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A 2008 World Champion and a 2004 Olympian, Isabelle Kinsolving Farrar grew up in New York City, sailing out of Fishers Island Yacht Club right across the sound from Erin Maxwell. Isabelle succeeded in junior sailing on a club and local level in Optimists, Blue Jays and Club 420’s. 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, captained the Varsity Team in 2000, and lead 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. 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 only made Isabelle’s desire for Olympic Gold grew in intensity.

Isabelle and Erin joined forces in July 2006, after having competed against each other for all of their sailing careers. Together they have achieved tremendously, winning the 2008 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. With Erin, Isabelle is determined to get to the top of the Olympic podium in London in 2012.

A Political Science and Economics double-major at Yale University, Isabelle will be graduating from New York University School of Law in May 2011. Isabelle is a member of the Fishers Island, New York, and Stonington Harbor Yacht Clubs.

Isabelle’s Top Sailing Accomplishments:

US Sailing Team Member, 2001-2011

• 3rd, 2011 470 North Americans (North American Champion)
• 3rd, 2010 Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta, Weymouth, UK
• 11th, 2010 470 World Championships, The Hague, Netherlands
• 7th, 2010 US Sailing’s Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, Women’s 470
• 10th, 2009 470 World Championships, Denmark
• 3rd, 2009 Delta Lloyd Regatta, Women’s 470
• 2nd, 2009 US Sailing’s Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, Women’s 470
• 2008, Shortlisted for the US Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Award
• 1st, 2008 470 World Championships
• 1st, 2008 Sail Melbourne Asia Pacific Regatta
• 2nd, 2007 US Women’s 470 Olympic Trials
• 10th, 2007 470 World Championships
• 3rd, 2007 Princess Sofia Regatta, Women’s 470
• 17th, 2005 470 World Championships
• 2004, Shortlisted for the US Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Award
• 5th, 2004 Summer Olympics, Women’s 470
• 8th, 2004 470 World Championships
• 7th, 2004 Kiel Week, Women’s 470
• 3rd, 2004 470 European Championships
• 1st, 2003 US Women’s 470 Olympic Trials
• 1st, 2003 US Sailing’s Rolex Miami OCR, 470 Women
• 5th, 2003 Pre-Olympics, Women’s 470
• 1st, 2002 US Women’s 470 Pre-Trials
• 1st, 2002 ICSA Women’s New England College Championships (2nd A Div.)
• 2000 Captain Yale Sailing Team