25 Years of BIR: Stories That Shaped Us

When Chapple reflects on how she found rowing, she starts long before she ever walked into the BIR boathouse. “I went to high school pre Title IX. There were no soccer matches or softball games or swimming meets for girls. There was just P.E...

When Walker Hauptman was little, his mom, Katie Jennings remembers a boy who met the world with cheerful determination. “Walker’s first sentence was, ‘Big rock, I can pick it up,’” she says. “As a kid he took on physical challenges with cheerful...