Caroline Lind

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caroline Lind

Lind with her gold medal from the 2012 Olympics.
Personal information
Nationality American
Born (1982-10-11) October 11, 1982
Greensboro, North Carolina
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 175 pounds (79 kg)
Sport
Country  United States
Sport Rowing
College team Princeton University
Club USRowing Training Center
Coached by Tom Terhaar
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold 2008 Beijing Women's eight
Gold 2012 London Women's eight
World Championships
Gold 2006 Eton W8+
Gold 2007 Munich W8+
Gold 2009 Poznań W8+
Gold 2011 Bled W8+
Gold 2013 Chungju W8+
London 2012

Caroline Lind (born October 11, 1982) is an American rower, and is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. In her Olympic debut at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Lind won a gold medal as a member of the women's eight team. It was the first gold medal for the American women's eight team since 1984. Four years later at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Lind again won gold as a member of the women's eight team. She has won World Championship titles in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 in the Women's eight.

Personal life

Lind graduated from Phillips Academy in 2002 and Princeton University in 2006, where she was named the C. Otto von Kienbusch Sportswoman of the Year Award. This award is given to a Princeton senior woman of high scholastic rank who has demonstrated general proficiency in athletics and qualities of a true sportswoman. She was also named the Carol P. Brown Senior Woman by her Princeton teammates, for being a source of inspiration, dedication, and perseverance in pursuit of excellence.

In 2003, she became a national debutante, at The National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball in Washington, D.C..

Lind pursued an M.B.A. with an Accounting Concentration at Rider University, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The degree was granted Dec. 2010 and she achieved Beta Gamma Sigma.

Prior to the 2012 Olympics, she was a member of the W8+ Boat for Worlds 2011 in Bled, Slovenia where they won gold. At Fall NSR 2011, she and Elle Logan won long course in the W2- event.

See also

References

    External links

    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.