsK. Asker, E.S.Kent-Uritam, R.S.Arastu, R.H.Milam, D.W.lawson, M.Koehler, S.Young, J.S.Galvin (Stroke), Z.R.Potter (Cox), Dan Allan (Coach)

SECOND FRESHMEN

T.C.Doggett (Cox), W.B.Nance (Stroke), J.A.Conway, A.G.Elliott, S.G.Carcagno, G.A.Miller, J.Kreimer, E.Bates, N.A.Webster




VARSITY 8National Champions


Eisenberg CupCox: Sarah Hull 4: Stephanie Gregg8: Lianne Bennion 3: Sarah Ryerson7: Danika Harris 2: Sarah Johnston6: Wendy Holding (Capt.) 1: Allison Schiffman5: Cherylyn Brandt

SECOND VARSITY 8

Eastern Sprints ChampionsCox: Tess Finnegan 4: Leslie Gewin8: Rebecca Barker 3: Rebecca Greene7: Betsy Murphy 2: Ivy Schlesinger6: Eliza Hitz 1: Heather Harnly5: Joanna Schmidt

FIRST NOVICE 8—Class of 1998

Eastern Sprints ChampionsCox: Lauren Averett 4: Jordan Gutcher8: Sara Gaughan 3: Stephanie Jones7: Kira Gnesdiloff 2: Katherine Hays6: Wendy Levash 1: Elizabeth Dawson5: Ashley McCowen

TEAM PHOTO1995 Eastern Sprints



25th Reunion RowBy Bruce R. Millman ‘70

During our 25th reunion, a group of former light-weights and heavyweights wanted to spend some time rowing together on a beautiful morning, as we had so often before. We formed two boats, both composites of lights and heavies. I believe that everyone who had rowed senior year and attended the reunion participated.

It took only a few strokes for everyone to get used to the newfangled equipment—everyone except me, that is. As coxswain, I was always engaged in banter with the stroke; I could not get used to the fact that everything I whispered was now carried electronically to everyone in the boat. One of my strengths had been the ability to make my voice carry over the din. Due to microphone and speakers, my shouting was even less appreciated than it was 25 years ago!

Once we were comfortable with the boat and could row reasonably well together, we took several series of power strokes at the ripe old pace of about 22. Stroke Skip Klar-quist kept asking about the stroke; he wasn’t looking for speed, but was trying to keep it down so everyone would manage without exhaustion or heart failure!

We paddled down to the top of the race course, and sat there a while enjoying the view and recalling old triumphs and humiliations. Our heavyweights broke a longstanding course record there in our last home race in 1970. What a special moment! That team had contributed several oarsmen and cox to the Union Boat Club U.S. National

Champion 4+ and 8+ in the summer of 1969. They were coached that summer by Steve Gladstone, who had been our freshman coach and was by then coaching the Har-vard lightweights. They went on to represent the United States in the World Championships later that summer. The lightweights also had one of their best seasons in years.

We were on a very tight schedule to get to our class picture (just as in our undergraduate years when it was a struggle to get to Commons or the clubs in time to get din-ner), so we turned around and headed home. We took an obligatory power 20 under the bridge and across the lake in front of the boathouse, to the cheers of family members. When we got back, we posed for pictures, struggled to pull the shells out of the water without hurting our backs, and went up to shower. That, too was a nostalgic experience. We remarked on the fact that we had hot water that day, recalling how often there was none left by the time we got back from practice.

Fifteen years ago, at our 10th reunion, we raced the Varsity heavies (for 500 meters?!) and beat them by more than a boat length. We couldn’t do that today, but, hey, we were damn good! And we formed powerful and enduring friendships which we all cherish together with our memories.

Princeton Rowing NotesSummer 1995

1995 WOMEN’S CREW

EAWRC and IRA NATIONAL

CHAMPIONSLori Dauphiny (Coach), Sarah Hull ’95, Dan Roock ’81 (Coach), Meg Owen ’95 (Capt.), Wendy Holding ’95 (Capt.), Tess Finnegan ’95, Alyssa Nelson ’95, Lianne Bennion Nelson ’95, Krista Parris ’95, Rebecca Barker ’95, Allison Schiffman ’95, Kim Sladkin ’95, Danika Harris ’95



SENIOR CLASSCarnegie Cup

Childs CupNavy Trophy

Standing: M.Rutherford ’96 (Capt.), S.Markle ’96, C.Farmer ’96, T.DeGavre ’96, C.Neidre ’96, R.Hall ’96, D.Khoury ’96, J.Horner ’96Front Row: J.Steinman ’96, A.Sawyer ’96, S.Lamb ’96

I.R.A. CHAMPS— VARSITY CHALLENGE CUP

Back Row: C.Ahrens ’98, M.Crotty ’98, D.Khoury ’96 (Cox), C.Farmer ’96, R.Hall ’96, M.Teti (Coach),Front Row: C.Jordan (Coach), T.Richter ’97, M.Crooks ’98, T.Carson ’97, S.Markle ’96


G.P.Adamson (Cox), T.R.Welsh, B.C.Cotter, M.T.Carlson, J.R.Flickinger, A.H.B.Monk, K.W.O’Neil, J.R.Liddell, D.S.Newman, M.Teti (Coach)



Heavyweight CrewThe heavyweight crew team’s season ended in vic-

tory by winning the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships. In the process they set a course record of 5 minutes, 29.6 seconds on the Cooper River in Pennsauken, New Jersey. They did it with an all-out sprint with 700 meters to go, coming from behind Penn and Washington. The boat included coxswain Dave Khoury, Martin Crotty, Colin Farmer, Bob Hill, Tim Richter, Mor-gan Crooks, Ted Carson, Steve Markle, and stroke Chris Ahrens. The team went on to win the National Collegiate Championships in Cincinnati.

The victory avenged earlier losses at Eastern Sprints and to Ivy League competitors Harvard and Brown. Throughout the year, Princeton had crushed Yale and Cornell and narrowly defeated Penn by a four tenths of a second margin. Princeton also defeated Columbia, con-tinuing a 33-year winning streak dating back to John F. Kennedy’s term in the White House and before Princeton went co-ed.

The other boats also had very successful seasons. The second varsity and freshmen boats also won national championships. The freshman boat even pulled off a small upset against Brown by having a time faster than both the Princeton and Brown first varsity boats.

The success in this season was due in large part to the senior leadership of one of the finest classes ever. Their first at Eastern Sprints last year gave them experience and high expectations going into the season. The seniors whom coach Curtis Jordan could count on included Colin Farmer, who rowed with sophomore Marty Crotty on a national B team at the Nations Cup in Holland last sum-mer. Other seniors who contributed were Matt Rutherford, Bob Hall, Chris Neidre, Tim DeGavre, and Sean Lamb. The future of the heavyweight crew looks solid as sopho-more Chris Ahrens stroked a boat as a freshman to a gold medal at the World Championships in Finland last year.

The successes of the season leave the crew with many memories and hopes for the future.

Lightweight CrewThe class of 1996 had done it all: won the fall head

races, had an undefeated season, and won a national cham-pionship in 1994. The only thing they hadn’t done was win Eastern Sprints. This item was clearly the focus of the season, and the crew made sure the rest of the league got the message.

After cruising through the fall head races, the Var-sity put its stamp on the regular spring season, crushing

opponents by wide margins and setting a Lake Carnegie course record against Cornell. After polishing off another undefeated season, the Varsity approached Sprints with unparalleled focus. That focus paid off with an open-water victory in Worcester. The second varsity did the same, and helped bring the Jope Cup Overall Points Trophy to Old Nassau. Two weeks later at the IRA, Harvard pulled out all the stops and threw everything it had at the Princeton Varsity. The two crews swapped the lead multiple times, and stroke ratings neared 50 as the crews approached the line. The finish was too close to call, and a photo-finish was necessary to confirm Princeton as the .02 second victor and new course-record holder.

Women’s CrewIn recent years, the women’s varsity crew has been

very successful. This year’s team was set to the task of defending its title as 1995 Collegiate Nationals Champion and to repeat as winner of the Eastern Sprints. Lacking individual stars, the team depended on the leadership of head coach Dan Roock ’81, team unity, peak physical conditioning and good stamina to carry it through the season. The class of ’96, which produced one of the highest number of rowers ever for the program stepped up to dominate. The team was led by senior co-captains Cherylyn Brandt, who was a consistently solid standout, and Ivy Schlesinger. The class of ’99 also brought power to freshmen boats by being tough, dynamic, and fast, and by rowing well.

While opening the year with a disappointing loss against Brown, ending a seven-year regular-season win-ning streak at Lake Carnegie, they went on to sweep by Rutgers and Columbia, winning the first varsity race by 27 seconds. They continued dominating the Ivy League, winning against Radcliffe, Cornell, and Yale. The first varsity boat ended the regular season with a bang, defeat-ing Dartmouth by 12 seconds and Penn by 14 seconds on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Massachusetts.

The success of the women’s crew carried on to Eastern Sprints as they won their fourth straight overall Eastern Sprints title in New Preston, Connecticut. The title was the result of winning five of the six races, despite a loss by the first varsity boat to Brown.

1996 BRIC-A-BRAC




JUNIOR VARSITYGlendon Trophy

Back Row: C.Bordeau ’98, C.Niedre ’96, T.Carson ’97, S.Kammann ’98, J.Horner ’96 (Cox)Front Row: A.Sawyer ’96, M.Brekken ’97, S.Lamb ’96, M.Rutherford ’96

THIRD VARSITYJ.P.Horner ’96, ?, J.L.Steinman ’96, ?, M.J.W.Anderson ’97, J.R.Slocum ’98, R.A.McInturff ’98, K.W.O’Connell ’97 (Stroke), A.J.Shroff ’98 (Cox)






Joseph Wright CupEastern Sprints Champions

IRA ChampionsBack Row: J.Murtaugh, Coach, M.Lawson ’96, K.Cotter ’96, D.Digilio ’96, G.Hughes ’96Front Row: S.Wisenbaker ’98, T.Fernandez ’97, J.McCrary ’96, P.Streber ’96, D.Larson ’98

JUNIOR VARSITYUNDEFEATED

Cornell TrophyBack Row: J.Murtaugh, Coach, S.Carcagno ’98, A.Cabeza ’97, J.Galvin ’98, D.Frankel ’97Front Row: A.Hermosilla ’97, Z.Potter ’98, A.Conner ’97, R.Milam ’98, R.Arastu ’98




CELEBRATION IN WORCESTER

Featuring the Cornell Trophy Plaque for JV Lwt Sprints Winners;

the three-handled Jope Cup for Men’s Lwt Total Points; and the Joseph Wright Trophy for Lwt

Sprints 8+ Champions


A.Salamini (Cox), D.Provan (Stroke), C.Blum, J.Liddell, D.McLean, J.Lawson, E.Chadd, S.Perkins, B.McEvoy

SECOND FRESHMEN

—Class of 1999J.Schwartz (Cox), J.Cieslak (Stroke), D.Lucas, A.Lipski, O.Mallick, K.Moriarty, M.Ahart, N.Lee, W.Golden



By Joe Murtaugh

In 1985, Princeton sent varsity heavyweight and lightweight eights and fours to the Henley Royal Regatta following Sprints and IRA championships, respectively. Eleven years later, the Tiger men’s teams spring perfor-mances resulted a slightly larger invasion of British soil by Garden State crews.

As Curtis Jordan and Mike Teti were busy guiding the men’s Olympic lightweight straight four to a bronze medal, the heavyweight varsity and second varsity were led to England by Dan Roock and Dan Allen. This turned out to be one of the last official Princeton duties for both, as the former has embarked on a new career with the Cornell heavyweight squad, and the latter now guides the Georgetown heavyweight freshmen.

The squad was lodged in two separate houses, the heavyweights staying in a home built in 1060 complete with a resident ghost, while the lightweights stayed in slightly newer but no less impressive digs hosted by a family who prepared meals for us which were clearly designed to prevent us from remaining lightweights.

Due to the late arrival of the boat trailer from the states which carried two of our shells, we had to scramble a bit initially to rotate three crews through one hull leased from Oxford. The lightweights raced well, but captured no mugs at the Marlowe Regatta. At Reading the next week, the heavyweight varsity won the open eights, while the spare pair took the senior-pair-without championship. Both the lightweights and heavyweight 2v fell to eventual winner Union Boat Club in Senior One event.

The mild temperatures and relatively flat waters which had served the lightweights in ’94 and the heavyweights in ’95 so well were traded in this year’s Henley for intermittent rain and quite a bit of wind (read: normal English weather). The lightweight varsity, racing in the Ladies Plate, lost to Georgetown’s heavyweight varsity in its opening tilt by a little more than a length, while thc JV heavies lost to a strong Newcastle University crew by slightly smaller margin in their first Temple Cup race. The varsity heavies fared better, defeating Union BC in first round action, but lost to eventual winner Goldie the next time out.

While the river gods did not smile on the Tigers as

broadly in England as they had during the season, I’m quite sure the results on the water did not diminish the richness of the experience which these well-deserving crews took away from this adventure. In particular, I’m proud that all of the 96ers who have made such an impact on the men’s teams since their arrival got a chance to represent Princeton at Henley. Everyone raced hard and proud, worthy of the confidence and support which the PURA so clearly expressed in its sponsorship of this effort.

