Ginny Gilder, who earned a silver medal rowing for the United States in the 1984 Olympics and is the author of the recent book, “Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX,” will speak at noon Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Vashon Library. Gilder is also the co-owner of the Seattle Storm basketball team.

While on Vashon, Gilder will discuss how people can reach their goals  despite physical and psychological barriers.

“Course Correction,” marketed as “Wild” meets “The Boys in the Boat,” is Gilder’s  memoir about her quest for Olympic gold and the triumph of love over fear.

According to her website, Gilder was raised in difficult family circumstances on the East Coast and attended Yale University in pursuit of academic excellence.

Once there, however, she discovered rowing and went on to train with two Olympians and participated in the now famous Title IX protest when she and her teammates took off their clothes in the school administrator’s office, objecting to the lack of training facilities, including showers, for the women’s team.

Gilder chronicles her journey to becoming an elite athlete, through the Olympic competition, on to family tragedy and to making major life choices that followed.

Both Billy Jean King and Daniel James Brown, the author of the bestselling “The Boys in the Boat,” have praised her book, with Brown saying it is about “hope and hopelessness,  fear and courage, loss and redemption.”

Copies of the book will be for sale at the library.