Sujit M. Raman
As a freshman novice, he crashed his crew boat into an oncoming sailboat. Three years later, he was elected captain of the team.
Sujit M. Raman '00 is a Marshall scholar, headed nest year to the University of Bristol to study sociology. Before every success, however, comes a failure. Raman's came in dramatic fashion.
On an early spring day in 1997, Raman was a novice coxswain guiding a boat full of freshman lightweight rowers through the Charles River. As they headed towards the path of an oncoming sailboat, he thought his boat could continue full-speed ahead and pass without harm.
"I didn't know the rules of the river," he says now. "It turns out that sailboats have the right of way."
Sure enough, the boats headed towards a "face-off," as he describes it, and the crew boat took the brunt of the damage. Its bow snapped off, and the boat began taking on water.
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