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They all say the same thing. Grace Rett was the heart of the team.
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She was dedicated, smart, funny and noble. She was also prompt, which is maybe why she wound up riding shotgun in the lead van when the Holy Cross women’s rowing team set out for morning practice on a local lagoon in Vero Beach, Fla.
Rett was killed on Jan. 15 when the van was struck by a red pickup. The Holy Cross head coach — who’d been driving — and six other members of the team were hospitalized.
No one who was there that day will ever be the same, but this weekend the survivors of the crash, all members of the Holy Cross team, and the expansive Grace Rett Community will engage in a virtual rowing challenge designed to honor Grace’s record and build a gym in her name at Our Lady of the Valley Regional School in Uxbridge.
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