Completed Event: Women's Rowing at Sarasota 2K on March 27, 2026 ,
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Women's Rowing
at Sarasota 2K
Judy Geer
6/1/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Rowing
If Judy Geer had been born two years earlier, she would not have had the opportunity to go to Dartmouth, or row, or be on three Olympic teams.
Last year she attended the 30th reunion of the first Dartmouth women's crew team, and was amazed at how many of the women are still involved in rowing. Some are coaching and several, including Geer, have daughters who will be rowing together at Dartmouth.
Geer and her counterparts were Dartmouth pioneers. She arrived as a junior transfer from Smith in 1973, the second year Dartmouth had women as students. Some women in these early classes reported encountering hostility, but Geer remembers her experience as positive. "I had a great time. I just stayed as far away from fraternities as possible.
For her, the decision to transfer was natural. "I knew I didn't like it at Smith early on," she says. "There weren't enough kindred spirits. I was really ready for a change." At the time, Smith College didn't have the sports she was interested in. There was no rowing, and she found herself doing synchronized swimming instead of swim team.
Dartmouth was also her family's school. "My father and my uncles, and some grandfathers, had all been part of Dartmouth -- so I was raised wearing green to football games. I announced during high school that I wanted to go to Dartmouth, but I had to wait to have the chance." The year she applied to college was one year too early to apply to Dartmouth.
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