Princeton Rowing NewsFall 1996

CREWS GET ROYAL TREATMENT IN ENGLAND



FIRST VARSITY1975 Cup


Cox: Audrey McAdams 4: Leslie Gewin8: Cherylyn Brandt (Capt.) 3: Katherine Hays7: Rebecca Greene 2: Allison Schiffman6: Sarah Ryerson 1: Heather Harnly5: Stephanie Gregg


Cox: Lauren Averett’98 4: Eliza Hitz ’968: Ivy Schlesinger (Capt.)’96 3: Joanna Schmidt ’977: Jorey Else ’96 2: Katherine Scott ’986: Ashley McCowen ’98 1: Betsy Murphy ’965: Sara Gaughan ’98


Eastern Sprints ChampionsCox: Eli Sroka 4: Tamara Kavander8: Betsy Spigel 3: Ginger Ellsworth7: Emily Atwood 2: Beth Eiseman6: Stefanie Zweibel 1: Abigail Cromwell5: Whitney Burrell

SECOND VARSITYIn New Uniforms At Eastern Sprints

Averett, Scott, Else, Murphy, Gaughan, Hitz,



PRINCETON CHASEThe Princeton 3-Mile Chase is an invitational head race hosted by the Princeton University crew coaching staff for varsity col-legiate crews. Although it is called a 3-Mile Chase, the actual distance is 2-3/4 miles.

The start of the race is the normal finish line at the Kingston end of Lake Carnegie. The finish is just before the Washington Road bridge. Spectators may watch the racing from the start located just off Route 27 (Nassau Street ) at the Kingston end of the lake, the Harrison Street bridge or the finish at the Washington Road bridge located near the boathouse.

Since “Head of the Rivers” races necessarily take place on skinny rivers, they are very different from collegiate meets or international championships, which gener ally take place on lakes where the boats line up across and start at the same time. Head races are several miles long, round corners and pass through bridges, which again is very different from a straight 2,000 meter (approximately 1¼ miles) course. Head boats compete against each other indirectly by racing a clock. They line up in order according to numbers on the bow and start at discreet intervals — usually about 15 seconds.

Head races are sponsored in the fall, when long endurance workouts are a key part of a full-year training program geared toward the 2,000 meter sprints. A head race takes about 15 to 20+ minutes, (versus 6+ minutes for the shorter spring and summer races) providing a continuous pageant of flashing blades and team colors to help supporters cheer for their team.

Volunteer members of the Carnegie Lake Rowing Association are helping the Princeton University coaching staff by organiz-ing and operating this regatta.

Princeton Crews Chased But Not CaughtBy Chip Davis

On October 25 the Princeton 3 Mile Chase offered a preview of the what the spring collegiate racing season will bring: more fast Princeton crews.

Tiger crews won the heavyweight and lightweight eights races on both the men’s and women’s sides as well as the men’s light-weight four and co-ed open small boat events. Princeton also placed fours in the top five of every category, while Virginia proved to be the deepest women’s squad after taking five of the top seven places in the women’s four.

Hosts Princeton University and the Carnegie Lakers organize the late fall invitational as a last chance for varsity Eastern Sprints crews to size up each other before winter training begins. Non -Sprints programs are invited as space in the boat trailer lot allows.

“This has become the premier colle giate race in the fall,” said Columbia women’s coach Mike Zimmer. “I think this is the one everybody tries to have a good performance at, more so than the Charles and Schuylkill or anything like that. This is certainly the place you tend to see crews start to show some of what they have.”

Racing at the Chase is in fours and eights and most athletes double up, while a handful of others compete in small boats. Picnics and polite conversa tion among student-athletes and parents set the tone on shore, as, on the water, crews race their rivals from both other schools and their own since most squads enter multiple boats in each event.

“I think a lot of what we try to do in this regatta is not only win when we have a chance to win, but to give everybody in the squad a chance to compete at the same time,” said Princeton heavyweight men’s coach Curtis Jordan. “It’s unique compared to any other regatta. It’s a way of saying ‘How deep are you? How strong are you? How much of a team are you?”

Independent Rowing News

Fall 1997

2000 Competitor CountEvent Class Boats Per Boat Men Women

1 MH8 18 9 1622 ML4 26 5 1303 WO8 38 9 3424 MH4 21 5 1055 M Small 16 30 W Small 25 446 ML8 22 9 1987 WO4 38 5 190 ______________________________Totals 204 625 576

Total Participants 1201

Colleges RepresentedBoston UniversityColumbiaCornellDartmouthFordhamGeorgetownGeorge WashingtonHarvardMiamiMichigan StatePennsylvania

PrincetonRutgersTempleVillanovaVirginiaYale


1997 HEAVYWEIGHT CREWSVARSITY

Atlanta CupBergschneider Trophy


Compton CupNavy Trophy

Rowe CupWorcester Bowl

1921 Crew TrophyEastern Sprints Champions

Back Row: T.Richter ’97, M.Carlson ’99, M.Crotty ’98, CAhrens ’98, C.Jordan (Coach)Front Row: M.Crooks ’98, T.Carson ’97 (Capt.), S.Brennan ’98, J.Flickinger ’99, G.Adamson ’99 (Cox)

First perfect season in 116 years!

JUNIOR VARSITYGlendon Trophy

K.O’Neil ’99, T.Welsh ’99, C.Bordeau ’98, S.Kammann ’98, C.Jordan (Coach), D.Newman ’99, J.Slocum ’98, M.Anderson ’97, A.Monk ’00, A.Shroff ’98 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITYR.M.Shah ’00 (Cox), D.W.Lawson ’98 (Stroke), S.C.Craig ’98, K.W.O’Connell ’97, M.R.Hurley ’97, D.V.Kemp ’00, ?, D.M.Wilson ’00, T.W.Schmidt ’99



Heavyweight Crew

Picture nine very large men clad only in skin-tight, shiny-orange clothing, standing before five thousand screaming onlookers; now picture these same men happy about this whole scenario. On May 9th, the Princeton first and second varsity heavyweight crews dominated their respective fields to win the Eastern Sprints and earn the Rowe Cup, awarded for overall rowing supremacy, for the third consecutive year. The varsity completed the first undefeated sesason since 1881!

How do you describe the incredible feeling on that medal stand, having just beaten fifteen of the best crews in the country? Each member of Princeton heavyweight crew had endured the abuse of two Olympic coaches, Curtis Jordan and Mike Teti, with the implicit trust that winning Sprints would make it worthwhile; they were right.

Picture this committed team of twenty arriving at the boathouse in September, knowing that they were regarded by the rowing community as the team to beat. Imagine them training intensely, often twice daily, in boats and on ergometers through October, only to have their chance to show off their work denied with the cancellation of the Head of the Charles Regatta. Back to Princeton, then, for more training, more pain to ensure victory in both the varsity eights and fours races at the Princeton Chase, this year’s premier fall head race. Pretty good fall, where do we go from here? Internalize the already too-competitive nature of the team; confine them to competition against themselves and each other on ergs and weights for the entire winter and see what happens. Two months later, after one brief trip to Tampa, a few injuries, some allega-tions of cult activity, and many personal bests, the team returned to the water to prepare for their best season of racing ever. Winter training was hard; the month of water training that preceded the first race against Navy set a new standard of difficulty. Lead by captain Ted Carson, the team thus entered the racing season ready for whatever the competition could throw at it. Victories against Navy, Rutgers, Penn, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Yale, and Brown made the varsity the favorites for Sprints; after a few tough losses everyone except the members of Princeton crew counted the second boat out.

So we return to the scene at Sprints, where the sec-ond varsity had just avenged its losses of the dual season to win in the race of its life and the varsity stood proudly on the medal dock, their domination nearly complete. Add to this the freshman eight of Mike Teti, winning silver, and the third varsity; finally, and most importantly, include the coaches, Curtis Jordan and Mike Teti. Meet your Rowe

Cup champions, Princeton Heavyweight Crew.

Lightweight CrewAfter graduating 6 seniors and returning only 2

members of the 1996 Varsity, a hungry group of sopho-mores and juniors was ready to prove themselves in 1997. The first test was rained out, as the Head of the Charles was cancelled for the first time in the regatta’s history.

The crew quickly erased any beliefs by the rest of the league that traduation had taken a heavy toll on boat speed, as victories came easily over the first four races of the season. At the H-Y-P race in Derby, Conn., Princeton mounted a blazing last 500 meters to plow through Yale and miss beating Harvard by only 0.5 seconds. Two weeks later at Eastern Sprints, the crew won their heat, but had to settle for a bonze behind Harvard and Yale. The second varsity had to settle for a silver medal behind Yale. The last race of the season was the IRA, where Princeton met Harvard in the preliminary heat. After beating Harvard in the morning, hopes for the afternoon’s final were high. However, Harvard repeated it’s Sprints performance and Princeton reluctantly settled for another bronze. A bitter taste in their mouths, the lightweights looked forward to 1998 to re-establish Princeton’s winning ways.

1997 BRIC-A-BRAC

Women’s CrewThe Princeton women began the season with a bitter

taste lingering from the prior season’s loss to Brown, a longstanding rival. Having graduated all but three mem-bers of the varsity boat from ’96 (Sarah Ryerson, Leslie Gewin, and Katherine Hays), the Tigers certainly had their work cut out for them. Though the women’s team was sad to lose coach Dan Roock at the end of ’96, for-mer novice coach Lori Dauphiny easily stepped into her new role and wasted no time preparing this young crew for the spring showdown. Beginning in September, the intensity so familiar to Princeton rowing was turned up a few notches with the understanding that Brown had lost only a few members of their championship team from ’96.

This year was a hallmark for women’s rowing across the country. Due to Title IX, several state universities had dramatically increased funding for their women’s crew teams. So along with the usual competitors like Brown, Harvard, and Yale, the University of Virginia emerged as a threat after siphoning away many talented freshmen with tantalizing scholarships. The women suddenly real-ized the ramifications of Title IX when the UVA Varsity


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VARSITYPlatt Trophy

Wood-Hammond CupA.Salamini ’99 (Cox), J.Bartucz ’97 (Stroke), S.Carcagno ’98, D.Stout ’99, R.Milam ’98, J.Lawson ’99, D.McLean ’99, J.Liddell ’99, S.Wisenbaker ’98

JUNIOR VARSITYS.Ryan ’97 (Cox), D.Provan ’99 (Stroke), A.Cabeza ’97, S.Perkins ’99, C.Blum ’99, T.Fernandez ’97, W.Golden ’99, R.Arastu ’98, I.Sachs ’97

THIRD VARSITYJ.Schwartz ’99 (Cox), D.Frankel ’98 (Stroke), A.Hermosilla ’97, J.Radice ’97, M.Ahart ’99, S.Kim ’98, E.Chadd ’99, K.Askar ’98, B.McEvoy ’99



boat claimed victory at the Princeton Chase during the fall. The Tigers quickly realized that Brown was not the only threat for the spring. Unfortunately, the Head of the Charles was cancelled due to flooding that year so the women carried their Chase defeat all through the winter.

Although winter training and Tampa were ap-proached with seriousness, the Tigers mixed in some fun, and many were surprised with how quickly their best erg scores continued to drop. Though there were many big shoes to fill, several rowers stepped up to the plate providing a strong pool for both the varsity and junior varsity teams.

As usual, the season began with the dual against Brown. The year’s hard work finally paid off as Princeton aggressively advanced through their varsity, winning by a margin of 3 seconds. The victory was a tremendous one for the Tigers since the season opener had traditionally set the tone for the rest of the season. However, their work was far from over. Several injuries and illnesses later, Princeton faced UVA with determination to avenge the earlier loss. Unfortunately, after a heated start, Virginia pulled ahead during the last 500 meters to win. This loss tainted an otherwise victorious regular season. Princeton repeated their victory over Brown at Eastern Sprints to claim first place despite Katherine Hays’ heat exhaustion from the prelims.

The women’s team headed out to Sacramento, CA

for the first annual NCAA Championship. The field was extremely competitive with Brown, UVA, and the pow-erhouse Univ. of Washington. Though Princeton’s varsity boat finished behind University of Washington, they suc-cessfully fended off Brown and finished ahead of UVA in both the prelims and finals. The National Championship eluded the varsity Tigers, but they posted a very successful season avenging tough losses against Brown and UVA.

The tremendous success of the junior varsity team attests to the impressive depth of the women’s crew team. Although they posted one loss during the regular season to Yale, which had a surprising number of varsity rowers in their JV, no one else could touch the Tigers. They ended the season with victories at both Eastern Sprints and the NCAA Championship.

Overall, 1997 was a year that increased the competi-tion for women’s rowing nationwide. Princeton women’s crew proved that they were ready for this challenge.

Leslie Gewin


“To a non-rower, spending countless hours training and racing on Lake Carnegie may seem like a foolish way to spend time. To the dedicated athlete, though, rowing at Princeton marks the highlight of one’s college years. Every minute spent at the boat-house and on the lake is an opportunity to test your physical limits and work toward expanding them. Along with your team-mates, you train to be the best. That common goal promotes a team unity that seems unmatched in any other sport. Combining this team unity and determination with the finest coaches, equipment and training facilities leaves no doubt that every Princeton boat always has what it takes to win on race day. For this reason, the Princeton crew is one of the nation’s best, and I’m proud to be a part of it.”

