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Speaker 1: Rowing will teach you perseverance.

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Speaker 2: Tom Leonard is president of the Naponset Rowing Club.

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Speaker 1: You can tell when you've had a good race and

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Speaker 1: a bad race, and a bad race is when you

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Speaker 1: cross the finish line and you have something left.

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Speaker 2: He says, rowing is too beneficial to be locked behind

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Speaker 2: financial barriers and gate kept inside private schools. That's why

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Speaker 2: his club's mission is to recruit people who never thought

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Speaker 2: rowing was in the cards, or.

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Speaker 3: Maybe a kid hasn't even considered themselves to be athletic.

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Speaker 3: Before we get those.

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Speaker 2: Kids, the club offers programs for all ages, and even

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Speaker 2: scholarships for people who might not have been able to

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Speaker 2: afford the sport otherwise. From Milton Jeremy Russ WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 2: news radio