Tara VanDerveer
VanDerveer, who owns a home at Chautauqua Institution and has vacationed every summer there since she was 8, was born in Melrose, MA on June 26, 1953.
While at Chautauqua, she participated in competitive sailing at the Chautauqua Yacht Club and was a waterfront counselor at the Chautauqua Boys and Girls Club and holds the club's record for the longest softball throw that was made in the 1960s. She also achieved the difficult advanced swimming degree in Group 8 at Chautauqua.
VanDerveer won three NCAA titles at Stanford. She captured the crowns in 1990, 1992 and 2021. Her teams made 13 appearances in the NCAA Final Four.
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