Two months ago, four freshmen met for the first time. 50 days later, they are rowing champions.
Merrick Word-Brown ’28, Peter Mueller ’28, Aiden Parsa ’28 and Alex Slezak ’28 joined Cornell Rowing Club with a combined zero years of rowing experience. But on Oct. 26, the four frosh represented CRC at The Head of The Fish Regatta in Saratoga Springs, New York, beating out multiple Division-I and Division-III schools en route to gold.
Completing the 3.2K race in 13:35.68, CRC outpaced 10 competitors despite facing headwind conditions…