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Jack Bradley grew up sailing in Redondo Beach, California and is currently racing on the west coast high school and 29er circuits. Last season, his highschool team was top 25 in their region with Jack leading the A fleet. His main goal at Oakcliff is...

Wes Bright is originally from Freeport, ME and grew up racing Herreshoff 12 1/2s with his father out of the Buzzards Yacht Club on Cape Cod. He went on to add Opti and 420 racing and 3 H-Class junior national championships before transitioning to racing...

Jack McKenzie is a seventeen year old sailor from Charleston South Carolina. He has been sailing for 10 years and has sailed the opti, 420, and recently tried the laser and lighting. He competed in a laser qualifier event in Miami and won a collage...

Taima Crean is from both San Francisco and Washington, DC but is currently studying biomedical engineering and business at the University of Texas at Austin, Hook ‘Em! She is going into her third year on the UT sailing team where she has acted as PR...

Sam Rifkind-Brown is a rising senior at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. He joined a high school team in 8th grade, sailing FJs on the eastern shore. He spent last summer at Oakcliff sailing a variety of boats including high performance and foiling boats,...

Erica first opened her eyes to the lure of powerful oceans at age 8 when she read about a woman who competed in the OSTAR (a solo transatlantic race) in 1976. Erica came from a strong dinghy sailing background, competing nationally in the club 420. She...

Fran is an officer of the Germany Navy from Hamburg. She is currently working on her master’s degree in educational sciences at the Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, university of the armed forces in Germany. Her prior sailing experiences include basic sailing within the officers’ training, and participating in...

My name is Sam Rifkind-Brown. I am 16 years old and a rising junior at Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC. I grew up sailing over the summer and started racing for my high school a couple of years ago. I’m now looking to expand...

Kirby grew up in North Carolina on his family's farm. He is a rising sophomore at The University of Virginia. Although he did not grow up sailing regularly, he acquired a love of the sport during vacations to the Bahamas. While he is not as...