1996
Sports Statistics
Record: Lights--3-0, 3-0 regatta; Heavies--3-3, 1-4
Lights Coach: Charlie Butt
Heavies Coach: Harry Parker
1997
Consistency, consistency, consistency.
This is the story of Harvard's crew program.
Harvard's first heavyweight boat has made the Grand Finals of the Eastern Sprints for 33 straight years. The next longest streak is four years.
Harvard's first lightweight boat raced this past weekend looking for its fourth national championship in seven years.
Consistency.
Lightweights
Things got off to a slow start for the lightweight team. A sluggish beginning in the fall season left Harvard's ability in doubt around the league.
"The fall was not so great," said senior David Hirsch. "People began discounting us around the league. Yale was supposed to be the dominant team."
Things looked that way. Harvard faltered at Princeton's three-mile race, losing to Yale's first and second boats.
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