With 18 months 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 competing in the events selected for Rio 2016. Olympic class athletes qualified for the team at the ISAF Sailing World Championships in Santander, Spain, and at ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, Presented by Sunbrella, in January 2015. Paralympic class athletes qualified in Miami as well. Through the US Sailing Team Sperry and its sponsors, athletes on the Olympic and Paralympic path receive financial, logistical, coaching, technical, fitness, marketing and communications support.
“As we enter the third year in the Rio 2016 Olympic quad, the focus of our team on performing in Rio continues to intensify, ” said Josh Adams, Managing Director of US Olympic Sailing. “The athletes named to the US Sailing Team Sperry have worked hard to earn a place in the program, and we will do everything we can to support their podium ambitions. We are fortunate to operate this team at a high level thanks to the unyielding support of Sperry, our title sponsor, Gold Sponsor Sunbrella, Silver partners Harken, McLube and Groupe Beneteau, team supplier Yale Cordage, sponsors Chubb Insurance and the Gowrie Group, and finally our immensely supportive Olympic Medalist donors.”
Fifteen athletes have also been named to the 2015 US Sailing Development Team (USSDT), the pathway team supported by the U.S. Olympic Sailing Program and US Sailing’s Olympic Sailing Committee (OSC). The USSDT was created in 2007 to help athletes who have been identified as Olympic prospects launch successful campaigns and compete at the Olympic level.
“Supporting sailors on the Olympic pathway is a major focus of our program,” said Adams. “Our talent pipeline continues to improve as sailors graduate out of high-performance youth classes, and we are excited to see improving depth in our Olympic classes.”
2015 US Sailing Team Sperry Roster
2.4mR (Paralympic One-Person Keelboat)
- John Ruf (Pewaukee, Wisc.)
- Charles Rosenfield (Woodstock, Ct.)
Men’s 470
- Stuart McNay (Providence, R.I.) and David Hughes (Miami, Fla.)
- Jordan Factor (Burlington, V.T.) and Matthew Wefer (Glen Head, N.Y.)
- USSDT: Russell Clarida (Southport, C.T.) and Ian Robinson (Miami, Fla.)
Women’s 470
- Annie Haeger (East Troy, Wisc.) and Briana Provancha (San Diego, Calif.)
- Sydney Bolger (Long Beach, Calif.) and Carly Shevitz (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
- USSDT: Alexia Fischer (Seattle, Wash.) and Georgia Lomax (Seattle, Wash.)
49er
- Brad Funk (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Trevor Burd (Marblehead, Mass.)
- David Liebenberg (Livermore, Calif.) and Daniel Morris (San Francisco, Calif.)
- USSDT: Fred Strammer (Nokomis, Fla.) and Michael Kuschner (Gloucester Pt., Va.)
49erFX
- Paris Henken (Coronado, Calif.) and Helena Scutt (Kirkland, Wash.)
- Debbie Capozzi (Blue Point, N.Y.) and Molly Vandemoer (Stanford, Calif.)
- USSDT: Emily Dellenbaugh (Easton, Conn.) and Elizabeth Barry (Riverside, Conn.)
Finn
- Caleb Paine (San Diego, Calif.)
- Philip Toth (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- USSDT: Luke Muller (Ft. Pierce, Fla.)
Laser
- Charlie Buckingham (Newport Beach, Calif.)
- Chris Barnard (Newport Beach, Calif.)
- USSDT: Erik Bowers (Excelsior, Minn.)
Laser Radial
- Erika Reineke (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.)
- Paige Railey (Clearwater, Fla.)
- USSDT: Haddon Hughes (Houston, Texas)
Nacra 17
- Michael Easton (Bedford, Mass.) and Katie Pettibone (Port Huron, Mich.)
- Sarah Newberry (Miami, Fla.) and Matthew Whitehead (Panama City, Fla.)
- USSDT: Jeremy Wilmot (Newport, R.I.) and Louisa Chafee (Warwick, R.I.)
Men’s RS:X
- Carson Crain (Houston, Texas)
- Raul Lopez (Miami, Fla.)
- USSDT: Ben Barger (Tampa, Fla.)
Women’s RS:X
- Farrah Hall (Annapolis, Md.)
- Marion Lepert (Belmont, Calif.)
- USSDT: Solvig Sayre (Vineyard Haven, Mass.)
SKUD-18 (Paralympic Two-Person Keelboat)
- Sarah Everhart-Skeels (Tiverton, R.I.) and Cindy Walker (Plymouth, Mass.)
- Ryan Porteous (Pacific Beach, Calif.) and Maureen McKinnon (Marblehead, Mass.)
Sonar (Paralympic Three-Person Keelboat)
- Rick Doerr (Clifton, N.J.), Brad Kendell (Tampa, Fla.) and Hugh Freund (South Freeport, Maine)
- Andrew Fisher (Greenwich, Conn.), Daniel Evans (Miami, Fla.) and Tom Brown (Castine, Maine)
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