I first learned to row because I wanted to escape the people I loved. My family spent summer weekends on a semi-rotted wooden sailboat. It was basically a floating camper van we drove up and down the ...

He spoke of his son who went to a rowing camp in Philadelphia, one of about 120 rowers there, and noted, "There were only three here. We felt there was a lot of room for improvement in Northeast Ohio.

One of the most decorated members of this season's Men's Rowing team began his career in a dinghy. Simon Van Dorp grew up on a houseboat in Amsterdam. He had his own dinghy and also "paddled around" ...