In response to: Walk-On Tradition Helps Keep Rowing Teams Afloat
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Although I got my master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton, it was as an undergraduate at MIT that I was a crew walk-on, never having been in a shell before, having to compete against a crop of much taller very experienced rowers. But I made the heavyweight varsity, beating Harvard twice. And now, I’m still rowing in my 80s, doing 8 kilometers every other morning in a single on a nearby lake.