Racing News Racing News, Results, Lies, Etc. The volunteers are hard at work to ensure that this USA Junior Olympic Sailing event will be the best ever. I want to personally invite you to bring your students and junior sailors to the Wayzata Yacht Club to participate in this two-day event. Whether they are learning to sail an Optimist pram, transitioning to a Laser Radial, or are hard-core Laser or seasoned 420 competitors, this is an opportunity to have fun, meet fellow young sailors, receive intensive coaching, learn and compete. Betsy will be assisted by Cappy Capper, nationally recognized sailing coach and director of the Lake Minnetonka Sailing School.
Housing is available on request.
Between races there will be plenty of fun activities targeted at all age groups. She is widely recognized for the numerous prestigious and competitive races she has won, holding title to 22 national, international and world championships. Her current goal is to defend the World Women s Match Racing Title in 1999, and break into the Open Match Racing Circuit competing against the men for the 2000 season. Long term goals include winning a Gold Medal in the Women s Keelboat Division, a new sailing event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, the home of the first Olympic Games. She is the Gold Medalist in the 1998 Women s World Match racing Championships, and Silver Medalist in the Women s Keelboat Fleet racing event.