Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX

✍ Scribed by Gilder, Ginny

• Book ID: 108134994
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 298 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780807074770

✦ Synopsis

Wild meets The Boys in the Boat,a memoir about the quest for Olympic gold and the triumph of love over fear

Ginny Gilder grew up in an era where girls mostly sat on the sidelines--as observers and cheerleaders, not competitors and champions. Raised in a family where business acumen was treasured as the ultimate trophy, she toed the line of her father's expectations. To Gilder, that meant the pursuit of academic excellence. However, once at Yale, her operating assumptions changed nearly overnight when as a freshman in 1975 she discovered rowing. From her first strokes as a novice, Gilder found herself in a new world. At Yale, she trained with Olympic rowers and participated in the famous Title IX naked protest, which helped define the Title IX movement.

Course Correction recounts the physical and psychological barriers Gilder overcame as she transformed into an elite athlete who reached the highest echelon of her sport. Taking...