the two times that i know of that my HS was in the news were both rowing related. back when i went there, there was a car accident involving the rowing team. we had just finished a regatta downriver of detroit, and we had two vans the the crew rode in. the first one pulled the trailer with the shells (boats) on it, and the other followed. the first van stopped suddenly and the second van slammed into the back of the trailer, with three boats spearing into the van. it killed one coach, injured my coach (who was driving) and put a pretty large hole in the chest of one of my friends.
that was back in the spring of 1990.
more recently, and much more happily, a crew from st. mary's went to the henly regatta in england (essentially the world championships). they took second and only lost by four or five feet.
sadly my crew wasn't quite that good. we were only third on the continent and first in america.
