Today on the show we talked to All-Americans Eli Smirin and Nelson Bellows from the Men’s Crew team! The team won its first four races of the spring season and most-recently finished runner-up at the New England Championships. Eli is from Cali and Nelson is from Cambridge, Mass. Both have been on the V8 boat since their freshman year and achieved quite a bit in their four years including multiple Little Three titles, a NESCAC Championship, New England title, and the first National Championship in team history. In this episode we kick off with a Senior Assassins deep dive before getting into all things rowing, the different seats on the boat, different types of strokes, how they got into the sport, stories from out on the water, a weird but authentic respect and camaraderie among the NESCAC programs, and much more.