I'm just making sure no one wanders off with Jono's lap.

At the Head of the Charles in 2001. I was unable to compete with Tufts, due to eligibility issues from national team racing. Anna MacCormack, Jono Murphy, myself, and Leah Brunski are sitting on the docks at Newell Boathouse, on the Cambridge shore just short of the two mile marker.

Ryan Steeb rocking the quality boufant, fall of 2000.

FISA World Rowing Championships (Lake Jarun/Zagreb, Croatia)

Torgy and Ben wear their medals on the way back to Hotel i from the racecourse at Zagreb.
This was at the rowing world championships in Croatia, where I coxed the heavyweight four. The crew was Ben Holbrook at stroke, Jim Neil, Garrett Klugh, and Ryan Torgerson at bow. We came second behind the Brits, by about 1.8 seconds.

National team blades, mid-paintjob, at the Princeton boathouse in late July of 2000. They are getting prepped for Worlds and the Sydney Olympics.

A straight four boats out onto a misted, millpond Lake Carnegie in July of 2000. Selection for Olympic boats is going on.

I'm taking this photo from just inside the bay doors of the Princeton University boathouse, which was in the middle of being refurbished and expanded (at great expense) that summer for the college crews and for the national squad's use.

A straight four and a pair launching for a morning workout.

Lake Carnegie is piss flat. The orange buckets have orange string looped between them, and are set up at the edges of the docks to keep away the Canada geese. Canada geese are absolute shitfiends, and will foul a quarter acre of dock in fifteen minutes, flat.

Waterskiing at Mark Flickinger's house, during the summer of 2000 with the under-23 USRowing selection camp. This is on Keuka Lake, which is absurdly clear. Pete Giese laughs on the left, Brian Bauer sits in the right foreground, Dylan Cappel looks on from the right background, and Ed Golding fiddles with his camera. Flick is driving the boat, and Jim Murphy is styling on a chair perched on a wooden tabletop.

Anne Andrews: boozehound.


Anne was another coxswain on the Tufts men's squad. I was pretty fond of her, but I've got absolutely no idea where she is or what she's doing. The last time I saw her was in 2001. I was in the World's trials for the pair-with John Raser (Dartmouth) and Alan Geweke (Wisconsin). We had just finished second in the second day of trials, and so had been eliminated. We were rowing back, somewhat dejected, to the Princeton docks. Passing under the bridge, I heard a piping voice scream out "Jeff Lindy is a sexy bitch!"

Not the most appropriate moment for that, though I appreciated the sentiment.

Another photo of the 2000 crew, after our race in the finals at New Englands.

This crew pulled off a minor coup in the heats by knocking UNH (the previous year's champ) out of the grand finals. (We finished second, about six seats over New Hampshire, and a touch back from Williams who won the heat.)

We finished DFL in the final, but it was an accomplishment for us to get there at all.

2000 Tufts V8

This was the junior year crew.

back row: Mike Friedberg, Britt Windeler, Erik Meserve, Shane Black-Macken, Chris Mitchell, Grady Knight

front row: Ben Wilkinson, Jeff Lindy, Matt Waterson

coach (not pictured): Ted Benford 

Anne Andrews airborne after a victory in spring 2000 (over BC, I think, with the junior varsity crew). Nathan Rolander gives the wolf's grin at left.

Grady visits the pain locker, at the end of a series of Powerhouse pieces that Coach Benford was putting the crew through in mid-spring of 2000. Shane rocks the Yankees cap, and a little piece of Chris's face pokes over his left shoulder. We are just downstream of the Eliot footbridge, and the cupolas in the background are Harvard.

The Tufts men's varsity eight begins a Powerhouse piece in the spring of 2000. We're just coming up on the Riverside docks; Polaroid headquarters is on the right.

Preparing to shove from Newell docks for a practice, spring of 2000. Grady smiles in the foreground, trying to keep his mind off the 5x5' workout to come.

The boat is empty and waiting to be put away after a spring practice. Britt is putting on his jacket near the bow. Matt Waterson's foot is in the left of the frame. This shell was the Rocky Carzo, and was brand new at the time. It's rowed by the third varsity or second frosh these days.

Grady at the release

This is 2000, spring. Junior year.

Grady was stroke, Shane was behind him in seven seat. We had the "rebel colors" on our oars; we refused to paint the ugly brown, and left it the matte gray "factory finish" that they came with from Concept II.