Sentences with word «coxswain»

O'Neill paused, then said, «Well, you're the Iva of coxswains.»

We also offer the Diveboat Coxswain for Experienced Operators program.

Rather, because she was now a better coxswain.

At major competitions such as nationals, points are awarded to each boat in three 2,000 - meter races: the varsity eight (the boat with the eight strongest oars and the top coxswain), the second eight and, finally, the four, a smaller craft with only four rowers in which the cox must lie supine in the bow.

Rowing coxswain.

You can't change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.»

«Look,» said O'Neill, «you're the only coxswain we've got who's competed at NCAAs.

The boys were entered in the four - oared - shell - with - coxswain event.

«When we found we had nearly taken Navy,» said Coxswain Dean Matthews, «it was the greatest feeling in the world.»

ROWING — MEN»S PAIR WITH COXSWAIN: Bob Espeseth, Champaign, Ill.; Kevin Still, Los Angeles; Doug Herland, Bend, Ore..

But Washington's shrewd little Nordic - blond coxswain Dave Amundsen had husbanded the energy in his boat by holding off the Huskies» final sprint for an extra 100 meters, and Washington was able to match California's move.

He was popular, a lively coxswain for the crew team.

When not pounding the waves, the divides his attention between Kate (Leslie Hope), a mean - spirited former Harvard coxswain who inflates Tiff's hopes at making the team, and Slim (Helen Shaver), a world - weary Russian barkeep who tells Tiff to dry his oars.

At the center of the story is the one indispensable man, Bernie Webber, a young coxswain and a by - the - book seaman.

He had been a renowned coxswain in his rowing days, and he had also once been Becca's coach.

Constructed in 1816 as part of the Government Dockyard, it was build to accommodate the Government Coxswain — the officer responsible for government boats, their operations and crews.

You should then log your diving hours and seek a confirmation signature from the diver coxswain.

Beckside started out as a fisherman's cottage 250 years ago when Staithes was one of the busiest fishing ports on England's east coast and was at one point the home of the lifeboat coxswain.

Striking against the pastel tones was The Old Coxswain's * Cottage's just off - bright yellow front door.

He likes to say that there are three types of coxswain: the motivator, always rah - rah; the drill sergeant, ever demanding peak performance; and the airline pilot, cool and collected.

At the sprints on Burnaby Lake, coxswains for Cal and Washington needled their opposing crews until matter and mind finally won over mind

Jill was now a better coxswain.

Then she learned something else: Cal's top coxswain had been demoted to the second boat.

If there was any doubt about Jill's ability as a coxswain, it was gone.

For a moment, though, it's worth shifting your gaze to the stern, to the wispy figure of the coxswain.

After a promising junior season as a coxswain at Cal, she learned she was in the late stages of cancer.

Understand, Jill never set out to be a coxswain.

Lofman, ankle deep in the water, wrapped her arms around Jill, later swearing that she could feel the joy in her coxswain bubbling into the embrace.

The coxswain's role is twofold.

It is the coxswain's job to intrude upon each rower's silent battle, to find a way to get the most out of eight disparate personalities.

«She's as good an athlete as I've ever had as a coxswain,» says O'Neill.

O'Neill had conducted an e-mail poll of the top eight rowers, asking them to rank their top three coxswains.

The coxswain also acts as a surrogate coach, relaying information, determining strategy and providing motivation.

This means that from his pool of almost 50 rowers O'Neill can choose only 20 to compete, and from his eight coxswains, only three.

As the grinning Huskies amiably tossed their coxswain overboard and swapped shirts with the Bears, Washington Coach Fil Leanderson watched with a distant look in an eye that could be seeing as far as Tokyo.

The Russians will also be scarce in rowing, where 22 of the 28 rowers and coxswains have been barred by the The World Rowing Federation.

As a coxswain for the Welsh Senior Rowing IV, he took gold in the 1958 Home Countries International.

And so it is that the coxswain of motor lifeboat CG - 36500, Bernie Webber (Chris Pine, providing solid anchorage), leads a crew of three (Ben Foster's Seaman Richard Livesey, Kyle Gallner's Engineman Third Class Andy Fitzgerald, and John Magaro's Seaman Ervin Maske) to find the SS Pendleton and bring home alive its 33 mates.

The Finest Hours isn't so much interested in captainship per se (if you want to get technical, Pine's role hews closer to coxswain than captain this time), but it is still a movie that champions leadership and courageousness.

Or I could tell you, madame, monsieur, sir, madam, how this name was given to me — I was christened Parrot because my hair was colored carrot, because my skin was burned to feathers, and when I tumbled down into the whaler, the coxswain yelled, Here's a parrot, captain.

One of our coxswain licensed local guides will accompany you to one of many wonderful jet ski and / or snorkel locations in beautiful Port Douglas.

Imagine a rowing team without the coxswain.

And rowing without a coxswain — with all the mistakes, confusion and power battles that will probably take place before everyone does start rowing in the same direction — will exhaust those athletes.

Cadence does the same thing for great companies, except that, instead of a coxswain calling cadence, leaders like you use meetings to establish the rhythm of work.