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Introducing 'More Than Rowing, Kent School Boat Club, The First 100 Years'

The Sport of Rowing author Peter Mallory will be coming out with a new book, More Than Rowing, Kent School Boat Club, The First 100 Years.  more

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1932: An Excerpt from 'More Than Rowing, Kent School Boat Club, The First 100 Years'

This week I present the 1932 Boys section nearly in its final form; by its tenth year of rowing in 1932, upwards of one third of the student body participated each spring.  more

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Water Ready Chapter Two - Boathouse Organization

Water Ready Chapter Two - Boathouse Organization: How a Two-Pile System Can Help You Avoid Disaster  more

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Water Ready Chapter One - Health and Safety: Germs be Gone

Nine actions to keep your equipment safe and free of germs  more

Book Excerpt
Women's Voices in Rowing: Judy Geer

In this excerpt from the new book "Women's Voices in Rowing," former Czech rower Daniela Nachazelova talks to former US national team and Olympic rower (and Concept2 engineer) Judy Geer.  more

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Book Excerpt: 'We Needed a Test'

In this excerpt from her new book, "Better Great Than Never," author Lindsay Shoop details the experiences of the 2006 USA Women's Eight at the World Championships in Eton, Great Britain.  more

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Lessons from Rowing: The Search for a Better Way to Succeed

There's no question that elite sport is a tough business. But there is an increasingly sinister edge to many of these stories. Is this just part of the tough business of sport? How are we setting athletes up for these big moments in their lives? What expectations, what narratives and what images dominate?  more

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Holidays 2020: Reads for Rowers

2020 was a good year for rowing books; here's a selection to keep the rower(s) in your life happy over the holidays!  more

row2k Book Exclusives
Lessons from Rowing: Take Responsibility for Sharing Leadership

An excerpt from Adam Kreek's book 'The Responsibility Ethic,' on strategies exceptional people use to do the work and make success happen.  more

A not very well known story about George and Stan Pocock
Grasping the Shadow

When Pocock Racing Shells was essentially subsidizing the Sport of Rowing in North America; an excerpt from Peter Mallory's Sport of Rowing.  more

Training at Harvard
On This One; a chapter from Toby Ayer's book about Harry Parker

A chapter from Toby Ayer's book in progress about Harry Parker, describing a full season from a few years ago; the events in the excerpt occurred in March during Harvard practices and selection.  more

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'Pieces of Eight,' by Chris Dodd

The recent North Korean flag mix-up on the eve of the London 2012 Games reminded rowing historian and journalist Christopher Dodd of a similar flap at the start of the 1975 Rowing World Championships, which he recounted in his book, 'Pieces of Eight.'  more

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Book Excerpt: The Sultan's Helmsman

An excerpt from The Sultan's Helmsman, the new novel by row2k columnist Rob Colburn.  more

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Ernestine Bayer: Mother of U.S. Women's Rowing

Two excerpts from Lew Cuyler's authorized biography of Ernestine Bayer.  more

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Foreword to Dan Boyne's The Red Rose Crew

From David Halberstam: "The young women in this book are pioneers-they triumphed not merely over the favored Russian and Romanian women in England, but their greatest triumphs were back in their own country against all the prejudices of the era about what women were not supposed to do."  more