Posts Tagged ‘Women’

28 December

The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water (Paperback)

The Red Rose Crew: A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water

From Library Journal

Boyne (Essential Sculling), a former women’s varsity rowing coach at Tufts University, has written an exhilarating story about the early days of the U.S. women’s national rowing team. Noting that society in the 1970s was radically different from today’s, the author details some of the obstacles faced by women attempting to enter the male-dominated sport of rowing, especially in the Ivy League. The reader also learns a great deal about the complexity of rowing (more…)