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Milton Academy Wins the 2002 BSDRA Team
Racing Championship
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Niantic, CT , 14 July 2002
The Interscholastic Sailing Accociation(ISSA) has been notified that the 2002 ISSA National High School Team Racing Champions, the Milton Academy team, has won the British Schools Dinghy Racing Association(BSDRA) Team Racing Championship for 2002 on 8-9 July. The Chief Umpire, Bruce Hebbert, commended the team on its tight team work and excellent communication skills. Also the Sevenoaks School coach for a team with a perennial record of excellence, Hebbert further remarked," If you have to be beaten in an international final, it could not have been by a better team than that from Milton Academy." Hebbert has been a principal in the development of team racing on the international level. The Milton team made final travel arrangements under some pressure, and with the assistance of a partial travel-grant from ISSA with funds obtained from the U.S. Sailing Foundation.
ISSA teams have travelled to the UK for some years, always doing well, oftimes topping the field, always with help from USSF, for which ISSA, the sailors and their teams are most grateful.
Larry White/ISSA
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