End of Year Honors for LYC Sailors

Happy New Year from LYC Sailing! 2017 was an incredible year for us, and ended with some nice recognition of some of our sailors:

*Stephan Baker Receives Sail 1 Design/McLaughlin Opti Sailor of the Year Award! You can read about the award here. 

*The LYC Fall Banquet was December 19th.
        - The Mike Toppa perpetual award for Teamwork when to the LYC1 Opti Team Cup Berlin Champs Team of Baker, Connor Bolland, Lulu Hamilton, Sara Schumann and Jack Redmond.

Above: The OTC Team just after the finals. 

      - The Clyde Wright Pram Trophy was awarded to Stephan Baker.
   
      -The Fall Series "Software" (the trophy were fleece blankets) was awarded as follows:
              Green: 1st: Millie French 2nd: Parker Bustamante 3rd Luca Ehring
              Bronze Fleet: 1st: Cole Fanchi, 2nd: Graceanna Dixon 3rd: Skye Johnson
              Silver Fleet: 1st Jake Homberger, 2nd: Cody Roe, 3rd: KJ Hill
              Gold Fleet: 1st Jack Redmond, 2nd Lucy Meagher, 3rd Ryan Kronrad

The Bronze Fleet receive their paper plate awards and pose with JC, Fleet Captain Morley and Coach Arthur. The kid in the middle 2nd row is Coach Pili! 

*Orange Bowl was an awesome 4 day event. Varied winds, currents, challenging courses and a stacked International fleet made for challenging racing! After 2 days of qualifying, 8 of the 17 LYC Sailors made the top 33% Gold fleet. With a stunning comeback on the last race of the regatta Baker took the trophy for the 2nd straight year! Jake Hamburger and Cody Roe also took home some hardware, finishing 2nd and 5th in White Fleet respectively. Schuman, Hamilton and Redmond all had chances to crack the top 10, but Lulu and Jack were black flagged in the last race! LYC's Ty Lamm and Will MacDiarmid were individual race winners in Silver and Bronze fleets respectively.

*End of year national standing:
LYC Sailors on National Team: Stephan Baker, Connor Bolland, Lulu Hamiton, Jack Redmond
LYC Sailors on National Development Team: Sara Schumann, Ryan Konrad, Jake Homberger

These and 6+ other TT qualified sailors now turn our focus to preparing for Team Trials where we hope to continue excellence on a national level! Thank you for being a part of LYC Opti Sailing!