Name: Annie Haeger

Position: Helm

Sport: Sailing

Event(s): 470 (two-person dinghy)

Height: 5-6

Weight: 128

DOB: 2/5/1990

Birthplace: Chicago, Ill.

Hometown: East Troy, Wis.

High School: Lake Forest High School (Lake Forest, Ill.) ’08

College: Boston College ’12, Marketing

Team/Club: Lake Beulah Yacht Club

Olympic Experience

• Olympian (2016)
• Rio 2016 Olympic Games, 7th

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2016 – 6th (470)
• Years of participation: Laser Radial – 2007, 2009; 470 – 2010, 2013-16
• Top finish: 6th – 2016 (470)

Personal: Daughter of Kent and Julie Haeger, both sailors, who spent a year with Annie and her siblings living on a boat and sailing throughout Europe, Africa, Australia and New Zealand...Began sailing at age 5...Offered a scholarship to play soccer in college but turned it down to sail at Boston College...Won the Quantam Female College Sailor of the Year Award in 2011...Four-time ICSA All-American.

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