THE SPORT OF ROWING FISA 1976 Video 1976 United States Camp Women’s Eight Coxswain Lynn Silliman watching the GDR crew in the next lane. 7 Anita DeFrantz, 0°, +20° to -20°, 0-7, 0-10, 0-10 Stroke Jackie Zoch, +5°, +20° to -20°, 0-5, 0-10, 6-10 Body mechanics were Modern Orthodox segmented-force Kernschlag. A third Wisconsin rower, undergrad Peggy McCarthy, the only National Team newcomer, rounded out the boat in 3. McCarthy: “It was a whirlwind. Two years of rowing, no prior athletic experience, just finished the school year and all of a sudden I found myself on the way to Montréal. I felt very unprepared, and as a result, extremely nervous. I can’t remember much except for Marion Greig getting sick at the medal ceremony.”5923 Technique The technique of the 1976 Crew reflected the disparate sources of the camp participants who made the final boating. Ricketson in bow rowed a beautiful sculler’s Schubschlag 0-8, 0-10, 0-10 with -30° of layback, and Brown in 2 rowed Kernschlag 5923 McCarthy, personal correspondence, 2011 bordering on Schubschlag, but it was 0-7, 0- 7, 7-10 with only -15° of layback, and she was connected to the boat only until her legs and back were flat at 70% of the pullthrough. Graves and Zoch, the Wisconsin women in 6 and stroke, had the fastest legs in the boat, pure segmented-force Kernschlag, more than in 1975, and it was their technique which set the tone for the boat as a whole. Zoch: “About four weeks before the Olympic boat was named, I ended up in the infirmary with a low grade infection due to throwing water from the Charles onto my face during practice to cool off. Harry was not happy, and we all started using water bottles. At that point I found out that I was Harry’s standard measure. He was seat racing me against everyone to determine 1660
