Rowing

gold medal rowing champion Joe Rantz contacted the author, Daniel James Brown, to discuss the central character of the book, who happened to be the champion’s childhood friend. On his deathbed, Rantz started to weakly tell Brown his life story, and Brown decided that his story could not go untold, and sat down to write “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.” Although rowing has lost its popularity in modern times, in its prime, rowing…

We watch as athletes train while they are forced to balance their professions and families. For rowers without disabilities, the paths to success have been paved by many. U.S. Rowing states, if an athlete devotes 10 years and 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, they might become an elite rower (Ericsson, 1996). For adaptive rowers, the path to an elite level has been done by a few. Many programs are recreational and do not entail…

University of Washington rowing team participated in the Berlin Olympics crew race, and they finally won the gold medal. Joyce and Joe’s sibling feel exciting after they heard this good news through radio. Leni Riefenstahl also wanted to make a film in order to record this honorable moment. After reading this book, I found out that the ways that audiences watch or hear a crew race now is really different from in 1930s. In chapter 18, after German, Italian and American rowing team stormed toward…

Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat chronicles the journey of Joseph Rantz and the other members of the University of Washington Rowing team in its quest for a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. Joseph Rantz was born on March 31, 1914, in Spokane Washington. Rantz had a rough childhood growing up without his birth mother and having to adapt to his ever-changing situation, whether it be living with an aunt that he has never known or getting along with his step-mother who shows no affection for him…

spent giving back to my crew. During the fall, the crew team conducts learn to row sessions allowing kids interested in rowing in the spring to get a feel on how to row a boat and to see if they enjoy the experience. Four years ago I was one of those new rowers and the help from the older rowers made my experience learning to row ten times better. Every year after I started rowing I would…

In the past few months, I have had the invaluable opportunity to observe one of the Athletic Trainers at The University of Miami and see firsthand what it is like to work for a Division 1 athletic program. Many people never see what goes on behind the scenes in order for their favorite athletes to perform at the highest level during sporting events. Being in the Athletic Training Facility gave me this exposure and helped me to understand just how essential the role of the athletic trainer is for…

the sport for nine years. Unfortunately, I was forced to retire from skating, due to some serious calf issues involving 3 surgeries. For this reason, I transitioned to rowing; which is a non-impact sport that would allow me to continue training at a high-performance level; even with my chronic calf condition. The switch to rowing required quite an adjustment, as I went from something that was highly technical and where you always had to look elegant and pretty; to a sport where power and…

Quest for Gold in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The book centers around the rowing crew for the University of Washington Huskies and their work as a team as they moved from their freshmen year to their growth as a rowing unit that competes in the 1936 Berlin Olympics at the height of tensions surrounding Germany and the rise of Hitler. In one part of the book, the author describes a term called "The Swing" in rowing. Rowing in an eight-man/woman boat is very difficult. Trying to be in sync and…

comes from the differences in the sports. Rowing requires everyone in the boat to work together, as opposed to cross…

Perseverance is “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition,” according to Merriam-Webster: Dictionary and Thesaurus. Many characters in this book persevere as they try to figure out how to deal with what life throws at them. In the novel Trouble, the main character, Henry, has his older brother hit and killed by Chay in an accident. Chay is a Cambodian immigrant who attends Henry’s school, and gets bullied because of his cultural differences.…