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07.14: Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX
2015-06-16 23:04:39| Powells Books Events Calendar
Wild meets The Boys in the Boat in Ginny Gilder's Course Correction (Beacon Press), a memoir about the quest for Olympic gold and the triumph of love over fear. Forty years ago, when a young Gilder stood on the edge of Boston's Charles River and first saw a rowing shell in motion, it was love at first sight. As a freshman at Yale in 1975, she found her way to the university's rowing tanks in the gymnasium's cavernous basement. From her first strokes as a novice, Gilder found herself in a new world, training with Olympic rowers and participating in the famous Title IX naked protest, which helped define the movement for equality in college sports. Gilder made the team against all odds and for the next 10 years devoted herself to answering a seemingly simple question: How badly do you want to go fast? Course Correction recounts the physical and psychological barriers Gilder overcame as she transformed into an elite athlete who reached the highest echelon of her sport.
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