[2] Adair is best known as the author of The Challenge, her memoir about her experiences as the first female coxswain on the Harvard Men’s Heavyweight Crew team.
[4] Adair grew up in Boston and first starting coxing crew in high school at Phillips Academy.
[6] Her freshman year at Harvard, Adair coxed the First Frosh crew to an undefeated season culminating in winning The Ladies Plate at the Henley Royal Regatta.
Adair majored in English at Harvard, and in her senior year, starting writing about her experiences on the crew team as an independent study.
[7] Adair produced Break Point, starring Jeremy Sisto, J.K. Simmons and Amy Smart that premiered at SXSW.