Pull Hard!: Finding Grit and Purpose on Cougar Crew, 1970-2020

"Look at what you guys have started…come back here in fifty years and you won't believe what this has grown into."-legendary Husky rowing coach Dick Erickson in 1973, to Cougar rowers after a disappointing season of losses In the summer of 1968, Washington State University civil engineering student Rich Stager watched Olympic rowers compete on television. Captivated, he decided to see if he could generate any interest in the sport on campus. Two years later, sixty-three students and three p...