A college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.

Ariana Grande's mom Joan Grande and dad Ed Butera have supported her career from the beginning Ilana Frost is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.

However, through all of the media coverage, the name of the race’s founder is seldom spoken. In the early 1980s, Jim Butera was working at a running shoe store outside of Denver and was president of ...