2002
Caroline M. Lind Caroline Lind ’02 initially played softball, basketball, and water polo and ran track at Andover. Following an injury that prevented her return to the softball field, Lind decided to try crew during her lower year; she was in the first varsity boat by the end of that year, and by 2000 she had secured a spot on the junior national rowing team. After Andover, Lind went on to Princeton, where she continued to row and earned a BA degree in anthropology. During her senior year, 6
she was named the C. Otto von Kienbusch Sportswoman of the year by Princeton’s athletic department and led the Tigers to an NCAA National Championship in crew. After graduating in 2006, Lind joined the U.S. women’s rowing team. In 2008, she won her first Olympic gold medal as part of the women’s eight boat in the Beijing Olympic Games; the team again won Olympic gold in the London games in 2012. Lind was the first Princeton rower to win multiple Olympic gold medals. She
also was a member of world rowing championship teams in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013. In 2014, Lind and other members of the 2008 Beijing Olympics women’s eight boat were inducted into the U.S. Rowing Hall of Fame. That same year, Lind was ranked the No. 1 female rower in the world by World Rowing. She is married to Brandon Shald, an assistant coach for men’s crew at the University of Pennsylvania.