Rowing Chat

The Candid Cox Cast: The Unstoppable Corne de Koning

Battling visual technical difficulties for the first minute or so, I chat with Paralympic and world-champion Dutch rower Corne de Koning, who is a man of SO many talents: in the gym, on the erg, in the boat, and in the kitchen. Corne talks about how to do alot of things, from how to get […]

The Candid Cox Cast: The Unstoppable Corne de Koning

Battling visual technical difficulties for the first minute or so, Paralympic and world-champion Dutch rower Corne de Koning is a man of SO many talents: in the gym, on the erg, in the boat, and in the kitchen. Corne talks about how to do alot of things, from how to get better at pull-ups to […]

The Candid Cox Cast: Dartmouth Lights are Cut

Dartmouth Lightweight Rowing has been suddenly cut…and they aren’t the only ones. Stanford and UConn are also gone. Three athletes from Dartmouth come on to tell us the heartbreaking story about how they found out, what reasons they heard for getting the axe, and what they’re doing about it. This story is as frustrating as […]

Speedcoach Summer Regatta Series

A brand new rowing competition just being launched. Be the first to hear about it from Alix James, President and CEO of Nielsen Kellerman. Timestamps 1:00 Background in sport – NK founded by Alix’s stepfather. 03:30 NK was the first company to do rowing electronics as a business. Friends with Ted Nash whose crew used […]

The Candid Cox Cast: Arshay Cooper’s Most Beautiful Thing

Rower, author, & speaker Arshay Cooper joins me to talk about how a group of all-black high schoolers in a rough area see a boat on campus one day and against all odds, become unlikely teammates that learn to trust and work as a very different kind of crew. Arshay’s infectious energy and stories about […]

The Candid Cox Cast: Realities of LGBTQ+ & Rowing (Michael Toutloff)

Michael from Chicago Rowing joins me to discuss how AWESOME the gay Games are and what the realities of LGBTQ+ athletes still deal with. This humbling episode really shows us how federations still don’t know how to “deal with” certain issues (this was fascinating!), how creative clubs are getting to recruit and include minorities and […]