Tom Fernandez ’97Captain, Lightweight Crew

“For me, the appeal of crew comes from the sport’s unique blend of individual determination and teamwork. On a personal level, rowing provides the perfect opportunity for me to explore what I am capable of achieving and then to challenge my per-formance again day after day. Although workouts leave my body physically exhausted, I feel more alive walking back to campus after practice than at any other moment. The exciting part, however, comes when the efforts of nine individuals are fused into a single unit during racing season. The tremendous energy that’s focused toward the common goal transforms each boat into something greater than the sum of its parts. It forms the foundation that outlasts our time at the boathouse.”

Leslie Gewin ’97Co-Captain, Women’s Crew

“I still consider our freshman year victory at Eastern Springs to be one of the happiest days of my life. From that moment on, the crew program has defined my Princeton experience. The coaching and facilities are world-class. Combined with the daily dedication and determination of each athlete, the result is a tightly-knit group, all with a common goal — success.”

Sarah Ryerson ’97Co-Captain, Women’s Crew


1997 WOMEN’S OPEN CREWSVARSITY

1975 Cup1984 Point Trpohy

Content CupEisenberg CupWilling Trophy

L.Dauphiny (Coach), E.Sroka ’97 (Cox), B.Spigel ’99, S.Gaughn ’98, L.Gewin ’97 (Co-Capt.), S.Ryerson ’97 (Co-Capt.), S.Zwiebel ’99, W.Levash ’98, K.Scott ’97, K.Hays ’98

JUNIOR VARSITYY.Sung ’97 (Cox), S.Jones ’98, J.Schmidt ’97, A.McCowen ’98, C.Wiegand ’97, K.Gnesdiloff ’98, A.Cromwell ’99, E.Jones ’99, M.Clark ’98

NOVICE CREW—Class of 2000

K.Williams (Cox), L.Pitney, B.Cazel, M.Hamm, A.Leigh, K.Bartges, K.Bartholdson, T.McCarthy, J.Bucher


L.Cakmak (Cox), A.Long, E.Gottschall, S.Cook, A.Oliver ’99, C.Hruska, K.Chirco, H.Harris, S.D’Sullivan




FOUR WITH COXEastern Sprints Champions

Heather Daley ’99, Mikaela Chilstrom ’99, Paige Terrell ’97, Tamara Kavander ’99, Julie Rath ’99 (Cox)

LIGHTWEIGHT WOMEN’S FIRST

RACEat Head of the Charles Regatta

October 19, 1997Back Row: Tamara Kavander ’99, Betsy Williams ’98, Joy Bucher ’00, Alison Long ’00Front Row: Lisa Cakmak ’00 (Cox), Sarah O’Sullivan ’00, Halle Markus ’99, Beth Eiseman ’99, Emily Gottshall ’00

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FIRST HEAVYWEIGHT

P.H.Teti, A.R.Blair-Stanek, M.P.Abel, C.J.L.Burkmar, G.W.Lee, T.A.Herschmiller, D.C.Bordeau, K.M.Brown (Stroke), A.Shah (Cox)

FIRST LIGHTWEIGHT

P.Chiang (Cox), S.O’Sullivan (Stroke), W.Fedyna, J.Moore, D.Kaminstein, S.Ahmad, J.DiNorcia, G.Revelle, A.Schweikert

SECOND LIGHTWEIGHT

K.Meyer (Cox), B.Fujito (Stroke), J.Wilmer, A.Baine, S. Taylor, D.Kraus, M.Ladra, E.Carlone, E.Boxyogit



COACHES

Lori DauphinyHead CoachWomen’s Open Crew

Lori Dauphiny became head coach of women’s open crew at Princeton in 1996 after leading the Tiger novices to a 44-4 record in her first four seasons. Under Dauphiny, Princeton has participated in four NCAA championships. The 1999 Mid-Atlantic Coach of the Year, Dauphiny led the Tigers to a sixth-place finish in the NCAA championships last year.

Dauphiny was named head coach of women’s crew at the conclusion of the 1996 season after leading the novice program to five straight Eastern sprints titles. She was named EAWRC novice Coach of the Year in 1993 and 1994 and varsity Coach of the Year in 1997. Prior to her arrival at Princeton, Dauphiny spent two years at Columbia coaching the women’s novice crew.

A 1985 graduate of Washington, she enjoyed an outstanding collegiate career that included a second-place finish at the 1994 National Collegiate Rowing Championships. She also was a three-time winner at the Pac-10 Conference championships, the West Coast’s equivalent of the Eastern sprints. Dauphiny twice won gold medals for the U.S. at the Canadian Henley.

Dauphiny spent the summers since 1997 working as a coach with the U.S. national team and recently coached the gold medal lightweight women’s pair at the 1999 World Championships.

Heather SmithHead CoachWomen’s Lightweight Crew

Heather Smith was named the first coach of women’s lightweight crew at Princeton in April of 1997. She has led the Tigers to a 12-2 record and two first-place finishes at Eastern sprints. Smith led the Tigers to the program’s first national championship in 1999 with a first-place finish at the IRA championship. Her team repeated as national champions in 2000 in only her third year as coach.

Smith came to Princeton from Columbia, where she served as novice coach and a physical education instructor. Prior to her year at Columbia, Smith was an intern coach at Princeton under former women’s coach Dan Roock and current women’s open coach Lori Dauphiny. She has also coached at Wisconsin, where she was active in the development of the lightweight program.

A 1992 graduate of Trinity, Smith was a three-year varsity rower and two-time captain before earning a bachelor’s degree in Russian and Soviet studies and the school’s outstanding scholar-athlete award. She also holds a master’s in public policy from Trinity.


1998 MEN’S CREWS

VARSITY HEAVIES & LIGHTSI.R.A. Champions with Ten Eyck Trophy

I.R.A. CHAMPIONSVarsity Challenge Cup

G.Adamson ’99, C.Ahrens ’98, M.Crotty ’98, M.Adams ’01, S.Brennan ’98, T.Welsh ’99, J.Flickinger ’99, M.Crooks ’98, P.Teti ’00, Curtis Jordan (Coach)

‘THE PERFECT SEASON’

2nd Varsity with Varsity Challenge Cup

A.Shroff ’98 (Cox), S.Kammann ’98, M.Carlson ’99, T.Herschmiller ’00, C.W..Bordeau ’98 (Capt.), A.Monk ’99, K.O’Neil ’99, K.Brown ’00, D.Newman ’99, Coach Curtis Jordan


Heavyweight MenHeading into the season, Head Coach Curtis Jordan

was well aware of the quality of his team, “This was the deepest talent-pool I’ve ever had, and the complication of trying to pick eight guys was predicted and came true.” Jordan managed to identify a general group of personnel that produced a “reliable lineup” by the Harvard race. Undefeated through the first three weeks of the season, the heavyweights fell to the Crimson in horrific Charles conditions. The regular season highlights for the first varsity came the week after the Harvard race when they defeated Yale in the Carnegie Cup. Yale had been seeded first in the league at that point, but the Tigers knocked them down a few notches when they handed the Elis an eleven second loss. The next weekend marked another feat when the varsity set a course record for Lake Carnegie with a time of 5:31.4 during their eight second win over Brown. Through all of this, the second varsity cruised through its regular season, as no challenger was able to even achieve overlap with the 2V.

It was virtually all Princeton at the 1998 EARC Sprints as the Tigers dominated race day like no other crew has in recent history. The Tiger men’s team (lightweight and heavyweight) won every race at Sunday’s Sprints save the first varsity heavyweight race. Under first year coach Greg Hughes ’96, an impressive first freshman won their race by 4 seconds. Winning by a similar margin, the 2V continued its perfect season and Sean Kamman ’98 and Captain Christopher Bordeau ’98 completed their Sprints careers as they collected their third gold medal in the second varsity event.

While the 1V was not able to make it a “perfect” day at Sprints with their third place finish, they proved them-selves to be the best heavyweight men’s crew in the nation at IRA. There, they defeated the University of Washing-ton and the University of California and decimated the Eastern Sprints champion, Penn, by 7.5 seconds—a more convincing win than Penn’s 1.3 second margin of victory over the Tigers at Sprints. The Tigers won the Ten Eyck Trophy for overall supremacy.

For Jordan and his team, the IRA/National Regatta

Lightweight Men“I’m as proud of this group of guys as I have been of

any team I’ve coached.” Coming from Joe Murtaugh, who has coached a lot of great guys and great teams, you know it was a good season. A more accurate descriptive word for the lightweight men’s season might be “spectacular.” The Tigers were not challenged in duel races until they faced Harvard and Yale five weeks into the season. The Varsity trailed through the third 500 meters of that race, but came from behind to beat Yale by five seconds (their closest race of the regular season) and Harvard by eight seconds. Their time of 5:38.42 also established a new course record. Murtaugh observed that his crew tended to row from behind, but cited their ability to maintain speed in the second 1,000 meters while other crews faltered.

Two weeks after HYPs, the lightweights traveled to Worcester and dominated at the Sprints. The Tigers won the IV, 2V, 3V, and freshman races for a Jope Cup sweep. The IRA Regatta was the final race of the season where the Tigers handled a challenge from Columbia to win the national championship. Princeton will most certainly be the rest of the league’s target for the 1998/99 racing season as the Tigers lose only two men out of the varsity boat and await the addition of a strong group of freshmen to join the varsity squad. Murtaugh commented that the Sprints performance was “hard to top and a lot of fun” but said he’ll have to enter the coming season with caution. “It’s harder to repeat than win...you need to redouble your efforts and not take last year for granted.”

The varsity also made a trip to England, where they reached the semi-finals of the Temple Cup in the Henley Royal Regatta.


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proved the depth and quality of the squad. “As good a performance as we had at Sprints, IRA were especially satisfying.” If pictures are worth a thousand words, the photo from the IRA’s should sum up the heavyweight Tiger’s season.


VARSITYCarnegie Cup

Childs Cup1921 Crew Trophy

Navy TrophyG.P.Adamson ’99 (Cox), C.Ahrens ’98 (Stroke), M.Crotty ’98, M.Adams ’01, S.Brennan ’98, T.Welsh ’99, J.Flickinger ’99, M.Crooks ’98, M.Carlson ’99


Eastern Sprints WinnersP.A. Holland (Bow), E.C. Holland, D. Campbell, S. Haskell, M.A. Flickinger, G.G. Thiers, C.W. Perry, D.J.Garbutt, M.A. Patrick (Cox)


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BUTLER AWARDCreated in 1997 by the Trustees of Princeton University

Rowing Association

Inspired by Howard Russell Butler 1976

and

William Allen Butler 1876

Builders of Lake Carnegie and PURA

to honor

Loyal Supporters of Princeton Rowing

Morris A. ‘Kutch’ Mayers ’27

Lon F. Israel, Jr. ’45

THE BERGSCHNEIDER TROPHY

Awarded Annually To

THE IVY LEAGUE MEN’S HEAVYWEIGHT ROWING

CHAMPIONGiven By

The Brown University Sports Foundationand

Marc C. Bergschneider, Brown ’73

Fifth Oar, Brown’s First Ivy League Champion Heavyweight Crew 1972

Patron, Brown University Crew

Trustee, Brown University Sports Foundation

“Aim High to Succeed”

Victor MichalsonCoach of RowingBrown University

1965 — 1981

1997 Princeton1998 Penn1999 Princeton2000 Brown





IRA Varsity Lightweight PlaqueWood-Hammond Cup

Joseph Wright CupTemple Cup Semi-Finalists at Henley

Back Row: J.Liddell ’99, S.Carcagno ’98, J.Lawson ’99, R.Milam ’98, J.Murtaugh (Coach)Front Row: G.Revelle ’00, Z.Brown ’00, D.Kaminstein 00, W.Fedyna ’00, A.Salamini ’99 (Cox)

1998 LIGHTWEIGHT CREW

THIRD VARSITYEastern Sprints Champions

Back Row: M.Ahart ’99, A.Baine ’00, J.DiNorcia ’00, S.O’Sullivan ’00, E.Cobb ’99 (Cox), J.Murtaugh (Coach)Front Row: B.McEvoy ’99, K.Askar ’98, S.Ahmad ’00, E.Chadd ’99

JUNIOR VARSITYEastern Sprints Champions

J.L.Schwartz ’99 (Cox), D.C.Provan ’99, J.S.Galvin 98, S.B.Perkins ’99, D.M.McLean ’99, D.M.Stout ’99, S.N.Wisenbaker ’98, C.G.Blum ’99, W.J.Golden ’99


Lightweight WomenThe lightweight women had a successful season by

any measure, and this was especially true given that this was their first season... ever. It was no easy task to navigate through uncharted water, but Head Coach Heather Smith and Assistant Coach Andrea Thies built the foundation for what looks to be a very strong program. The lightweights opened their season with a loss to Villanova, but were able to learn from their first race and first loss and use it to their advantage the following weekend at the San Diego Crew Classic in California. Eleven crews raced for the title in San Diego and the Tigers came away with a solid second place finish. They beat the same Villanova crew they had fallen to the prior week and lost only to Radcliffe. Con-veniently, they raced Radcliffe the week after and won. The jockeying of these three crews in addition to strong performance from Wisconsin made it easy to identify the top lightweight crews in the country, but hard to pick one dominating crew. Princeton came out as the champion at Sprints where they handled the choppy water at the start better than any other crew, and then proceeded to open their lead. At nationals the women had to adjust to personnel changes, and were slightly off, losing to both Villanova and Radcliffe.

