Middlebury College Sailing Competition Renamed for Alumnus and Champion Sailor Dr. Stuart Walker
For immediate release: July 31, 2013 MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Middlebury College and the Middlebury College Sailing Club announced today that the Middlebury Cup, an annual intercollegiate sailing competition conducted at Middlebury each fall, will be renamed the Stuart Walker Open after Dr. Stuart Walker, a member of the Middlebury Class of 1943, who has made numerous contributions to the sport. The author of ten books on sailboat racing, the psychology of competition and low level wind-flow, Walker was a member of the 1968 Olympic Team and of the 1979 Pan-American Team. He holds countless winning titles worldwide, including England's Prince of Wales Cup (the first American to do so), and was recently inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame. At the age of 90, Walker is still competing and still winning championship regattas around the world. In 1940 Walker, while a student at Middlebury College, founded its Sailing Club, first known as the Dinghy Club and, subsequently, the Middlebury Yacht Club. The first Stuart Walker Open will be held at Middlebury Sept. 21-22, 2013. Teams will compete annually for the Stuart H. Walker ’43 Trophy. Each year, the name of the winning team will be engraved on the trophy, which will be on display at the college. For more information, contact Middlebury College Sailing Club Head Coach Ben Dominguez at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Fair Winds! -- Benjamin A. Dominguez Middlebury College Head Sailing Club Coach Cell # 630-724-7011 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ________________________________________________ neisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.collegesailing.org/mailman/?listname=neisa Unsubscribe: Send a blank email to [email protected]
