Virginia Gilder
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| Birth name | Virginia Anne Gilder | ||||||||||||
| Born | June 4, 1958 New York, New York |
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| Alma mater | Yale University (1979) | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | entrepreneur, investor | ||||||||||||
| Other interests | co-owner of Seattle Storm | ||||||||||||
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Virginia Anne "Ginny" Gilder (born June 4, 1958) is an American former competitive rower and Olympic silver medalist. She was a member of the American women's quadruple sculls team that won the silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.[1]
She is the daughter of Richard Gilder and was raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.[2][3] For high school she attended a boarding school, graduating one year early.[2] Gilder went on to study history at Yale University,[2] graduating in 1979.[3] She was first selected for the U.S. Olympic team in 1980, the year that the United States boycotted the Olympic Games.[2]
Gilder works as an investor and she is a co-owner of the Seattle Storm, a professional women's basketball team in the WNBA.[2][4]
She is the author of Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX[5] which was released April 14, 2015 by Beacon Press. The paperback and audiobook will be released April 12, 2016.
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