Hatton got her chance in 1977, starting a three-year run as coxswain of the U.S. national team. She was working with women fresh off a bronze medal in Montreal who knew the size of the gap still separating them from the dominant crews of the Soviet bloc. The boat’s six-foot-one-inch hammer was Carie Graves, whose violent stroke seemed to come from some wild and ungovernable source, and whose raw power balanced precariously against her rough technique. There was steady, indefatigable Carol Brown, who had powered Princeton’s crews from a seat in their “engine room,” but who was learning to follow from her new position in the bow. Carol Bower was a natural athlete new to the team and relatively new to the sport. In the final strokes of the 1979 world championships in Bled, Yugoslavia, Bower had dropped her oar into the water just a few degrees off-angle. The blade instantly jerked underwater, slamming a brake on the boat, and the East Germans and Soviets pulled across the line ahead of the U.S. women., Holly Hatton began the New Year too heavy by 27 pounds. She had moved into a tiny, drafty room on the third floor of Harvard’s Weld Boathouse, and was methodically starving herself to get down to racing weight., In 2006, Hatton was named the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association’s Regional Coach of the Year. In 1991, Holly was inducted into the Rowing Hall of Fame. Holly brings a depth of experience rarely found at the high school level and we are extremely fortunate to have her as our Program Director..