Yale Rowing & Steve Gladstone: Building Great Athletes, People, and Teams

How to build a great team with Steve Gladstone and Yale Rowing

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As you can imagine, I consume a ton of information. Each year I come across a small handful of pieces that really blow me away… and this was one of those.

Yale University Rowing

Yale has been rowing since 1843 and racing since 1852. Rowing was the birth of intercollegiate athletic competition. It’s old and storied.

Steve Gladstone has coached more IRA Championship crews than anyone in the history of intercollegiate rowing. He is now the most successful coach in IRA National Championships history. Wherever Steve Gladstone goes, success follows.

How do Gladstone and Yale go about their business building young men and championship-winning crews?