Lindsay Dare Shoop
OLY, MSEd, CSCS
Lindsay@LindsayDareShoop.com | www.LindsayDareShoop.com
Lindsay Dare Shoop is an Olympic Champion rower, a three-time world champion, a five-time world cup medalist, and a US National Rowing Hall of Fame inductee. She holds her BA in Spanish from the University of Virginia and her MSEd in exercise physiology from the University of Miami.
Over the past decade she has been a program director for youth sport, has coached at every level from youth through elite, has worked alongside national and international non-profit agencies, and has been a sport commentator for NBC Olympics, ESPN, ACC Network, NCAA, and USRowing to name a few.
With a focus on performance and longevity, Lindsay leads camps, clinics, webinars, and workshops for coaches, athletes, and teams of all types. When she is not coaching, she is a speaker, having presented before major corporations, academic institutions, and national sport conferences.
Because of her clear passion for education and learning, Lindsay has also taken to writing, having published several articles on the topics of sport and health, as well as her first book, Better Great Than Never, which chronicles her life-changing journey from ultimate defeat to Olympic gold.
Through everything she does, Lindsay’s mission is to inspire others that it’s never too late to discover the possibility within.
Better Great Than Never Book Description
Think of any sport, and Lindsay Shoop played it growing up. She was a driven athlete, good student, and happy teenager. But when she went to college, everything changed. She quit basketball, gained weight, skipped classes…Her drive was gone. After a sleepless night and a fateful turn of events, Lindsay made the decision to become her best self. She discovered rowing, and the sport became her outlet for transformation.
In just one year she became an NCAA Division-I All-American. In four, she broke a world record and won her first World Championship. Within six years, Lindsay won Olympic gold.
In Better Great Than Never, Lindsay cinematically weaves her transformative story from overweight to Olympic gold. In doing so, she inspires you to seize your full potential by removing self-imposed limits. She demonstrates how to embrace every step, good and bad, to find greatness. For Lindsay, life isn’t about winning. As long as you learn throughout your journey, you can never lose.