High Point, NC – The following transcript is High Point rowing Club founder and coach Gene Kininmonth’s statement of proclamation for induction of Caroline Lind in to the Triad Rowers’ Hall of Fame:
“Caroline Lind, raised in your hometown of Greensboro, you are the daughter of Fred and Mary Lind, who are themselves prominent citizens of this community.
As a high school student you attended Andover Phillips Academy in Massachusetts where you first began rowing and helped your school to win the New England Boarding Schools Conference Championship.
In 2000, you were selected to the United States Junior National team and the next year at only 18 years of age, you were invited to train with the Senior National team.
After graduating high school you were accepted to Princeton University where in 2006 you were the stroke of the women’s varsity crew that went undefeated all year before winning the NCAA women’s eights championship.
That same year you won your first world championship in the USA women’s eight and went on to win further world championship titles in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2014 in the Women’s eight.
In 2008 you won Olympic gold in the USA women’s rowing eight-oared crew in Beijing and then repeated this amazing feat four years later, winning gold at the London Games in 2012.
In 2014 you were ranked number one female rower in the world by FISA, the governing body of the sport and you were inducted into USRowing’s Hall of Fame that same year.
For all of these achievements, it is my honor and privilege on this 19 day of November, 2016, to represent the nearly 200 coaches, rowers, parents and friends of the sport gathered here in this ball room to officially induct you into the Triad Rowers Hall of Fame.
Congratulations.
