Light & VerityLightweight crewA Yale program puts local students behind the oars. ![]() Robert DesantoView full imageSome sports have a higher barrier to entry than others. A group of kids can’t just organize a crew regatta in the backyard, for example. But since 1999, the Yale Community Rowing program has introduced local students to the college’s oldest intercollegiate sport with a summer program at the Gilder Boathouse. This summer, 20 middle-school students from New Haven and the lower Naugatuck Valley learned the fundamentals of rowing using training barges on the Housatonic River. “They have a blast and cheer each other on,” Allison Braun, the assistant crew operations coordinator for Yale rowing, told It’s Your Yale. “We want them to be the best they can be and realize that you can do hard things, conquer them, and thrive.” |
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