Caroline Lind
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Lind with her gold medal from the 2012 Olympics.
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| Nationality | American |
| Born | October 11, 1982 Greensboro, North Carolina |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
| Weight | 175 lb (79 kg) |
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| Country |  United States |
| Sport | Rowing |
| College team | Princeton University |
| Club | USRowing Training Center |
| Coached by | Tom Terhaar |
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Caroline Lind (born October 11, 1982) is an American rower, and is a two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the end of 2014 she was ranked the #1 female rower by World Rowing.[1]
Rowing career
Prior to the 2012 Olympics, Lind 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. 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. In 2014, Lind with her W8+ teammates from 2008 Olympics was inducted into the US Rowing Hall of Fame. In 2014, Lind was named Athlete of the Year by the New York Athletic Club.
Education and background
Lind graduated from Phillips Academy in 2002. In 2003, she became a national debutante, at The National Debutante Cotillion and Thanksgiving Ball in Washington, D.C.. She attended Princeton University for college, graduating in 2006. At Princeton, Lind received the C. Otto von Kienbusch Sportswoman of the Year Award, given to a Princeton senior woman of high scholastic rank who has demonstrated general proficiency in athletics and qualities of a true sportswoman, as well as the Carol P. Brown Senior Woman Award by her Princeton teammates for being a source of inspiration, dedication, and perseverance in pursuit of excellence. Lind pursued an M.B.A. with an Accounting Concentration at Rider University, in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, graduating in December 2010.
See also
- List of Princeton University Olympians
- Rowing (sport)
- Erin Cafaro
- Anna (Mickelson) Cummins
- Caryn Davies
- Susan Francia
- Anna Goodale
- Elle Logan
- Lindsay Shoop
- Mary Whipple
References
External links
- Caroline Lind – National Team rower profile at Usrowing.org
- Caroline Lind on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- [1] Visualizing the Perfect Race
- Pages with broken file links
- 1982 births
- Living people
- Princeton University alumni, 2000–09
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States
- Olympic rowers of the United States
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Greensboro, North Carolina
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Female rowers
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- American sportswomen
- World Rowing Championships medalists
