Caroline Queen (born March 5, 1992 in
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state' ...
) is an American
slalom canoer. At the
2012 Summer Olympics she competed in the
K-1 event, finishing 17th in the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals.
Caroline first began paddling slalom at the age of nine, at Valley Mill Camp in her hometown of
Darnestown, Maryland. She soon entered regular training in the summer of 2002, when she began working with Martin Nevaril, who would later become a US Junior National Team Coach. With Martin’s guidance, she blossomed as a young paddler. In 2006, then fourteen-year-old Queen attended her first US National team trials, when surprised the slalom community by winning Day 2 of the competition.
In 2007, with help from Joe Jacobi, she became the youngest woman ever to make the US National team. She has been on the National Team since then, competing every year except 2009 when she suffered an ACL injury. She recovered from the ACL surgery and went on to become the 2011 and 2012 US National Champion and make the US Olympic team in 2012.
She attended the
Bullis School
Bullis School is an independent, co-educational college preparatory day school for grades K-12. The school is located in Potomac, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
History
Bullis was founded in Washington D.C. in 1930 by Commander Willia ...
in
Potomac,
Maryland
Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
, and she graduated with a BS in Psychology from
Davidson College in
Davidson, North Carolina
Davidson is a suburban town located in northern Mecklenburg and Iredell counties, North Carolina, United States, on the banks of Lake Norman. It is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The population was 10,944 at the 2010 census, and ...
.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
American female canoeists
1992 births
Living people
Olympic canoeists of the United States
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Davidson College alumni
Sportspeople from Montgomery County, Maryland
21st-century American women
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