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Celebrate Sailing
For
immediate release: June 3, 2009
Big 4th of July JUNIOR OLYMPIC SAILING
FESTIVAL planned at Pensacola Yacht Club
On Friday, July 3rd the Independence holiday
action kicks off with final registration for Pensacola Yacht
Club’s USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival presented by
SUBWAY® Restaurants. Exciting youth racing clinics will be
offered all day long.
Clinics will be presented Friday
morning and afternoon by two exceptional youth coaches.
Karl Kleinschrodt, well known sailing coach from Mobile,
will instruct the Club 420 and Flying Scot groups. Nicole
Buechler, at one time the 6th ranked female Laser sailor
in the USA, is the daughter of PYC members Chris and Suzanne
Buechler. Nicole is
currently
the Opti coach at Clearwater Community Sailing Center in
Tampa, Florida,
and will come home to instruct the
Laser and Optimist Dinghy sailors.
Ben Barger,
USA Olympic RS:X board sailor and five time US National
Champion, will be on hand to give the young sailors personal
insights on international and Olympic competition. Barger is
currently the 24th ranked RS:X board sailor in
the world and the top ranked American.
Then on Friday night, PYC goes into
high gear. Ben Barger will be the guest speaker at
the SUBWAY® Celebrate Sailing festival Kick-off
dinner. Each of the youth sailors participating in the
festival will have a free ticket to the dinner and show.
This exciting presentation is open to all PYC members,
guests and also to the general public. It’s a big
holiday event for anyone interested in sailing and the
Olympics.
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Reservations for the Celebrate
Sailing program are being taken through July 1st.
Dinner tickets for festival participants are free. Tickets
for children 12 and under are $10 and adults are $20.
Space is limited.
Call PYC for reservations now:
433-8804.
Racing takes the spotlight on
Saturday and Sunday with competition in nine racing classes:
Opti Green, Red, White, and Blue fleets; Laser Full, Radial
& 4.7 fleets; Flying Scots, Club 420’s. The committee
predicts that there will be anywhere from 75 to 100 young
sailors participating in the festival. Prizes will be
awarded Sunday afternoon.
The SUBWAY® Junior Sailing Clinic,
Ben Barger and Celebrate Sailing dinner program and the 8th
annual USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival on the Gulf Coast
are presented for the first time this year by local SUBWAY®
franchisees. Pensacola Yacht Club in Pensacola, Florida
hosts the annual festival and regatta on July 3-5th.
All sailors 8-21 years old are
invited to bring their Optis, Lasers, Club 420’s and Flying
Scots to join the fun at this traditional 4TH of
July holiday regatta. Come out and help PYC Celebrate
Sailing.
To register or to learn more about
the event, go to the PYC web site, http://www.pensacolayachtclub.org/,
click GUEST then click on HERE below the Junior Olympic
Sailing Festival event logo.
For PYC Junior Olympic Sailing
Festival information,
contact Angela Addison:
angela.pycjo2009@yahoo.comail
For press or sponsor information,
contact Virginia Wilson, Talbot
Wilson & Associates:
virginia@talbotwilson.com
Office: +1 850-432-8170 or Cel: +1 850-217-7138
About the 2009 USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festivals
In its 13th season, the Junior
Olympic Sailing program is a nationwide series of regattas
for youth, ages 8 to 21. There are 25 regattas slated for
2009 in the continental United States and Hawaii and over
4,300 sailors are expected to participate. The action begins
with two events in June, and the series culminates with the
33rd annual Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta in
Miami, the largest junior sailing event in the country.
This youth development program,
nationally sponsored by West Marine, Gill
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North America, Active.com and Bull
Frog, is a nationwide series of regattas hosted by yacht
clubs and sailing organizations. They are designed to
promote the enjoyment of sailing, develop the skills of
young sailors, and to provide a pathway for hopeful Olympic
competitors.
During the course of the 2009 JO
season, young sailors will race Optimists, Lasers, Bytes,
Sunfish, El Toros, Club 420s, CFJs, 29ers, windsurfers and
more in 25 events held in 16
states. Since the inception of the program in 1997, more
than 38,000 sailors have participated in 233 events offering
various levels of competition, skill building and fun
activities designed to encourage a life-long involvement in
the sport of sailing.
Additionally, US SAILING’s JO
program has inspired hundreds of young sailors to reach for
their Olympic dreams. The medal ceremony at the end of each
JO event is similar to that of the Olympic Games format, as
class winners step up to the podium to collect gold, silver,
and bronze Junior Olympic medals. Special fun prizes and
sportsmanship awards are presented at many JO events.
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