By anyone’s measure a Sprints win constitutes an impressive start. Coach Smith faced many chal-lenges, but she was able to establish a high standard for her athletes even without the automatic internal pressure that exists in a larger team and in an estab-lished program. Now with one season completed, the lightweight women have a standard to live up to. They know what to expect and should have the experience and leadership to reach their goal for the 1998/99 season.


Open WomenFor years it was Princeton, Radcliffe, Washington,

Brown, and maybe Wisconsin or Cornell. Those were the teams that could vie for a championship. Since the passage of Title IX, the number of women’s rowing programs has exploded and crews that were formerly unknown in the rowing world are beginning to make an impact. The Tiger women are a force to reckon with, but they certainly have more quality competition than women’s crew had in the seventies, eighties, and even the early nineties.

Overall, the women’s team had a mixed season. Their regular season was as good as any; they only lost to a physically and technically strong Brown crew in the season opener. The Tigers won easily in their next two races and were not expecting a close race until the end of April when Virginia came up to Lake Carnegie. Virginia, who defeated Princeton in the prior year’s duel race, was favored by many, but Princeton raced a composed 2000 meters to take Virginia by 2.5 seconds.

The women’s next challenge awaited them at Sprints. After the start and settle of the final (about 200m. in) the 1V was tied with Brown, but they then left the sheltered part of the lake and entered a 500m. section of the course that had atrocious conditions. By the time the water had flattened out 500 meters later, the Tigers found themselves in 6th place. They moved on the field afterward, but ended up in 5th place. The Princeton second varsity and first novice found a way to use the condition to their advantage as both crews earned Sprints championships. The varsity four also came away with a silver medal. All in all, the women’s team made a strong showing on Lake Waramaug.

At nationals, the varsity hoped to give a performance that could be a more true indication of their speed, but did not make the final after a tough semi-final draw. However, head coach Lori Dauphiny was glad that her crew was able to come back and win the petite final. “I was really pleased with how they handled themselves…it was difficult but they rallied, fought hard and were courageous, and I was proud of that.” She also noted that their time in the petite final would have made them competitive in the grand final race. The women’s team is losing nine seniors, but it has the EAWRC novice champions and a very strong recruit-ing class to compete for seats on future teams.



1998 WOMEN’S OPEN CREWS

VARSITY1975 Cup

1984 Point TrophyContent Cup

Eisenberg CupE.Sroka ’99 (Cox), S.Jones ’98, S.Gaughn ’98, B.Spigel ’99, W.Levash ’98, E.Jones ’99, K.Bartges ’00, A.McCowen ’98, K.Hays ’98

JUNIOR VARSITYK.Williams ’00 (Cox), S.Zweible ’99, M.Clark ’98, K.Gnesdiloff ’98, L.Pitney ’00, S.Cook ’00, A.Cromwell ’99, B.Eisemen ’99, B.Williams ’98


C.Biesecker (Cox), M.Mudgett, T.Tivorsak, J.Hain, M.Widmann ’99, C.Ibanez, B.Mestl, C.O‘Connor, E.Schielke


A.Arnold (Cox), J.Jarrett (Stroke), B.Datlowe, V.Paige, E.Pearson, A.Ellis, J.Rodger, M.Basile, E.McPherson



By Barbara CartonAnywhere a river runs through the groves of academe,

chances are you’ll find coaches casting a net for female rowers. Women’s crew has expanded to 122 colleges from 74 since 1994-95. With each team seeking about 60 large and muscular ladies, schools can’t fill their boats fast enough.

The University of Louisville in Kentucky, a state with little rowing tradition, is drumming up a team. So is Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Arid climate? No problem. Last week, Arizona State University, in the desert city of Tempe, announced it would introduce row-ing in 2002. The team aims to row on a two-mile stretch of water that the city plans to create by flooding a dry gulch.

The upswing in women’s crew programs doesn’t come from a sudden thrall in the general population. The sport is notoriously grueling, and relatively few high schools have teams.

Rather, female boats are coming on fast because of gender-equity rules. According to Title IX of the Educa-tional Amendments of 1972, colleges must strive to offer athletic slots and scholarships in numbers proportionate to their respective male and female enrollments, or face penalties.

For most big schools, that means a scramble to find women’s sports with teams large enough to offset foot-ball, where the National Collegiate Athletic Association allows 85 scholarships. That’s where crew comes in. Each campus with NCAA Division I women’s rowing can offer 20 full scholarships (or the equivalent in partial scholarships). That’s the most the organization allows for any women’s sport.

“The reason we’re here – everybody knows it – is for gender equity,” says Jim Dietz, the University of Mas-sachusetts rowing coach.

To find competitors, schools are recruiting widely, and sometimes not finding the talent they are after. “There just aren’t enough good athletes for all the money that is out there,” says Joe “Oakie” O’Connor, rowing coach at the University of Miami.

Not everyone sees crew as the best antidote to inequity in college sports. With most teams, seeking prospects 5-feet-10 and taller, weighing between 155 and 210 pounds, little women generally needn’t apply. Kimberly Schuld, director of Play Fair, a nonprofit group that fol-lows sports-equity issues, also says too many Title IX-minded colleges are looking to sports, including crew, that only “well-bred white girls get to play” in high school, shutting out inner-city students. She says squash and horseback riding are also expanding fast on campus.

A lot of men are also discomfited, since for them, crew isn’t recognized by the NCAA and often isn’t even a varsity sport. That often means no scholarships. At the University of Iowa, 49 women rowers have a $440,000 university budget, including 12 scholarships, travel ex-penses, new boats, three paid coaches, a paid rigger to maintain equipment and television in the weight room.

Meanwhile, nonvarsity men have a total university stipend of $1,500. They owe money on secondhand boats and can afford to insure just 60% of the fleet. Their 20-year-old trailer just broke, and their volunteer coach is applying for a salaried job at a start-up women’s program. The team wanted to go to the big Dad Vail Regatta in Philadelphia last weekend but couldn’t afford it.

“It’s a touchy subject,” says Jon Rosmann, a 21-year-old Iowa rower. “I’m glad that the women have been granted varsity status because men are usually at an ad-vantage with football and basketball…. But at the same time, I can’t believe the amount of money they’re getting and the fact that we’re getting barely any.”

One hope-for benefit of the surging female participa-tion is an improved showing on the international circuit, where the U.S. women’s team is recognized as strong but didn’t do as well as was hoped for at the 1996 Olympics.

Summarized fromThe Wall Street Journal

May 14, 1999

There’s Money in Women’s Crew


1998 WOMEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

VARSITYPrinceton’s First Women’s

Lightweight CrewL.Cakmak ’00 (Cox), H.Markus ’99 (Capt.), L.Vaughn ’99, T.Kavander ’99, A.Long ’00, S.O’Sullivan ’00, J.Bucher ’00, L.Bedell ’01, C.Sincerbeaux ’98

NOVICE—Class of 2001

M.Paskoff ’01 (Cox), B.Estridge ’01, N.Branagan ’01, A.Moore ’01, E.Jeong ’99, M.Kitazano ’01, K.Bourke ’00, A.Ellerbee ’01, S.Richman ’01

CELEBRATING EASTERN SPRINTS

Lisa Cakmak ’00 (Cox), Alison Long ’00, Joy Bu-cher ’00, Sarah O’Sullivan ’00, Tamara Kavander ’99, Heather Smith (Coach), Lisa Bedell ’01, Halle Markus ’99 (Captain), Laura Vaughn ’99, Caroline Sincerbeaux ’98



Perhaps it wasn’t foreordained that in the first year of its existence, women’s lightweight crew would go into nationals at the end of May ranked number one, but it wasn’t a huge surprise.

“Because of the success of Princeton’s crew program, expectations were high that the lightweight women would do well,” says head coach Heather Smith, who joined the coaching staff last summer. Once situated in the crew’s tower office at Dillon Gym, Smith set about building a team with current students, some making the move from the open division and many others joining who had no experience in a boat at all.

“My assistant coach, Andrea Theis, took on the nov-ices, and I managed the varsity,” explains Smith, who gradu ated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1992 and who most recently worked at Columbia University as a novice coach and physical edu cation instructor.

With only 19 women in the fledgling program to sup-port a varsity eight and a novice eight, each boat requiring eight rowers and a coxswain, it can get tricky if someone can’t row. And then there’s the weight limit to consider. Lightweights cannot weigh more than 130 pounds on race day. Women in the open division have no restrictions.

“We’ve gone through some pretty precarious moments this year,” admits Smith. “During the winter I was down to seven people for varsity. I pulled up a novice rower. And one of the cox swains from the open division moved to lightweight.”

Training for the lightweight crew is not much different from that for the open division. Athletes row on water for two hours, five or six days a week during the fall, and work out in the boathouse during the winter. Winter workouts include ergometer exercises, weight lifting, and rowing in indoor tanks. The only difference in regimen arises because of the need for the ath letes to maintain weight.

“Is there a problem with eating disorders? That’s the $64,000 ques tion,” Smith allows, “especially for a sport with a weight limit. Fortunately on campus, there is an Eating Disor ders Team, with psychotherapists, an athletic trainer, and a physician, that works with coaches to help us iden tify and take care of the athletes.”

In off-water training, Smith recommends a lower-intensity workout. We’re trying to keep the weight down. We go for a lower heart rate and longer du ration.” Smith says there are limits on how much she can ask of students, but many of the women will put in extra time on their own. “It is elective training and I work out a plan with those

women who want to do supplementary work.”Competition for lightweights during the fall are the

three-mile head races, in volving up to 22 boats. A head race is one in which the crew rows for time; the shells cross the starting line at 10-second intervals. During the spring races, which are 2,000 meters (approximately one and a quarter miles), the crews compete on the water side by side.

Fitting start-up rowers into a well-established power-house such as Prince ton has been less of a problem than might have been expected. Smith can not stress often enough how cooperative the other coaches have been.

“Lori Dauphiny, the coach for the open women’s crew, helped out a lot, especially in the fall. She and I ran prac-tices together for a couple of weeks,” says Smith, who is also quick to praise the men’s coaches as well as Dick Prentke ’67 and David Covin ’91, who have contributed time and money to the program.

Smith, who is engaged to be mar ried this summer, looks forward to the fall. “I need to work on growing my team next year,” she says. “We want to add another varsity eight and a novice four. I also need to figure out the team’s relationship with the open-weight wo men. They have such a long history of success and their own traditions. As we grow, we’ll develop our own.”

Lolly O’BrienPRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY

June 10, 1998

Women’s Lightweight Crew


VARSITY E.A.R.C. Champions

Bergschneider TrophyCarnegie Cup

Childs CupCompton CupNavy Trophy

Worcester Bowl


M.Flickinger ’01, K.O’Neil ’99, J.Flickinger ’99, T.Herschmiller ’00, C.Perry ’01, T.Welsh ’99, G.Adamson ’99 (Capt.), Curtis Jordan (Coach), Not pictured: P.Teti ’00, M.Carlson ’99

JUNIOR VARSITYE.A.R.C. Champions

Glendon TrophyBack Row: D.Kemp’00, D.Bordeau ’00, D.Garbutt ’01, Dan Newman ’99, K. Meyer ’00 (Cox), Curtis Jordan (Coach)Front Row: K.Brown ’00, B.C.Cotter ’00, S.Haskell ’00, D.Campbell ’01

THIRD VARSITYE.A.R.C. Champions

T.Frankel ’00, P.Holland ’01, A.Blair-Stanek ’00, R.Holmes ’01, M.Abel ’00, G.Thiers ’01, C.Burkmar ’00, T.Holland ’01, M.Patrick ’01 (Cox), Curtis Jordan (Coach)


K.Pitney, B.Romanzo, A.Funk, S.Marshall, S.McCormick, A.Fraker, A.Garfall, R.Ristau (Stroke), J.Kimble (Cox)


After an 8-1 record and a national champion-ship in 1998, what could the men’s heavyweight crew do for an encore. More importantly, how would head coach Curtis Jordan fill the boat that had been depleted by graduation. Jordan did what he does best — put his eight top guys in a boat and led them to vic tory. The Tigers went undefeated for the second time in three seasons and picked up their third Eastern Sprints title in the last five years.

If you believe in home water advan tage, then the Tigers had it, with four of their six regular season regattas coming on Lake Carnegie. The 1999 campaign opened with the Tigers hosting the Navy on the final weekend of March. The Mid shipmen were overmatched as Princeton won all five races by an average of 15.91 seconds. It was like instant replay the next weekend as the Tigers swept all five races on the Raritan River in New Brunswick, def eating Rutgers by more than 15 seconds with a winning time of 6:04.8 in the first varsity race.

Despite a strong tailwind and choppy waters, Prince ton kept rolling with victories over Pennsylvania and Columbia on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The Ti gers won the Childs Cup for the sixth con-secutive year with a time of 5:18.2. Seven days later Princeton returned to familiar territory as it hosted Harvard and MIT. The Tigers snapped Harvard’s seven-re gatta winning streak and avenged 1998’s heartbreak-ing loss to capture their 12th Compton Cup with a 7.5 second victory. Princeton crossed the finish line first in three of the five races, with the Crimson winning the two freshman races.

