Katherine E. McDowell is an American sailor who sailed with Isabelle Kinsolving to take fifth place in the women's 470 class competition at the

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Sailing history

McDowell started sailing at age nine in sunfish and went on to sail in high school at the

Moses Brown School Moses Brown School is an independent Quaker school located in Providence, Rhode Island, offering pre-kindergarten through secondary school classes. It was founded in 1784 by Moses Brown, a Quaker abolitionist, and is one of the oldest prepara ...

where she graduated in 1993. McDowell started sailing in college at

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and then transferred to

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where she led the team that won the Women’s College Nationals Championship in 1998. McDowell was named to the Women All-American sailing team in 1994, 1995, and 1996 while sailing at Tufts University and then in 1997 and 1998 while sailing at Brown University; in 1997 she was also named to a Co-ed All American sailor. She won the

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in 1996. In the 2004 Olympics held in Athens, McDowell sailed with Isabelle Kinsolving in the 470 class where they finished in fifth place.

Awards

In 2006, McDowell was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the Moses Brown School. When 2014, McDowell was inducted in the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014, she became the first women's sailor to receive this honor.

References

1975 births Living people Olympic sailors for the United States Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – 470 American female sailors (sport) Tufts Jumbos sailors Brown Bears sailors 21st-century American women {{US-yachtracing-bio-stub