Caroline Young joined the Triton sailing staff in the fall of 2021. Young comes to Eckerd after coaching champion dinghy sailors at programs throughout the U.S.
Prior to her coaching career, she built a 10+ year career as a product development executive, launching and growing tech startups and investing time in coaching high-performing teams, entrepreneurs, and athletes.
In addition to her coaching background, Young has a highly decorated sailing career, both at the collegiate and national level.
All-SAISA Second-Team - Eden Nykamp (2022)
In her first season with the Tritons, she helped lead freshman, Eden Nykamp, to the All-SAISA Second Team honors for Women's Skippers.
Young sailed at Stanford from 2003-06, where she garnered ICSA All-American honors on the women’s team in 2005. She also won the B Division at the 2005 Intercollegiate Women's Sailing National Championship. Young dominated the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference (PCCSC) throughout her tenure on the Stanford women's team. She won three consecutive PCCSC Women's Collegiate Conference Championships and led Stanford to back-to-back top-five Intercollegiate National Championship finishes. She was a two-time women's team MVP at Stanford and four-time All-PCCSC Team member.
Young currently holds three North American Championship Titles, two of which came this summer, as she won the RS Aero 5 Class North American Champion & RS Aero Womens North American Champion in May at the Davis Island Yacht Club. In September 2021, she won the Sunfish Women’s North American Championship with all first place finishes, which was held in Columbia, SC.
Most recently, she competed at the RS Aero World Championships in Columbia River Gorge, Oregon in June-July, where she finished as the top female. She also finished as the top American at Sunfish Open Nationals in Clearwater in March. She now heads to the 2022 Sunfish World Championships in Riva Del Garda, Italy in September.
She is also a former US Sailing team member as a skipper in the Women’s 470 class and International 420 class. She represented the U.S. at the 2003 ISAF Youth World Championships in I420s, placing eighth overall. As a 470 skipper and competed in the 2006 Pre-Olympics in Beijing.
Young holds a B.S. in Engineering from Stanford University.
