The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/rowing/)
Cornell’s No. 1-ranked lightweight rowing team defeated Columbia to reclaim the Geiger Cup in its race on Saturday at the Cayuga Lake Inlet. The two schools have gone back and forth in victories over the past seasons, with Cornell winning in odd years — 2015, 2017 and now in 2019.
“We’ve had success in the last number of years at the Chase but nothing like this. It was a great Sunday for family and alumni who came out to support us especially after the bad weather on Saturday.”
“We see many opportunities to improve our racing tenacity this week.”
“With several months of winter training on the horizon there is reason to believe that significant improvement is possible.”
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Dennison’s new role will entail supervision of the program, coordinating training and establishing a budget, among other responsibilities.
For another year, Cornell men’s lightweight rowers are on top.
“The majority of walk-on athletes just do not have the time to learn the skill in order to compete with recruits who may have been rowing for years.”
Cornell’s top-ranked men’s lightweights took its fifth Platt Cup in the last six attempts.
“We will talk a lot about how to manage that and execute at a high level three times over the course of the weekend.”