Get Your Youth Sailors Involved at Junior Olympic Festival in Your Area
Attention Sailing Centers and Yacht Clubs: Please Share the 2015 USA Junior Olympic Schedule We are as excited as ever about the 26 Junior Olympic Festivals scheduled for 2015! Every year 4,000 kids compete in Junior Olympic Festivals hosted by yacht clubs and sailing centers around the country. These Festivals improve racing skills, connect young…Read More
Sailing Leadership Forum 2016 – Save the Date!
Sailing Leadership Forum 2016 - Connect. Discover. Grow. The Sailing Leadership Forum is back! Join us for Sailing Leadership Forum 2016, a US Sailing signature event, at the Hilton San Diego Resort, February 4-6, 2016. Leaders from sail training and education, yacht club and sailing organization management, race officials, and industry professionals will discover and…Read More
Rosters Announced: 2015 US Sailing Team Sperry and Development Team
Portsmouth, R.I. – With 500 days remaining until the start of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, US Sailing, the national governing body for the sport, has named 42 Olympic and Paralympic class athletes to the 2015 US Sailing Team Sperry. The US national sailing team is selected annually and is comprised of the top sailors…Read More
Southern California Fundraiser for the US Sailing Team Sperry: May 16th
Come join the US Sailing Team Sperry athletes at the Southern California Fundraiser to support our national Olympic and Paralympic sailors, with all proceeds going to support their efforts at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2016 Saturday May 16, 2015 Host: California Yacht Club 4469 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey…Read More
US Sailing’s Revamped Olympic Development Program Gets Underway
Helena Scutt, US Sailing Team Sperry. Photo: Will Ricketson/US Sailing Portsmouth, R.I.- Following an unprecedented $5 million donation by the AmericaOne Foundation, US Sailing has begun implementing a new-look Olympic Development Program (ODP), guided by its Project Pipeline strategic initiative. Starting in March 2015, promising American youth sailors will begin to receive world-class coaching support…Read More
U.S. Youth Championships: Application Period Closes Sunday, March 15
Portsmouth, R.I. (March 12, 2015) – Application for early acceptance to the U.S. Youth Sailing Championships closes Sunday, March 15 (midnight). This year's championship will be hosted by Roger Williams University on July 7-10 in Bristol, R.I. Bristol Yacht Club will be providing additional support at this ISAF Youth Worlds Qualifier. Sailors may be accepted…Read More
Reeser and Fedyszyn Honored as US National Coaches of the Year
(2014 US Sailing National Coach of the Year Morgan Reeser coaching US Sailing Team Sperry 470 sailors Stu McNay and David Hughes at ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères, France.) March 4, 2015Portsmouth, R.I.- US Sailing's Olympic Sailing Committee (OSC) today announced Morgan Reeser (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) as the 2014 US Sailing National Coach of the Year, and Todd…Read More
Maintain the Urgency: Reinstating Paralympic Sailing in Tokyo 2020
(US Sailing Team Sperry paralympic athletes compete at the Disabled Sailing World Championships. Photo: Will Ricketson/US Sailing) It’s been a month since the International Paralympic Committee publicized its decision to drop sailing from the slate of sports at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Since then ISAF has stepped up to lead the appeal for…Read More
Hutchinson, Roble Honored in New York as Best of 2014
After having moved to the west coast for the past three years, US Sailing’s Rolex Yachtsman & Yachtswoman of the Year Awards ceremony returned to the iconic Model Room at the New York Yacht Club in Manhattan to celebrate the sailing accomplishments of Terry Hutchinson (Annapolis, Md.) and Stephanie Roble (East Troy, Wisc.).
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