LINDSAY SHOOP

Hometown: Charlottesville, Va.

Current Residence: Princeton, N.J.

Club Affiliation: USRowing Training Center

Began Rowing: University of Virginia, 2002

Date of Birth: 9/25/81 

Height: 6’0” 

Weight: 172

High School: The Covenant School

Undergraduate Education: University of Virginia, 2003

Graduate Education: University of Virginia, Curry School of Education

Current Coaches: Tom Terhaar, Laurel Korholz

International Results: Won gold in the eight at the 2008 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won gold in the eight at the 2007 FISA World Championships...Won gold in the eight at the 2007 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Finished seventh in the pair at the 2007 FISA World Cup stop in Linz...Won gold in the eight at the 2006 FISA World Championships...Won silver in the eight at the 2006 FISA World Cup stop in Lucerne...Won the Remenham Cup at the 2006 Henley Royal Regatta...Finished 11th in the pair at the 2006 FISA World Cup stop in Munich...Finished fourth in the eight and sixth in the pair at the 2005 FISA World Championships...Won bronze in the eight at the 2005 FISA World Cup stop in Munich.

National Results: Finished third in the pair at the second 2008 National Selection Regatta...Won the four and finished fourth in the pair at the 2007 USRowing National Championships...Finished second in the pair at the second 2006 National Selection Regatta...Won the pair at the 2005 National Team Trials...Won the pair at the second 2005 National Selection Regatta...Finished 16th in the single sculls at the first 2005 National Selection Regatta...Finished eighth in the varsity eight at the 2004 NCAA Championships...Finished fifth in the varsity eight at the 2003 NCAA Championships.

Personal: Lindsay is a four-time national team member and first-time Olympian...Lindsay enjoys reading, going to the beach, painting and all kinds of other sports...She lists her high school volleyball coach, Heidi Morse, as her personal hero...Lindsay said her most memorable sporting achievement was winning the volleyball state quarterfinals as a junior in high school...Her team was an underdog and won a three-hour match in what Lindsay calls, “the biggest team effort I have ever been a part of”...Having once dreamed of having her own radio show, Lindsay does not limit her musical preference to particular genres...She notes Bush, No Doubt, Timbaland, and The Notorious BIG among her favorites...She majored in Spanish and minored in art history at Virginia...Lindsay enjoys Spanish culture and music, and rates the sound of the flamenco guitar as one of the three best sounds in the world...The other two are the ocean and the steel drums...She lists her favorite artist as Salvador Dali and her favorite authors as Shakespeare, William Blake, Zora Neale Hurston and Isabel Allende...Lindsay eventually would like to move to the North Carolina coast and become part of an ocean rescue team.

(updated 6/27/2008)