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Friday, January 25, 2002 12:00 a.m.

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Dylan Cappel, an assistant rowing coach for the Wisconsin crew team, died of cancer Jan. 23 at 4:15 a.m. at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif.

Cappel rowed for UW, graduating in 2000. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Cappel had colon cancer for most of his tenure in Madison, but his condition was apparently misdiagnosed as a result of his fitness.

As a rower and a coach, Dylan proved an asset to the rowing program. He was a constant competitor, striving to be the best at whatever he did, yet was first and foremost a team player, according to those who knew him best — his teammates.

The 2000 crew voted him the winner of the Norm Sonju Award, Wisconsin rowing’s highest honor.

Cappel also competed as a member of the U.S. Team at the Under-23 World Championships in Hamburg, Germany, in 1999. He was named second assistant in September.

Varsity coach Chris Clark said both the men’s and women’s crew teams will miss Cappel.

“Dylan —his spirit, his integrity, his will to succeed and … his beautiful soul — was without equal and is precisely why … anyone has ever felt an athlete was ‘heroic,’” Clark said.

Cappel is survived by his fiance, Patricia Giandonato of Chicago; his parents, Barbara and Larry Cappel of Burlingam, Calif.; a younger sister, Jenna, of Madison; and his twin sister, Marissa.

—compiled from staff reports


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