The next week brought Ivy opponents Cornell and Yale to Lake Carnegie. Vic tory was not a problem for the Tigers as they edged Yale by nearly 16 seconds. Princeton also won the second and third varsity events. For the season finale, the Brown Bears came to Prince-ton. Both teams remained even through the first portion of the race, but the Tigers domi nated the middle 1000 meters for an open water lead down the stretch. The orange and Black crossed the finish line one boat length ahead of Brown with a winning time of 5:53.8.

After a week off, the Tigers headed to Worchester,

Mass., for the annual East ern Association of Rowing Colleges Sprints championship. Princeton finished first in all three varsity races, winning the title and its fifth consecutive Rowe Cup for the most overall points. The victory gave Princeton its third-ever Ivy League crown, with the nine members earning first-team All-Ivy hon-ors.

Memorial Day weekend, the weekend that every Princeton rower trains and prepares for, packed just as much excitement into three days as possible as the Tigers competed in the Intercollegiate Rowing Associa-tion championships in Camden, NJ. The Tigers easily won the opening heat before a close third-place finish in the semifinal sent Princeton to the national champi-onship grand final for a showdown with California, the No. 1 team in the nation.

The defending champion, Princeton broke the IRA record with a time of 5:26.3. Unfortunately for the Tigers, the Golden Bears bettered that mark by three seconds. California took the early lead and had open water over Princeton with 500 meters re maining before the Tigers made a surge to cut the lead to only a couple of seats. Cal used a final boost to win in a record-setting time of 5:23.6.

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Review of 1999 Men’s Heavyweight Crew



VARSITYE.A.R.C. Champions

Goldthwait CupPlatt Trophy

Wood-Hammond CupJoseph Wright Cup

Back Row: D.McLean ’99, J.Lawson ’99. J.Liddell ’99, W.Fedyna ’00, Joe Murtaugh (Coach)Front Row: E.Kratochvil ’01, A.Salamini ’99 (Cox), W.Golden ’99, Z.Brown ’00, D.Kaminstein ’00

JUNIOR VARSITYE.A.R.C. Champions

Cornell TrophyBack Row: S.Perkins ’99, J.Johannes ’01, G.Revelle ’00, J.DiNorcia ’00, Joe Murtaugh (Coach)Front Row: D.Provan ’99, C.Wenk ’01, S.Young ’00, D.Dillon ’01, J.Schwartz ’99 (Cox)

PRINCETON TEAM CUP WINNERS

E.A.R.C. Champions

Jope CupI.R.A.

Mulcahy Trophy

MIXED HEAVIES & LIGHTS COMPETE

AT HENLEYW.J.Golden ’99, J.R.Liddell ’99, W.E.Fedyna ’00, E.A.Kratochvil ’01, D.V.Kemp ’00, D.C.Bordeau ’00, D.J.Garbutt ’01, D.S.Newman ’99 (Stroke), G.M.Adamson ’99 (Cox)


The old saying goes, “One bad apple can spoil a whole bunch.” For the 1999 men’s lightweight crew team, there were plenty of shiny red apples this sea son, but a sixth place finish in the national championship race left a bitter taste. After sailing through another undefeated sea son and picking up their 12th overall easte rn sprints championship, the defending national champion Tigers could not pull a repeat performance on the Cooper River in Camden. Princeton is still one of the premier lightweight programs in the coun try, and this season only reinforced that fact.

Thc Tigers first and only home regatta of the year saw the varsity eight take a 10- second advantage across the finish line in the first of a three-race sweep over Georgetown. With a slight tailwind on the flat water of Lake Carnegie, the Tigers won with a time of 5:43.3. Princeton then took to the highway for a regatta in Itha-ca against Cornell and Rutgers. The Tigers finished in a time of 6:22.8, 8.5 seconds ahead of the Scarlet Knights and 13 seconds ahead of the Big Red. The Tigers swept all five races, including both freshman events.

Battling rough waters and a strong headwind on the Schuylkill River in Phila delphia, Princeton easily sailed to victory over the host Quakers and the Mid-shipmen from the Naval Academy in a time of 6:19.6. The orange and black won all three varsity races by at least 13 seconds and took the victory in the first fresh-man race.

In the biggest lightweight race of the season, Princeton edged the Crimson by four and a half sec-onds to win its third Goldthwait Cup in four years. Yale took third in the annual H-Y-P, trailing Harvard by one second. With all three first varsity boats coming into the race with undefeated marks, the Tigers left Cambridge without a blemish. Princeton entered the race with a No. 1 ranking in the US Rowing poll, with Harvard second and Yale fourth.

With a 7-0 record in the dual competi tion, the Tigers had their sights on de fending their Eastern As-

sociation of Rowing Colleges Sprints title. Princeton proved why it was the defending national cham pion and the lightweights combined with the heavyweights to sweep six of six var sity races for back-to-back cham-pionships. Princeton edged Columbia by less than two seconds for the win in a time of 5:42.50. The Tigers took third in the freshman lightweight event.

Princeton traveled to the prestigious waters of the Cooper River in Camden for the annual IRA champion-ship regatta and a chance to defend its 1998 title. The Tigers finished second to Dartmouth in the trial heats to advance to the grand final. Top ranked and a possible favorite, the Tigers finished a disappointing sixth with a time or 5:47.70.

Ivy member Harvard won the event in 5:39.7. Princeton held the third position at the 1000-meter mark, but could not make up ground down the stretch.


Review of 1999 Men’s Lightweight Crew


1999 MEN’S CREWS

LIGHTWEIGHT THIRD VARSITY

EARC ChampionsBack Row: Coach J.Murtaugh, C.Rusin ’01, A.Baine ’00, J.Penry ’01, T.Hickman ’01, E.Cobb ’99Front Row:S.Ahmad ’00, S.Taylor ’00, C.Blum ’99, C.Browne ’01


— Class of 2002J.Fien-Helfman (Cox), W.Foshay (Stroke), S.Dias, M.Burish, B.Brown, J.Mandel, S.Bratman, J.Carroll, P.Kantak

HEAVYWEIGHT SECOND


S.Clowney ’00, C.Schneider, J.Clough, C.Ward, A.Landfried, S.Newbold, B.Johnson, A.Shah



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CLASS OF 1999 CUPPresented by the

Varsity Lightweight Women of the Princeton and Radcliffe

Classes of 1999to be awarded annually to the winner of

The Princeton–Radcliffe

Lightweight Women’s Varsity Eight Race

1999 Princeton, Radcliffe2000 Princeton, Radcliffe

DAVID R. COVIN ’91 AWARDAwarded annually to the rower, a member of the senior class and a member of the Women’s Lightweight Crew, who has shown the best sportsmanship

and has done the most for rowing.

1999 Abigail Cromwell ’992000 Linda Loyd ’02

I began rowing as a freshman with no previous rowing experience, only a desire to be part of a varsity sport at Princeton. I loved the sport, even if I didn’t look like the typical rower. At only 5’7”, I stood several conspicuous inches shorter than everyone else on my team, except, of course, for my coxswain. Fortunately for me, I man-aged to just sneak into the second novice boat for my first spring racing season and I never looked back from there. However, I certainly would not have been able to succeed as a rower if a lightweight program had not been created. I struggled to improve my rowing skills all throughout my sophomore year, but I never made a varsity boat. The knowledge that a lightweight program would be starting up the following year kept me at the boat-house and on the erg. It was an honor to be a founding member of the lightweight program at Princeton in the fall of 1997 and my teammates and I worked hard to prove that we would continue the tradition of elite rowing at the boathouse. We were not a group of athletes recruited from top high school rowing programs and many of us were still relatively new to the sport or had not rowed in several years, but we were all determined to succeed. This conviction was evident in our first race of the fall when we finished as the top placed collegiate crew at the Head of the Charles. We were definitely off to an auspicious start. Under the guidance of our coach Heather Smith, we continued to improve as we headed into winter training. The spring racing season that year was a heated battle between us, Villanova, and Radcliffe culminating in our third place finish at IRAs at the end of the season. We knew we had achieved a lot in our first year in existence as a team, but we were looking forward to even more success next year, including a national title. The next year we dominated all of our races, had an unde-feated spring racing season, and brought home the national title that had eluded us the year before. As a senior and the team captain for the second year in a row, I celebrated a great finish to a great rowing career at Princeton.

Halle Markus ’99



OPEN VARSITY1975 Cup

1984 Point TrophyContent Cup

Eisenberg CupM.Chilstrom ’99, K.Phillips ’02, S.Cook ’00, C.Lavdovsky ’02, K. Bartges ’00, E.Jones ’99, E.Spigel ’99, S.Zwiebel ’99 (Stroke), E.Sroka ’99 (Cox)

OPEN JUNIOR VARSITY

T.Tivorsak ’01, E.Eiseman ’99, K.Bartholdson ’02, J.Hain ’01, C.Hruska ’00, J.Bucher ’00, A.C.Pitney ’00, P.M.Mudgett ’01 (Stroke), K.Williams ’00 (Cox)

NOVICES—Class of 2002

B.Chevalier, J.Wilmer, E.O’Sullivan, M.Hagstrum, M.Higgins, C.Marsella, C.Mahoney, M.O’Reilly (Stroke), V.Diavolitsis (Cox)

OPEN VARSITY FOUR

C.Ibanez ’01, E.Pearson ’01, M.Widmann ’99, C.Weaver ’99 (Stroke), C.Biesecker ’01 (Cox)



According to Webster, a nemesis is “anyone or any-thing by which, it seems, one must inevitably be defeated or frustrated.” For the 1999 women’s open crew team, a picture of the Brown Bears could be placed beside that definition. The women lost three races this season, all at the oars of the Bears, which seemed to bookend the 1999 campaign. What happened in the middle proved why Princeton is one of the premier crews in the country.

The season began with defending east ern champion and third-ranked Brown coming to Lake Carnegie for one of the Tigers’ tightest races all season. It was a close race throughout, with the Bears tak ing a 1.5 second advantage across the fin ish line. After a 13-second victory against Rutgers and Columbia on the Raritan River, the Tigers headed to Cambridge for what proved to he the closest race of the season. In the 20th regatta between Princeton, Radcliffe and Cornell, the Orange and Black came away with a slim victory, crossing the finish line seven hun-dredths of a second ahead of the Crim son. Cornell finished the race in third. The win marked the 10th con secutive and 13th overall, Tiger victory in the series.

In the third of four road weekends for the Tigers, Princeton traveled to nearby Derby, for a dual regatta with Yale. Prince ton took a 17.7-second advantage across the finish line as the Tigers picked their 11th consecu-tive victory over the Elis in Eisenberg Cup competition. The Orange and Black rounded out the month of March with a five-race sweep of Dartmouth and Pennsylvania in Hanover.

In the final regular-season event of the year, Old Nassau hosted a four-team re gatta that included two teams from the nation’s capitol, George Washington and Georgetown, along with the top-ranked boat in the East, Virginia. Ranked third in the last, Princeton edged the Wahoos by three seconds for the victory.

The Tigers carried that momentum into the an-nual Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges

championship. Once again Princeton topped Virginia and Radcliffe, but took second, 2.1 seconds behind Brown. The members of the first varsity earned second team All-Ivy honors.

With an invitation to the third annual NCAA cham-pionships over the Memorial Day weekend, the Tigers headed to Cali fornia or the final rowing event of the 1998-99 year. Princeton edged Michigan by less than a second to win the trial heat on Friday and took second in the semifi nals on Saturday, nine tenths of a second behind California, to advance to the grand final. The Tigers led for the first 800 meters of the championship race, but saw that lead diminish midway through. The Golden Bears once again slipped across the finish line less than a second ahead of Princeton, giving the Tigers a fourth-place finish. Princeton could not avenge two previous losses as Brown won its first national championship with a first-place fin-ish, and Virginia took second.

In a sport that has very low postseason honors, the Tigers took home their share of the first annual all-region and All-America awards from the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association. Three Tigers were named to the Mid-Atlantic first team, Kristin Bartges, Sarah Cook and Eli Sroka. Bartges and Sroka were first-team All America selections, while Cook earned second-team accolades.

Head coach Lori Dauphiny was named the Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year.


Review of 1999 Women’s Open Crew



VARSITYClass of 1999 Cup

EAWRC ChampionsBack Row: L.Cakmak ’00 (Cox), H.Smith (Coach), L.Vaughn ’99 (Stroke), T.Kavander ’99, A.Moore ’01, H.Markus ’99 (Capt.), Front Row: B.Estridge ’01, A.Cromwell ’99, C.O’Connor ’01, J.Perry ’99


EAWRC ChampionsA.Burmeister, J.Bartholomew, D.Guyer, M.Lomas, K.Yamaguchi, M.Cunningham, M.Mullarkey, L.Loyd (Stroke), R.Lavizzo-Mourey (Cox)

Photo – Sport Graphics


J.Jarrett ’01 (Stroke), E.McPherson ’01, S.Conrath ’02, C.Cutler ’02, P.Wu ’02 (Cox)


A 1978 article in The Daily Princetonian began, “One of the best-kept secrets on the Princeton campus is the excellence of the women’s crew team.” Granted that statement was made long before Heather Smith stood at the helm of the women’s lightweight crew as it made its first appearance on the water in 1998. For those of you that were under a rock during the 1999 season, the secret is out.

