470 Team USA: Team

	Erin Maxwell Skipper Email Erin		Isabelle Kinsolving Crew Email Isabelle
Erin Maxwell grew up sailing out of Ram Island Yacht Club and Wadawanuck Yacht Club in Connecticut. In high school she competed on the Williams School sailing team where she led her team to placing well at several national championships. Erin went on to Dartmouth College where she finished her college sailing career as a four-time Women's All-American skipper. She was also named a Co-ed All-American skipper in 2001, an honor rarely awarded to women in the history of US college sailing. After college sailing she transitioned into sailing 470s. At the 2001 470 World Championships in Slovenia, she placed a remarkable 14th in her first world championship. This was followed by winning the 470 Nationals in 2002. In the winter of 2003 Erin began sailing full time in 470's training towards the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. She placed 3rd at the Olympic Trials and did not qualify for the Olympics, but Erin immediately refocused on her Olympic goals for Beijing in 2008. Jumping right back into competition, Erin dominated the 2004 US 470 Nationals with all first place finishes. This was followed by finishing as the top US Women's Team at the US Nationals in 2005, making it the 4th time Erin finished as the top US women's team at the 470 US Nationals. In July 2006, Erin joined forces with Isabelle Kinsolving, 2004 470 Olympian. She is now more determined that ever to achieve gold at the 2008 Games knowing she has the talent of Isabelle on her side. Erin holds a BS in Economics and a BA in Studio Art from Dartmouth College. After graduating from Dartmouth in 2001 she worked at Lehman Brothers, Inc. in their Prime Brokerage Group until the Fall of 2002. In her free time outside of work and sailing she competed in the New York Marathon in 2002, and enjoys continuing with her art by painting and drawing. She has currently been working as an investment banker in the Asset-backed Finance division of RBS Greenwich Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut since the Winter of 2004, while maintaining her 470 training.		A 2004 Olympian, Isabelle Kinsolving grew up in New York City, sailing out of Fishers Island Yacht Club right across the sound from Erin Maxwell. Through junior sailing in Optimists, Blue Jays and Club 420's, Isabelle succeeded on a club and local level. Isabelle graduated high school from Groton School in Massachusetts, where she was co-captain of the Girls' Ice Hockey Team and a member of the New England Champion rowing team. As an undergraduate at Yale University, Isabelle played Women's Varsity Ice Hockey for two years before concentrating on sailing. She skippered for both the Women's and Varsity Sailing Teams, leading the Women's Team to a New England Championship in 2002, her senior year. While in college, Isabelle started sailing 470's in 2001, crewing for Katie McDowell. Together they climbed the US Sailing Team Rankings from 3rd in 2001 to 1st in 2003. Isabelle won the 2004 470 US Olympic Trials, earning the right to represent the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In 2004, Isabelle finished 3rd in the 2004 European Championships and 8th at the World Championships, before placing 5th at the Olympics. Competing in the 2004 Olympics proved only the beginning of the culmination of a life-long dream, and Isabelle's desire for Olympic Gold grew in intensity. A six-time member of the US Sailing Team, Isabelle joined Erin and 470 Team USA in Summer 2006. A Political Science and Economics double-major at Yale University, Isabelle has been working as a paralegal at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office since May 2005 and plans to attend law school. A member of New York Yacht Club and Fishers Island Yacht Club, Isabelle has also been coaching at elite-level junior sailing clinics.

Erin's Top Sailing Accomplishments:		Isabelle's Top Sailing Accomplishments:
US Sailing Team Member, 2000-2001, 2003-2006		US Sailing Team Member, 2001-2006
1st, 2005 St. Francis Olympic Classes Regatta (Coed 470)		5th, 2004 Summer Olympics, Women's 470
2nd, 2005 US 470 Women's Nationals (Top American)		17th, 2005 470 World Championships
2nd, 2005 Rolex Miami OCR, Women's 470		8th, 2004 470 World Championships
1st, 2004 US 470 Nationals (Coed)		7th, 2004 Kiel Week, Women's 470
3rd, 2003 US Women's 470 Olympic Trials		3rd, 2004 470 European Championships
1st, 2003 US Women's 470 Nationals		1st, 2003 US Women's 470 Olympic Trials
1st, 2003 Travemunde Race Week (Coed 470)		1st, 2003 US Sailing's Rolex Miami OCR, 470 Women
1st, 2002 US 470 Nationals (Coed)		5th, 2003 Pre-Olympics, Women's 470
14th, 2001 Women's 470 World Championship		1st, 2002 US Women's 470 Pre-Trials
1st, 2000 Intercollegiate Women's Championships		1st, 2002 ICSA Women's New England College Championships (2nd A Div.)
5th, 1999 US Women's 470 Olympic Trials		2000 Captain Yale Sailing Team
2nd, 1998, 1999, and 2001 Intercollegiate Women's Championship
Intercollegiate All-American, 2001		Click here to email Isabelle
Intercollegiate Women's All-American 1998-2001
1st, 1998 and 1999 Club 420 North American Championships
1st, 1996 and 1997 Ida Lewis Trophy (US Jr. Women's Doublehanded Championship, Club 420's)

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