I am a board member of Megunticook Rowing, and have been a competitive rower since college, competing nationally with Radcliffe Crew, and internationally with the 1981 US Lightweight crew, where I stroked the 4+ to an International Gold Medal.
After a few decades away, I returned to Maine and also took up rowing again as a sculler.
I have since joined the coaching team for Camden High School Rowers, working especially for the women who now have opportunities I had to create by petitioning to join the boy’s track team, threatening Title IX regulations. The boys jeered, but let me run, so that now at this point in my life, I row, ski, kayak, swim side by side with the men who should always have been my brothers.
A few years ago, A Maine Media Workshop colleague created a video about the meditative and healing qualities of rowing based on my rowing experiences on Megunticook Lake.