In only its second year as a varsity sport, the wom-en’s lightweight crew team has already made its mark among the elite, winning the 1999 national title with a first place finish at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships. Although women’s lightweight is still growing across the nation, it has definitely found a home on Lake Carnegie.

Whether the Tigers were success ful in their first outing of the year is all a matter of perspective. In the San Di ego Classic, Princeton took first in the qualifying heat in a field of six boats, but was disqualified because the coxswain was not carrying her weight. The team was allowed to participate in the champion-ship event that afternoon, but with exhi bition status. The Tigers crossed the fin ish line first; however, they were not con sidered the winner. Villanova, coming in three seconds after Princeton, took home the championship.

Princeton returned to the Northeast for the Camden Invitational on the Cooper River, two weeks after being disqualified in California. The six-boat field saw the Tigers cross the finish line 11.09 seconds ahead of the host Wildcats. After an easy win against Wisconsin on Lake Carnegie, the Tigers traveled to Cambridge for a showdown against Radcliffe, who had seemed to be the

nemesis of 1998. Prince ton took a 14-second advantage across the finish line and took a 2-0 record into the season final on its home water. Hosting Virginia and Georgetown, Princeton rowed a 15-second victory en route to a perfect 4-0 mark heading into the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges Sprints.

For the second time in its two-year ex istence, Princ-eton proved to be too tough from start to finish, winning the presti gious event with a time of 6:31.20, its fast est of the year.

The last event of the season would be the IRA championship, held on the Coop er River in Camden to determine the nation’s best. After a third-place finish in their first appearance in the national championship race in 1998, the Tigers refused to be denied in 1999. US Rowing and the coaches committee could not have called it any better. Let’s take a look at the first regular season poll from late March. Princeton took the top spot followed by Villanova in second. Virginia was in third with Wisconsin in fourth. Radcliffe rounded out the top five.

Six weeks and five races later, the scenery had very few changes. With a four-second advantage, Princeton won the grand final and its first national championship with a time of 6:32.30, a new IRA record. 1998 champion Villanova came in second, followed by Virginia. Radcliffe took fourth, and Wisconsin slipped in fifth

Smith’s recipe for success may be kept under wraps, but the fact that Princeton is at the top of the lightweight crew world is not a secret any longer.


Review of 1999 Women’s Lightweight Crew

PORTS IN OLD TANKSBrooke Estridge ’01, Katie Griswold ’02, Catherine O’Connor 01, Lucy Muzzy ’02, Marissa Cunningham ’02, Becca Lemme ’02, Sara Conrath ’02, Anne Moore ’01



VARSITYCarnegie Cup

Childs CupNavy Trophy

K.M.Brown ’00, C.J.L.Burkmar ’00, E.A.Kratochvil ’01, M.Flickinger ’01,D.V.Kemp ’00, C.W.Perry ’01, M.Adams ’01, D.C.Bordeau ’00 (Stroke), J.G.Kimble ’02 (Cox)

JUNIOR VARSITYZ.E.Brown ’00, A.L.Garfall ’02, M.P.Abel ’00, S.G.Marshall ’02, B.C.Cotter ’00, G.G.thiers ’01, D.J.Garbutt ’01, S.M.McCormick ’02 (Stroke), M.A.Patrick ’01 (Cox)

THIRD VARSITYJ.D.Clough ’02, M.J.Burish ’02, S.P.Newbold ’02, A.C.Fraker ’02, T.M.Frankel ’00, R.L.Holmes ’01, P.A.Holland ’01, A.R.Blair-Stanek ’00 (Stroke)



“C’mon! Go for it.” “Give it your all!” “You can do it!”

“GO! GO! GO!”With those roars of encouragement, Princeton

introduced the CRASH P to the new Boathouse on Feb-ruary 24, 2001. Last year it was just for the Varsities, in the old Armory up on campus. This year every rower got to sweat and strain just like at the CRASH B event in Boston — Heavy and Lightweight Men squads, Open and Lightweight Women, and all Freshmen/Nov-ices, even the coxswains, more than 200 rowers. The winner in each category was awarded a silver hammer.

This is the moment of truth. Just how well can you perform if this were a real 2000 meter race. No loafing. No free swinging. The results are constantly on the ergometer display in front of you. As though it weren’t enough that your entire squad and the coaches are hovering over you, urging you to pull to your maxi-mum.

The fall Head Races (Head of the Charles, Head

of the Schuylkill, Belly of the Carnegie) are fun. You are out on the water in a shell. But, an erg race — that’s just plain hard work! And, your performance is a matter of record when the coaches start assembling boats in the spring. Your form may not be great. This is a test of sheer power.

With sixty erg machines in constant motion, the CRASH P event marked the end of the winter crew body-building season. That evening, after the agony, the annual All-Squads Crew Banquet took place with good food, good fun, and the appropriate “roasting” for the coaches. Next week it is out to the Lake, assuming the ice melts, to prepare for the spring racing season.


2000 MEN’S LIGHTWEIGHT CREWS

VARSITYJope Cup

Wood-Hammond CupJ.Fien-Helfman ’02 (Cox), D.Kaminstein ’00 (Stroke), B.Romanzo ’02, W.Fedyna ’00, J.Rapp ’02, S.Dias ’02, C.Wenk ’01, S.Ahmad ’00, J.Johannes ’01


Undefeated Sprint ChampsBack Row: J.Crawford, C.Gill, J.Mannion, J.Land, Coach S.Brennan ’97Front Row: A.Ferrer, T.Howerton, T.Waterhouse, C.Prentke (Cox), R.Scarinci

SECOND VARSITYCornell Trophy

Eastern Sprints ChampionsUndefeated Season

Back Row: J.DiNorcia ’00, T.Hickman ’01, S.Young 00, W.Foshay ’02, M.Shah ’02 (Cox), J.Murtaugh (Coach)Front Row: C.Rusin ’01, J.Sellers ’01, S.Taylor ’00, J.W.Carroll ’02



Rebuild and regroup. These were the themes dur-ing the men’s heavyweight crew’s 1999-00 season. The crew returned only two rowers from its 1999 varsity boat, which sailed to a perfect regular season, losing two to the 2000 Olympics and five others to graduation. They were without their head coach, Curtis Jordan, who rejoined the U.S. national team to coach Olympic hopefuls. They lost their boathouse to a massive renovation. But focusing on the task at hand, the Tigers emerged with results that do not often characterize a “rebuilding” year – medals at both the varsity and second varsity levels at the IRA championship.

Seniors without varsity boat racing experience and scrappy underclassmen presented a challenge for Chris Nilsson, the interim coach responsible for constructing a championship-caliber team. Despite being physically smaller than crews of years past, the rowers stepped up their erg training during the winter, sensing the opportu-nities ahead.

The Tigers opened the sprints season against Navy and swept the varsity, second varsity, third varsity, first freshman and second freshman races. The varsity boat finished in 5:48.99, nearly eight seconds before Navy’s top eight crossed the line. The third varsity race was the only one to be decided by fewer than five seconds.

The crew clashed oars with Rutgers the following week at home. The varsity boat more than doubled its margin of victory from the previous week, cruising to a 16-second victory. Princeton also won the second varsity and first freshman races. Penn and Columbia were the next opponents on the schedule and also the next to fall.

The Tigers suffered their first setback of the year in Boston the next week, placing second behind Harvard in a time of 5:31.8 in a questionable “head race” format due to weather conditions. Princeton then traveled to Ithaca, N.Y., to challenge Yale and Cornell for the Carnegie Cup. The varsity won in 6:02.0, nearly eight seconds faster than its closest competitor.

The race the Tigers had looked forward to all year as the greatest regular-season challenge came in the final week of the season when Brown visited Lake Carnegie. The Bears broke it open in the second thousand and fin-ished almost eight seconds ahead of Princeton’s 5:52.3 performance.

Key lineup switches within the varsity boat and the crews hungriest attitude of the season ignited two good weeks of practice, but would it be enough? At the Eastern Sprints in Worcester, Mass., the varsity boat displayed its new-found speed, placing second in the grand final. Princeton topped Harvard, silencing questions remaining

from the Boston race, and third-place Wisconsin, which had beaten them in the heat. Princeton’s 2V and fresh-man boats completed a trifecta of second-place finishes at the event. The JV earned the silver medal by beating Harvard, who had tied Princeton earlier in the year, while the freshman boat finished ahead of both Harvard and Brown, avenging an earlier loss to the Bears.

One race left, and one chance remaining to catch Brown. Only this time, at the IRA championship, the two big West Coast crews, returning national champion California and 1999 bronze medalists Washington, would enter the picture.

In their final race of the season, the Tigers once again narrowed the gap on Brown, but neither crew could keep pace with California. Princeton finished 0.37 of a second back of Brown to win the bronze, rowing the Camden, N.J., course in 5:44.87. The second varsity also closed its season with a stellar grand final performance, coming in second to Brown in another close race, just more than one second back. The first freshman boat finished fifth. An unlikely group of medalists in September, but heroes in June that fell just short of an immaculate performance.

Men’s Lightweight CrewNobody ever said winning was easy. With the suc-

cess that Princeton’s varsity light weight crews have had during the past two years, however, an observer might be inclined to think that winning had become easy for Princeton. After two consecutive undefeated seasons, highlighted by a 1998 national championship and EARC sprints champion ship at every varsity level for two straight years, a core group of seniors graduated from Old Nassau. The sheer dominance Princeton had maintained during its near-perfect 1998 and 1999 seasons left with those seniors, but another successful season was in store for the up-and-coming lightweight crews.

The Tigers returned only two rowers from their 1999 varsity boat, but a determined group of underclassmen, trying for their first season in the varsity boat, stepped up and filled holes. The younger rowers formed a varsity boat that would suffer a few setbacks along the road, but they would continue to gain speed all season long and cap it off with one of the most memorable finishes in the history of Princeton crew.

The season-opening regatta against Georgetown at home was rescheduled due to unrowable conditions. A week later the Tigers went to the line against Rutgers and Cornell at home. Princeton rowed hard to finish in


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—Class of 2003D.Stover (Cox), K.Crafton (Stroke), D.Nielson, J.Cranston, J.Sykes, A.Batchelor, B.Barrett, J.Parker, C.Simon

HEAVYWEIGHT SECOND


R.Jayasinge (Cox), S.Hall (Stroke), J.Plater-Zyberk, P.Haaga, ?, A.Haislip, D.Kelly, J.Mirabel, V.Tsai

2000 MENS HEAVYWEIGHT FRESHMEN – Class of 2003


6:01.2, but a more efficient Rutgers crew won in a time of 5:55.1. Princeton finished four seconds ahead of Cornell for second. The Tigers won the second and third varsity races and the freshman race.

The following week brought Pennsylvania and Navy to Lake Carnegie. This time the Tigers cruised to a 12-second victory in the varsity race in a time of 6:15.8 to capture the Wood-Hammond Trophy and complete the sweep of all four races. The third varsity race was the only event that Princeton won by fewer than eight seconds.

In the race for the Goldthwait Cup between Harvard, Yale and Princeton, the Tigers came up short, rowing to a 5:48.8 that landed them in third. Yale won the varsity race after finishing third in 1999, but the Tigers won the second and third varsity races, as well as the freshman race.

The rescheduled race against Georgetown turned out to be a tune-up before the EARC sprints. The Tigers swept all three races on the morning, the closest of which was the varsity race, which was decided by a comfort-able nine-second margin. Princeton’s varsity boat rowed to a 5:48.8 to finish the regular season with a 4-3 record, while the junior varsity, third varsity and freshman boats all completed undefeated regular seasons.

The EARC sprints proved to be more challeng-ing that it had been in recent years, as the Tigers placed fourth behind first-place Columbia, Yale and Harvard. The Crimson edged Princeton by a half-second for the bronze medal. The run for the Tigers’ third straight Jope Cup (the total team points trophy for ‘overall lightweight supremacy’) was fueled by the second varsity and fresh-man boats, which both capped undefeated seasons by winning EARC championships. The Tigers edged Yale by one point in the standings for the title, their fourth in five years.

If the Tigers were disappointed after their fourth-place finish in the varsity race at sprints, it didn’t show at the IRA national championships, when the Tigers found themselves in one of the great athletic contests in recent Princeton history. Four crews came to the wire in almost a dead heat, and less than a second separated one through four. The photo finish was examined after the race, and it was determined that Princeton finished with silver in a time of 5:50.54, just 0.15 of a second behind champion Yale.

Women’s Lightweight CrewAfter an undefeated season that culminated in both

Eastern sprints and IRA national championships, what could Princeton’s lightweight women’s crew possibly do for an encore?

Despite graduating five seniors from the 1999 lineup, it seemed Princeton would settle for nothing less than a repeat perfor mance. The Tiger crew, which returned only a few varsity members from the 1999 crew and added a hand-ful of dynamite sopho mores to the mix, looked to continue riding the wave of perfection. Early in the season Wisconsin provided the only threat to Princeton’s goals, but down the final stretch Princeton tapped its potential for speed no other crew in the nation could match.

