NEW YORK
In the hazy darkness of a new morning, a young woman climbs into a boat and pushes off into the Passaic River.
Gliding across the black water can sometimes bring her comfort. But it reminds her of all she’s lost, too.
Two years ago, Daisy Tackett was a rower at the University of Kansas. Then she says she was raped, starting a painful journey through a system she says failed her — and irreparably changed her. It has taken her out of KU and away from the sport she loves, back home to her parents in Florida and finally to New York University and this river just to the west in New Jersey.