Thank for the list of Princeton’s top athletes. I would like to add to the record the historic firsts achieved by rowers Carol Brown ’75 and Caroline Lind ‘06. Thanks to Title IX, Carol was in the founding class of women’s rowing at Princeton at the outset of coeducation. Her bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games was the first time women were allowed to compete in Olympic rowing. Caroline was an inheritor of Carol’s legacy. In 2008, she won gold in the women’s eight, becoming Princeton’s first female Olympic gold medalist in the summer games. In 2012, she won gold again in London, becoming Princeton’s first female double gold Olympic medalist. Both women were groundbreakers “in the nation’s service” and continue to inspire the current generation of rowers at Princeton.
Thank for the list of Princeton’s top athletes. I would like to add to the record the historic firsts achieved by rowers Carol Brown ’75 and Caroline Lind ‘06. Thanks to Title IX, Carol was in the founding class of women’s rowing at Princeton at the outset of coeducation. Her bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games was the first time women were allowed to compete in Olympic rowing. Caroline was an inheritor of Carol’s legacy. In 2008, she won gold in the women’s eight, becoming Princeton’s first female Olympic gold medalist in the summer games. In 2012, she won gold again in London, becoming Princeton’s first female double gold Olympic medalist. Both women were groundbreakers “in the nation’s service” and continue to inspire the current generation of rowers at Princeton.