The crew season opened on the West Coast with the San Diego Crew Classic. Princeton joined a field of com-petitors that included 1998 national champion Villanova, up-and-coming Wisconsin and rival Radcliffe. In the grand final the Tigers and the Badgers distanced themselves from the field, but Princeton trailed Wisconsin by six seats in second place. With 500 meters to go, a devastating crab cost Wisconsin the race, and Princeton sprinted ahead to an easy 15-second victory to capture the A.W. Coggeshall Cup in a time of 7:13.9.

Two weeks later on an overcast Saturday in mid-April, the Badgers were back to settle the score with Princeton. Both crews began the morning ranked No. 1, in a tie atop the national polls. Villanova and a new light weight crew from Brown rounded out the four-boat race on Lake Carnegie. The Wisconsin crew proved that the first 1,500 meters in San Diego was no fluke, taking a move at the 1,000-meter mark and holding on for a two-second victory in 7:01.8. Princeton (7:03.8) used a late surge to steal second place from Villanova. In the varsity four race, Princeton fell second to Wisconsin by just inches, 8:03.2 to 8:03.25.

Another two weeks passed before the Tigers raced again, but this time on Lake Carnegie they left no questions about who the superior crew was. The varsity eight crushed Radcliffe by 22 seconds in a time of 7:36.2, and the varsity four covered the course in 8:38.4, 24 seconds faster than its Radcliffe counterpart.

The following weekend the Tigers’ varsity raced with exhibition status in the women’s open competition against George Washington and Georgetown at home. The varsity lightweight crew defeated the second varsity open crews from GW and Georgetown by more than 30 seconds, trailing only the 2V open crew from Princeton by just two seconds. In the varsity lightweight four race, Princeton defeated George-town by 10 seconds. The novice lightweight eight topped the novice lightweight crew from Georgetown by 18 seconds.

Princeton’s next shot at Wisconsin came at the Eastern sprints in New Preston, Conn., where the Tigers did not


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VARSITY1975 Cup


K.William ’00 (Cox), C.Lavdovsky ’02 (Stroke), S.Cook ’00, K.Bartges ’00, S.Suda ’03, K.Phillips ’01, C.Hruska ’00, L.Pernell ’03, J.Hain ’01

JUNIOR VARSITYC.Biesecker ’01 (Cox), L.Pitney ’00 (Stroke), J.Bucher ’00, E.Pearson ’01, C.Marsella ’02, M.Higgins ’02, K.Bartholdson ’00, E.O’Sullivan, M.Mudgett ’01


C.Powel (Cox), J.Freeberg, E.Steinle-Darling, C.Iaakmann, D.Clarkson, A.Gerland, E.Gregory, K.Rogers


K.Thomas (Cox), A.Evans, B.Danaher, S.Schaner, C.Sander, D.Manning, S.Fox, N.Parks, J.Rosenblum



disappoint, winning their third consecutive championship. Princeton and Wisconsin once again walked away from the field, battling each other all the way down the course. Princ-eton pushed hard through the last 500 meters and sneaked away with a one-second victory in 7:12.1. Radcliffe was a distant third in 7:41.3. Princeton’s varsity four displayed its improved speed as it dethroned the unde feated four from Wisconsin that had beaten it earlier in the season. The Tigers brought home the gold in 8:06.4, three seconds ahead of the Badgers. The novice lightweight crew took silver in its big-gest race of the year, finishing second to Wisconsin in 7:31.4.

In Camden, with something special at stake, the Tigers successfully defended their national title at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships. Leading from start to finish, a strong press at the 1,000-meter mark and an explo-sive sprint gave the Tigers all the margin they needed for a four-second victory. The Tigers earned gold with their 7:03.5 time, with Villanova following in 7:07.5 and Wisconsin nine seconds back in 7:12.4. With the win in the final team event of the school year, Princeton University’s streak of consecu-tive years with at least one national champion reached 14.

Now that is an encore.

Women’s Open CrewThe 2000 season played out in a peculiar manner for

the Princeton women’s open crew. After losing to a defending national champion Brown crew that returned eight of nine varsity members in its first race, Princeton raced quietly in the shadow of its Ivy League rival all season.

But the results were anything but quiet, as Princeton won its last five regattas and ran its season record to 12-1. Then, in the season-ending championships, the Tigers were nipped by some crews that they had defeated in dual meets. With four seniors, two sophomores and two freshmen in the varsity boar for much of the season, the Tigers had a rather extreme mix of experience and youth, which may have cost them in the tension- filled six-boat championship finals in May.

Only at Princeton, where the standard is so high, could a 2-1 season and national finalists at every varsity level be just “good.” The Tigers opened their season at home against top-ranked Brown. Through the 1,000-meter mark, with Princeton clinging to a four-seat lead, it looked like the Ti-ger crew might pull off the major upset. But the Bear crew was too powerful in the third 500 as it captured the lead and finished four seconds faster than Princeton’s 6:31.3 time.

The next regatta, which spanned three days due to unrowable conditions on Lake Carnegie, was completed early on a Monday morning with a clean Princeton sweep of all five races. Against Columbia and Rutgers the varsity crew was hardly challenged, walking away with a 15-second victory in 6:40.3. The second varsity won by 36 seconds and the varsity four by 38 seconds. The calmer conditions Mon-day yielded closer races, but it was still all Princeton, with

the two novice crews earning their first collegiate victories.The varsity eight improved to 5-1 the next weekend,

defeating Radcliffe, Cornell and Miami at home.Princeton then defeated rivals Yale and Virginia by

two and three seconds respectively. At home, battling Ivy League opponents Dartmouth and Pennsylvania, Princeton won its fourth straight regatta, sailing to a five-second vic-tory to improve to 9-1. The Tiger crews capped the regular season with a five-race sweep on Lake Carnegie. The varsity defeated Georgetown, Fordham, and George Washington, its closest competi tor, by more than 20 seconds as the Tigers finished with a 12-1 record, undefeated since opening against Brown. The closest race of the day was a 14-second win in the first novice race, and the average margin of victory was nearly 30 seconds during the Tigers’ stampede.

At the EAWRC sprints championships, Princeton had its first chance to race Brown since the Bears’ early-April win. The varsity fell short again, finishing third behind repeating-champion Brown and Radcliffe to earn bronze medals. The Tiger crew, which covered the course in 6:47.5 in the grand final, lost its first race in six weeks. The second varsity put together a solid race to again beat Virginia, but it finished second behind Brown. The Orange and Black finished first in the second novice race with a time of 7:23.80, defeating second-place Boston University by three seconds. Princeton finished sixth in both the open varsity four and novice eight. Princeton’s strong overall showing placed the Tiger crews second in Chick Willing Points Trophy. The Tigers’ total of 62 points was 10 points behind Brown and four points ahead of Virginia.

At the NCAA championships in Camden, Princeton reaffirmed the national caliber of its program, joining Brown, Washington, Virginia and California as the colleges to qualify all three varsity boats into the grand finals. The Tigers exerted gutsy efforts in each race, but finished out of the medals. The varsity crew closed its season with a sixth-place finish, giv-ing the program much to look forward to when the younger rowers become stronger and more experienced. The second varsity finished fifth, and the varsity four finished sixth. Princeton finished sixth in the team standings with 32 points.

Princeton Tigers 2001



SHEA ROWING CENTER

The Shea Rowing Center is a gift of Irene C. Shea in memory of her husband, C. Bernard Shea of the Class of 1916 and in celebration of his extraordinary passion for Princeton athletics and the sport of rowing.

As an undergraduate in the days before lightweight oarsmen, C. Bernard Shea ‘16 was a talented athlete who, despite heroic eating and milkdrinking efforts, could never tip the scales enough to make the varsity crew. However, Shea did become a lifelong fan of all Princeton athletics, which he followed avidly as a serviceman in the First World War and later, as a successful Pittsburgh business-man, philanthropist and civic leader.

Irene C. Shea recalls with fondness the many glori-ous weekends she spent with her husband on the shores of Carnegie Lake, cheering for the Tiger crews. Since Bernard Shea’s death in 1961, Mrs. Shea has continued to reside in Pittsburgh, where she is a volunteer for and benefactor of the Shadyside Hospital, the Coalition for Christian Outreach and a host of other community endeav-ors. Of the Shea Rowing Center, she says, “It is especially meaningful to me to help the many students who love both rowing and Princeton, just as my husband did.”

The new C. Bernard Shea ’16 Rowing Center uni-fies the historic Class of 1887 Boathouse with a spacious modern addition, creating a striking presence on the north shore of Carnegie Lake. The remodeled boathouse tower, with stairs sweeping up to a lofty skylit anteroom on the second floor, is not only the dominant visual element of

the complex, but also its primary entryway.From the tower, a long gallery extends westward

above the boat bays, offering views of the lake inter-spersed with evocative photographs of Princeton crews. The gallery leads to an airy refurbished club room, with trophy cases, video equipment and lounge furnishings. An adjacent corridor connects to the men’s and women’s changing rooms.

Upstairs in the attached new Richard Ottesen Prentke Training Center, state-of-the-art training rooms are accented with tall windows and traditional exposed timber trusses. Extending from the south wall, an elevated porch overlooks a wide landscaped lawn, expanded dock-age areas and a rebuilt launch house. The ground floor encompasses two new boat bays and an indoor tank for 16 rowers, framed by a sweeping low arch of windows that emulates in form the graceful stone spans of the Washington Street bridge.

This state-of-the-art rowing facility was designed by Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc. Jeff Peter-son ’84, the Project Architect, was formerly a Princeton oarsman and coach.

The Shea Rowing Center brings to Princeton not only much-needed space and improved training facilities, but a beautiful and versatile athletic headquarters, reflect-ing the long history, generations of effort and legacy of success that define Tiger crew.


SHELL CHRISTENINGS – 6

Boathouse Dedication, October 7, 2000Part I

His first named monument at Princeton

Mrs. Shea dedicates a Resolute

Sara Sikes continues the family tradition. Lon Israel ’45 on left

Len Yerkes ’58 dedicates racing shell just for Lightweight Women. Coach Heather Smith looks on.

MacLewis ’68 Boathouse Renovation Campaign Chairman



VARSITYClass of 1999 Cup

L.Cakmak ’00 (Cox), L.Loyd ’02 (Stroke), A.Burmeister ’02, B.Estridge ’01, J.Jarrett ’01, C.O’Connor ’01, E.Gottshall ’00, K.Griswold ’02, B.Chevalier ’02


Y.Wu ’03 (Cox), B.Wittmer ’01 (Stroke), M.Renny ’03, E.Crawford ’03, L.Dean ’03, V.Garza ’01, A.Guest ’03, S.Okuyama ’03, D.Hollenbeck ’03


FOUR WITH COXEAWRC Champion

R.Lavizzo-Mourey ’02, K.Yamaquchi ’02, S.O’Sullivan ’00, M.Lomas ’02, H.Smith (Coach), Missing: A.Moore ’01


SHELL CHRISTENINGS – 7Boathouse Dedication, October 7, 2000

Part II

The James R.F.Kunkemueller ’61 christened by his wife Pam and daughter Laura ’87, who established a memorial fund in Jim’s honor.

Doug Lovejoy, Associate Director for Leadership Gifts. Far right is Van Williams, VP for Development.

Inge Radice, Associate Director of Athletics, flanked by Lightweight Coach Joe Murtaugh, her husband, and son John D. Radice ’97.

Marki Nilsson celebrates as Curtis Jordan, Dick Prentke ’67, and Chris Nilsson (interim Heavyweight Varsity Coach) look on. Mike Rosenbaum ’81 records the moment.

Jeff Peterson ’84, architect for the Shea Rowing Center, and Lightweight Freshman Coach in 1985.


Princeton University Rowing AssociationFrom the institution of intercollegiate rowing at

Princeton in 1872, rowing alumni/ae and friends, through the Princeton University Rowing Association (PURA) and its predecessors, have established a tradition of providing Princeton’s rowing facilities, equipment, and many other kinds of financial and moral support. The PURA, currently comprised of more than 3000 former Princeton rowers, is one of the oldest athletic “friends” groups in the country. It traces its origin to the Princeton University Boating Club of the 1870’s, through the Lake Carnegie Association (which owned the lake from 1906 to 1943), the Graduate Advisory Committee on Rowing, the University Rowing Committee, and the Advisory Rowing Committee.

The 19th century college crews were student-governed organizations with amateur coaches. They sought support from students and alumni. It was not until 1905 that Harvard sought an edge and hired a professional coach. Yale followed the next year. Rowing developed more slowly at Princeton, which was less well endowed by nature for aquatic sports.

William Allen Butler 1876 was a founder and the initial president of what is now the Princeton University Rowing Association. A bronze plaque in his memory pointing the path to the boathouse is embedded in the sidewalk near Patton Hall.

THIS PATH TO THE BOATHOUSE

IS DEDICATED BY HIS CLASSMATES AND FRIENDS

TO THE MEMORY OF

WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER ’76ACTIVE IN ERECTING THE FIRST BOATHOUSE ON THE

CANAL 1874 TRUSTEE OF CARNEGIE LAKE ASSOCIATION 1906-1923

& PRESIDENT 1921-1923 CHAIRMAN OF THE UNIVERSITY ROWING

COMMITTEE 1910-1920

THE FATHER OF ROWING IN PRINCETON

Following the successful completion of the row-ing infrastructure at Princeton through the creation of Lake Carnegie and construction of the Class of 1887 Boathouse by 1912 , rowing alumni and friends set about to establish what has become a tradition of support for the program that continues today. The Graduate Advisory Committee of the PURA (now the PURA Trustees) sought, and the Princeton Alumni Weekly heartily endorsed in the April 30, 1913 issue, dues from “loyal alumni” to support the annual expenses of the program so that “this sport at Princ-eton shall be conducted on an absolutely amateur basis.”

