I'm Boris Diderich, a Dutch-born sculler training with Cambridge Boat Club on the Charles River, home of the world's biggest regatta. I moved from the Netherlands to Boston in 2018 and chose the harder path of sculling over the default route. This year I rowed in the crew that won gold at the USRowing Northeast Youth Championships and placed fourth at Nationals, and this fall I race the Head of the Charles on my home water. I train around three hours a day, with a 6:51 2k and a clear target of sub-6:10. Off the water, I turn goals into numbers: my school waste project puts a weekly figure in front of every student, and I reached the top 20 of Youth Athlete of the Year, raising money for DTCare. I'm also running a multi-year research project on the neuroscience of pain, which I think about every time a race gets hard. I'm looking for a partner who backs athletes on the way up, not just at the top.