“As coaches our job is to educate, and the commitment to work is a lesson that will follow these athletes long after they graduate.” Jake Cornelius is a 2006 Stanford Alum, 2012 Olympic Rower, and recently completed his first year as...

Top coxswains are already really good at admitting their mistakes, asking for help, and accepting criticism. But the next step, the extra step that will make them indispensable for making crews faster, is the ability to apply what they know...

Everything you feel about criticism is wrong. It’s not that everything you know is wrong – you’ve probably heard some correct things before, just poorly worded and unconvincing. Precisely because that wording did not...

It’s a shame when coxswains collectively take a cue from bad leadership, and there’s one bad leadership habit that appears to show up in at least one coxswain on every rowing team. It goes something like this: “Because I am...