Similarly, at the two Head of the Charles banquets I’ve attended, the first thing Parker has done is to call the members of the third and fourth varsity eights to stand up so their accomplishments can be recognized.
While covering the team last year, I watched the fourth varsity eight walk away from Princeton’s 3V, and Harvard’s 3V maintain overlap with its own 2V. Just this past weekend, the Crimson’s E four took sixth overall, ahead of its own C and D fours as well as Brown’s B four.
The determination of non-1V/2V rowers has kept the entire team on its toes and will continue to do so this winter.
When 1V and 2V rowers attribute their own successes to rowers in the 3V and 4V, it’s not to be nice.
It’s a statement of fact.
—Staff writer Christina C. McClintock can be reached at ccmcclin@fas.harvard.edu.