Rowing at PrincetonThe Princeton Alumni Weekly

April 30, 1913

The re-establishment of rowing at Princeton is no longer a doubtful experiment. With our crews winning intercollegiate laurels, with about seventy undergradu-ates out on Lake Carnegie each afternoon, and with the new boathouse presented by the Class of [18]87 nearing completion and supplementing Mr. Carnegie’s splendid gift of the Lake, this healthful and interesting form of athletics has now won for itself a well recognized place. Unlike other leading sports, however, rowing cannot pay for itself, but, on the other hand, the policy of our rowing authorities requires a very modest expense in compari-son with the large sums for the support of crews at other universities. Because we thoroughly believe in rowing on the basis on which it has been established at Princeton, The Weekly bespeaks a hearty response to the following statement from the Graduate Advisory Committee of the Rowing Association:

In October last, the Graduate Advisory Commit-tee of the Princeton University Rowing Association sent a circular letter to the alumni stating what had been done in rowing at Princeton during the last year, what it was proposed to do in the future, and asked that the alumni become associate members of the Rowing Association, with dues of $5.00 a year.

Rowing collects no gate money, and, with the exception of the sum allotted to it from the general athletic fund, has been largely supported to date by the contributions of a few alumni who have under-taken to enable Princeton to take a stand in this great sport, commensurate with its position in the other major sports.

The budget last year, including $1,500 for new


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equipment, the trip to Cambridge, the sending of the second crew to Philadelphia, the entertaining of the Cornell and Columbia crews, and the Yale freshmen at Princeton, during the regatta, was less than $3,900, as compared with nearly $16,000 at Yale, and some-thing in excess of $17,000 at Harvard. With this small expenditure, eight eights were daily coached on the Lake, under the personal supervision of Dr. Spaeth and his able assistants, Mr. Scoon, Mr. Schellens of the Faculty and Mr. Roche 1911. Many alumni feel that through the employment of professional coaches and trainers to the extent that is now the custom, some of our college sports are but a shade removed from professionalism.

It is also the determination of the Committee and also of Dr. J. Duncan Spaeth, the Director of Rowing, that this sport at Princeton shall be conducted on an absolutely amateur basis, and that its expenses shall be kept down to a minimum. It will be our aim to enlist the interest of the undergraduates of the University in rowing for the pure sport and exercise derived therefrom, and to compete with other universities on an amateur and sportsmanlike basis.

The results of last season were not only satis-factory, but really remarkable, considering the short time that Princeton has engaged in the sport. What Princeton has done in rowing, and the basis on which it is now organized, is causing the most favorable comment among the friends of the sport, among our own alumni and those of other universities, so much so, that graduates of other institutions have, in several instances, expressed to members of this committee the wish that their university, in a reasonable time, could adopt similar methods.

With the completion in the very near future of the boat house, which the Class of [18]87 is presenting to the University, the opportunities for the development of rowing will be greatly enlarged, and without doubt the interest in the sport will be doubled or trebled.

This Committee believed that the letter of Oc-tober would bring a ready response from the loyal alumni; but as it was issued at the time when most of them were occupied with the Presidential campaign, in very many instances it was thrown aside, or lost, or escaped the attention of those to whom it was sent. We, therefore, beg leave to again call your attention to this matter, and earnestly request that you become a member of the Rowing Association, and thereby help furnish the only means at the present time whereby

this splendid sport may be established on a firm and sure foundation.

At a meeting of this Committee, held in Princ-eton on March the 8th, the following schedule was approved:

May 6th, Philadelphia High School, Harvard Freshmen and Princeton Freshmen, at Princeton.

May 10th, Harvard, Pennsylvania and Princeton at Cambridge.

May 17th, Annapolis, Columbia and Princeton, at Princeton.

Commencement week, Novice and Class Races.

Signed, Wm. Allen Butler [18]76 Arthur L. Wheeler [18]96 Chas. S. Bryan [18]87, Chairman 220 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Graduate Advisory Committee

The PURA was revitalized in the late 1940’s when Bill Farthing ’50 and Will Rivinus ’50 compiled lists of former rowers as crew managers. They adopted a logo and put out a typed newsletter reporting on the sport and, of course, seeking contributions. Gordon Sikes ’16, Heinie Lee ’21, Bud Smith ’36 and numerous others responded. Ed Masinter ’52, Bill Brokaw ’52 and Ash Harvey ’51 became the initial leaders, formally incorporated the as-sociation and achieved a critically important 501(c)(3) approval as a charitable organization from the United States Internal Revenue Service.

The Princeton Rowing News (now called the “Notes”) appeared with Volume I, Number 1, in April 1950. It heralded the assembly of an Advisory Rowing Committee (now the PURA trustees), the move of the IRA from Poughkeepsie to Marietta, Ohio, the ’49 crews going to Henley, and Dutch Schoch departing for six weeks of club crew coaching in Havana, Cuba. The Notes grew big-ger in subsequent years with season forecasts, schedules, results, alumni notes, and PURA budgets and business. Fundraising is a perennial issue for the PURA, just as it is for other organizations. The initial $5 per year dues did not last. In 1976, the novel approach of a Lease-an-Oar program was utilized.

A series of leaders, including Gordon Sikes ’16, Gabby Lee ’16, Heine Lee ’21, Pete Rosenbaum ’48, Don Marsh ’68, Mac Lewis ’68, Percy Preston ’36, Grant Sanger ’31, Lon Israel ’45, Bud Smith ’36, Stuyve Pell

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Would you like to lease an oar to an oarsman/woman at Princeton? You can. The price of a racing oar is $200. You can purchase an oar and lease it to one of our rowing participants. The oar will have an engraved plaque attached which will identify you as the owner. After three years of use, your oar will be returned to you; or, if you wish, donated to the rowing program.

’53, Cathy Brown ’76, Al Piranian ’69, Art Miller ’73 and Dick Prentke ’67 broadened the base of support, increased and institutionalized alumni support, and made capital and financial improvements to Princeton rowing.

Grant Sanger, in particular, was instrumental not only in leading the effort to build the original Alumni Rowing tank but also in organizing the Sikes Fund, which is now Princeton’s primary rowing endowment, upon the death of Gordon G. Sikes ’16.

Other important endowed rowing funds include:

Carnegie FundA fund created “to help defray costs to the oarsmen [sic] in-curred while traveling to fall regattas and spring training and for items of equipment not necessarily met by the University Athletics budget.”

Lightweight Crew FundGiven in March 1964 initially by Charles Moran, Jr. and for-mer Varsity Lightweight captain Charles Moran III ‘58 plus transfer of lightweight equipment balance through Coach A. Povey and Capt. J. Street ‘64; and other donations for “support of lightweight crew.”

James W. Wright ’43 Memorial FundIn memory of Mr. Wright, who was killed in World War II, by his wife, Helen, for support of crew at the discretion of the Athletic Department, the coaches and the PURA in whatever manner they deem best for the advancement of that sport.

Crew of 1921 FundSupports the annual Crew of 1921 Award, organized by Heinie Leh and others. PURA trustees select one or more crews of prior season that had the best season. Trustees have tradition-ally considered a nominee from each of the four programs and made their decision based upon a crew’s performance relative to its opposition.

Friends of CrewEndowments raised in A Campaign for Princeton split half “di-rectly to the Department of Athletics, to relieve General Funds, in support of the teams so endowed” and half “credited annually

to those activities normally supported by annual contributions from the [PURA].”

Monty ’92 and Vic ’62 Raiser Memorial EndowmentDonations of family and others memory of father and son killed in an airplane accident in 1992. The income is accumulated for purchase and upkeep of racing shells for either the male or female crew teams.

C. J. Hamm ’73 Memorial EndowmentDonations of family and other in memory of Ms. Hamm. Original funds bought first boat, with remainder accumulating to become “permanent endowment ... for benefit of the women’s crew program.”

W. Lyman Biddle 1874Given anonymously to endow a medal in memory of Mr. Biddle awarded annually to the graduating Varsity Heavyweight senior who best exemplifies the ideal of good sportsmanship in rowing.

Rudolph S. Rauch ’13 FundNamed after former Heavyweight Varsity captain Rauch.

F. E. Burke ’23 FundDonation by family and friends in memory of Mr. Burke.

Bayard W. Read ’26 FundDonated in 1986 by widow and family of Mr. Read for award to (men’s) lightweight crew member who, “in the judgment of the head coach, has made the most significant improvement during four years of participation.”

H. Russell Butler 1876 Rowing FundA planned gift in the mid-’80’s, which became active in 1996 with the death of Mr. Butler’s son, H. Russell Butler, Jr. ’20. Because of an agreement made during Campaign for Princeton, rowing gets half of the income, while the other half goes to general funds of the Athletic Department for benefit of crew.

James Kunkemueller ’61 FundDonated in 2000 by widow Pam, daughter Laura ’87, family and friends in memory of Mr. Kunkemueller to support travel of all Princeton crew teams.

Mary and Lon Israel ’45 EndowmentDonated in 1997 to endow two shells in honor of Gordon Sikes ’16 and his family.

Irene Shea EndowmentDonated in 2000 by the PURA to endow a shell in the name of Mrs. Irene C. Shea, donor of the Shea Rowing Center in honor of her late husband, C. Bernard Shea ’16.

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The future of the PURA is in excellent hands. Currently led by Bill Walton ’74, the PURA board of trustees includes:

OfficersWilliam H. Walton III ’74, PresidentDavid Covin ’91, Vice PresidentNevin Kelly ’81, Vice PresidentFindley Meislahn ’64, Vice PresidentAnne Touborg Zimmer ’87, Vice PresidentStuyvesant B. Pell ’53, SecretaryAlfred G. Piranian ’69, Treasurer

TrusteesWilliam E. Brown ’83Charles D. Byers ’68Robert M. Chilstrom ’67Wells Drorbaugh, Jr. ’43Bonnie M. Hagerman ’91Lynn Heppes Hancock ’87Ashton Harvey ’51Valerie Jacobs Horvat ’80Theodore G. Kane ’48Karen A. Kuhlthau ’86Robert A. Lee ’74Creighton R. Magid ’84Jennifer A. Marron ’85Peter S. Paine III ’85Michael F. Rosenbaum ’81Bruce G. Soden ’60Tim F. Wray ’88Leonard A. Yerkes III ’58

Trustees EmeritusCharles P. Dennison ’39Edward Glassmeyer ’36Morris A. Mayers ’27George Ohrstrom ’50F. F. Rosenbaum, Jr. ’48

Presidents EmeritusC. Mac Lewis ’68Donald Marsh ’68Edgar Masinter ’52Arthur M. Miller ’73Richard Ottesen Prentke ’67



Hundreds of Princetonians have helped to make this book possible — oarsmen and women who loaned pictures that were scanned and returned. Many of these individuals told of their experiences and their devotion to the sport. Current coaches dug through their logs to find names to go with the recent pictures. Former coaches saved voluminous files of clippings and regatta programs.

One hundred and eighty crew captains and PURA Board members reviewed the text and photos for their years, and made significant additions and corrections.

The Seeley Mudd Archives of the Princeton University Library graciously loaned copies of the BRIC-A-BRAC to be photoscanned by the Department of Printing and Mailing. The Archives are due to receive and store the original photos, files, and computer records used in this book.

Alumni Records retrieved records of early Princ-eton Olympians and produced the listing of all rowers.

Sport Graphics supplied a hundred photos taken near the finish line at Eastern Sprints between 1986 and 2000. Readers desiring original photos, most of which are available in color, are encouraged to contact Sport Graphics, 110 Great Road, Maynard, MA 01754. Phone: 978-897-1748. FAX 978-897-5609.

Bob Matthews was University Photographer in the 1970s and early 1980s. His files provided many photos from that era.

Bob Faron ’68 created the promotional video for the Boathouse Campaign, from which a number of quotes were selected.

Arthur M. Miller ’73 compiled Results of Princ-

eton crew races over the years, a labor of true dedication.

Kurt Kehl of Princeton Sports Information sup-plied the record of crew race results on computer disc.

Ed and Chris Shepherd, retired archivists for ECAC, helped to fill out the early winners of Eastern Sprints and IRA regattas.

Hart Perry, U.S. Steward at the Henley Royal Regatta, who supplied the record of Princeton at Henley.

Elaine Crooks of Beyond Words, Solebury, PA scanned, set, and layed out this volume on her computer, a project which constantly taxed her ingenuity and strained her computer memory.

Fred “Skip” Plank, Jim Elbrecht and Marion Carty of the University’s Department of Printing and Mailing worked computer and printing miracles to pro-duce this book.

Bill Walton ’74, President, and the Board of the Princeton University Rowing Association provided on-going support and encouragement for what became nearly a four year research project.

Dick Prentke ’67 was inspiration, counselor, con-structive critic, author, and endless source of materials used to produce this book.

To all, most heartfelt thanks! I only hope you enjoy reading this book half as much as I enjoyed compiling it.

Will Rivinus ’50 Princeton, 2002

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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