Hard Work and Heart on the Water

Through frigid winter mornings and bright spring afternoons, you’ll find Fordham students Elizabeth Cochran and Nora Donahue on the open water of the Bronx’s Eastchester Bay. That’s the kind of grit it takes to sail with Fordham’s overachieving club team.

Here, the duo is in perfect sync: Donahue (right) steers and trims the sail, while Cochran hikes out, throwing her weight over the edge to keep the boat flat and fast.

The physical demands of the sport are intense, but the reward is the community. “It gives me something to be really disciplined for. I get this little family of people all my age,” Donohue says. “We fight like siblings, we love like siblings,” Cochran adds. “I think that’s what I really love the most.”