Rhythm on the River

UNLOCKING TAMPA BAY with Bryan Burns The last time I sat in a rowing shell was the spring of 1999. I was the two seat on the novice men’s eight at the University of Miami, wrapping up my freshman season with a trip to the Big East Championships in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.—a city I already knew well from growing up an hour away in West Virginia. I’d spent countless weekends there as a teenager, wandering M Street and soaking in the energy of the place. Seeing it from the middle of the