Carol Newman Cronin (born June 23, 1964) is an American Olympic sailor and author who competed in the Yngling class at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She won the 2018 Women's Snipe World Championship and was third at the 2004 Women's Yngling World Championship. She also won the 2002 US Sailing's Miami Olympic Classes Regatta in the Yngling class. As tactician, she won the 1999 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship sailing with Pat Connerney. Her novels include: Oliver's Surprise: A Boy, a Schooner, and the

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(GemmaMedia, 2008); Cape Cod Surprise: Oliver Matches wits with

Hurricane Carol Hurricane Carol was among the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island in the United States. It developed from a tropical wave near the Bahamas on August 25, 1954, and slowly strengthened as i ...

(GemmaMedia, 2010); Game of Sails, an

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Love Story (LiveWire, 2012); and Ferry to Cooperation Island (She Writes Press, 2020). She is also the author of 100 Years of Gold Stars, a history of the

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Early life

Cronin grew up sailing with her family and racing out of the Woods Hole Yacht Club and was on the first

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Sailing Team to attend the

Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association National Championships The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) holds National Championships in seven different categories: * Coed Dinghy * Women’s Dinghy * Team Racing * Women's Team Racing * Men’s Singlehanded * Women’s Singlehanded *Match Racing (previ ...

. After graduation, she crewed for Ed Adams, George Szabo, and many other prominent sailors.

Olympic career

In 2000, Cronin put together a team to compete for the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

. Four years later, her team beat out five other boats at the USA Olympic Trials and won a bronze medal at the 2004 Women's Yngling World Championship. They won two races in Athens and finished tenth overall.

References

External links

Official website
1964 births Living people American female sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for the United States Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Yngling Yngling class sailors Snipe class female world champions Connecticut College Camels sailors 21st-century American sportswomen 20th-century American sportswomen {{US-yachtracing-bio-stub