Reviews

Winter break erodes rowing fitness faster than most athletes expect. Even rowers who keep up erg sessions at home often find their on-water feel, raw strength…

Three mornings a week, the College of Charleston Crew Team slides shell after shell into the Ashley River before the Lowcountry fog lifts. The boats, the…

The College of Charleston Crew Team enters every autumn with a fresh wave of rowers, many of whom have never held an oar before. The recruitment chair sits at…

Most athletes will tell you that the hardest part of any sport happens long before the starting gun. It is the quiet discipline of returning to the boat each…

When the College of Charleston Crew Team lines up against rivals like Georgia Tech, Clemson, and the University of Florida, the rowers are participating in a…

Leadership in a rowing shell doesn't sit with the loudest voice or the tallest frame. It comes from the rower who understands the boat, respects the rhythm,…

Every spring morning on the Cooper River, the College of Charleston crew team slides into shells and pushes off into brackish water. Hands grip oar handles for…

Every November, the boathouse on the Ashley River fills with something more than oars and ergometers. It fills with wrapped boxes, hastily scribbled name tags,…

Every collegiate rowing program carries a mark that ends up on caps, unisuits, and the side of a coach's launch. Some crests feel inherited from a century-old…

Charleston, South Carolina rests where two very different waterways meet, the slow-winding Ashley River and the brisk tidal Cooper River. Rowers launching from…