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Beautiful and important on many levels?Course Correction?is about rowing and so much more . . . Ultimately it is about the transforming power of love and damnit all it made me cry.Daniel James Brown author of?The Boys in the Boat
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Written with poetic grace and true grit . . . ?A powerful testament to the impact of sport on our lives.Billie Jean King

Wild meets The Boys in the Boat a memoir about the quest for Olympic gold and the triumph of love over fear
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Forty years ago when a young Ginny Gilder stood on the edge of Bostons Charles River and first saw a rowing shell in motion it was love at first sight. Yearning to escape her family history which included her mothers emotional unraveling and her fathers singular focus on investment acumen as the ultimate trophy Gilder discovered rowing at a pivotal moment in her life. Having grown up in an era when girls were only beginning to abandon the sidelines as observers and cheerleaders to become competitors and national champions?? Gilder harbored no dreams of athletic stardom. Once at Yale?? however?? her operating assumptions changed nearly overnight when?? as a freshman in 1975?? she found her way to the university??s rowing tanks in the gymnasium??s cavernous basement.
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From her first strokes as a novice?? Gilder found herself in a new world?? training with Olympic rowers and participating in the famous Title IX naked protest?? which helped define the movement for equality in college sports