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New Canaan's Charlie Cole Takes First in Men’s Four Rowing Preliminary
Cole, 26, a graduate of New Canaan High School, and his team "had a great morning" on Monday, finishing first in their Men's Four preliminary heat, according to a report on NBC Connecticut.
Former New Canaan resident Charlie Cole and his fellow rowers have reportedly advanced to the semifinals in Men's Four rowing at the 2012 Olympics.
According to a report on NBC Connecticut, Cole, 26, a graduate of , and his team "had a great morning" on Monday, finishing first in their Men’s Four preliminary heat.
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Cole and his teammates — Scott Gault (Piedmont, Calif.), Henrik Rummel (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Glenn Ochal (Philadelphia) — will next move on to the Men's Four rowing semifinals, scheduled for 5:10 a.m. Thursday. The finals are scheduled for 5:30 a.m. Saturday.
Cole reportedly got his start in rowing at Norwalk's Maritime Rowing Club during his freshman year at NCHS in 1999.
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"Rowing in New Canaan was just starting then, so the program wasn't very developed, but I thought I would try it out," Cole said in a recent report in the CT Post. "It took a long time before I realized I could be decent."
But Cole said he kept at it because "the coaches were encouraging and because I was seeing a lot of incremental progress."
"I wasn't great when I started, and it was that way for a while," he told the CT Post. "The program grew up while I was there and that energy made it fun to come down to the boathouse."
For more check out the report on NBC Connecticut.
