Ned DelGuercio Shares Tips on Coxing a 2k
Anything that comes through your microphone should be useful information. Thinking out loud can make you a liability to your crew’s performance.
Read the collection of tips and advice for coxswains by national team coxswains, rowers and coaches.
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Marcus McElhenney’s Tips for When You’re Behind
Remember the rowers are listening to you and no matter what the situation you can always take a positive tone.
Marcus McElhenney Discusses Getting Involved
Do as much as the rowers and then more.
Losing weight as a coxswain
Team USA coxswain Pete Cipollone shares his thoughts on losing weight as a coxswain
Coaching Novice Coxswains
Team USA coxswain Pete Cipollone shares his thoughts on coaching novice coxswains.
Rowing experience for coxswains
Olympic Gold Medalist Pete Cipollone shares his views on coxswains getting rowing experience.
The Longest Odds
It started with an innocent question:
What does it really look like to train for the Olympics?
After seven years, I was finally able to answer that question.
About SHIVSPIX
Imagine, a device that lets you stop a moment in time. You can’t change time or turn it back, but with a camera you can make time stand still, capture a moment and revisit it forever.
It’s that amazement and awe that keeps me reaching for my camera(s) and has allowed me to see places, meet people, make friends, and go on journeys I could have never imagined.
Go behind the scenes and see the images of how rowers train day to day to make it on to the National and Olympic teams.
Read the stories of struggle and triumph of athletes who dared to pursue their dreams despite the longest of odds.
There’s nothing more personal than a portrait, whether it’s in front of a simple white background or doing what you love most.
Project Open Archive
Opening up the archives
Marcus McElhenney Discusses Setting the Right Tone
Team USA coxswain Marcus McElhenney shares how to set the right tone to gain a competitive advantage
Learning from the coxswain seat
Feeling the changes from the seat is such an essential part of learning, so I am not sure there is anything you can read that will get you there.
The Hard Winter Months: A Coxswain in the Winter
Now is the time to listen to those recordings that we took months back and never listened to because we hate to.
The Role of a National Team Coxswain
At the elite level, there are two responsibilities that all coxswains must do all the time, and those are to be at weight (55.0 kg) and to steer straight.
The Longest Odds
Go behind the scenes of the Olympic Journey with The Longest Odds, a photo-documentary that goes inside the Beijing and London Olympic journey of the US Olympic rowing team.
This book illustrates what you do not see on television – it’s a raw look at what athletes go through during their years-long journeys much before anything appears on television.
The Longest Odds allows us to see those highs and lows, the conflicts, joy, exhaustion, elation, fear – and most of all, the bonds of friendship being indelibly forged.