Growing up, Michael Schaefer had an uncommon sports mind. While his friends played basketball in their driveways or took swings in their backyards, he dedicated himself to deep dives on teams, players ...

On the eight-person rowing teams at the Olympics, among the tall, chiseled men and women powering the boat sits a small, seemingly motionless member in the back of the boat. This is a coxswain, and ...

PARIS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - They may put in the least amount of physical effort of the nine people in the boat, but, make no mistake, without a good coxswain there would be little chance of a place on ...

PARIS, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Britain's brilliant performance to win the gold medal in the men's eights on the final day of rowing left coxswain Harry Brightmore jumping for joy, but he made sure not to ...

In her debut as a coxswain, Katelin Snyder crashed the boat into a dock. “The hull cracked in two places,” she said. “Our boat man couldn’t fix the boat. They had to send it back to Vespoli [a ...

Though this is her fourth year on the University of Colorado’s rowing team, Samantha Kelly hasn’t rowed a boat for CU. Instead, as a coxswain, she tells the guys on the team — who are a lot bigger ...

In the 1920s, when football fans first packed California Memorial Stadium, thousands of people also lined the Oakland Estuary, eager to spectate the campus’s original sport. They cheered as eight Cal ...

What Colby Rapson does in a racing shell, she hopes to one day do just as adeptly in a boardroom, that being to lead a group of highly motivated individuals toward a common goal. Rapson, a recent ...

If you are new to the sport of rowing, this Viewer’s Guide will give you the basics, beginning with the types of rowing and equipment. Sculling is the type of rowing in which athletes use two oars ...