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Kaitlin Cho is from Manhattan, New York where she sails with Hudson River Community Sailing in Chelsea and is apart of their Sea Dragons racing team. She is an incoming senior who has sailed and raced on j80s and plans to continue racing when she...

Paloma Manon is a 17 year old Dominican/American from Brooklyn.  She got into sailing through high school sailing and fleet racing j80s at Hudson River Community sailing and found out about Oakcliff at a Sailing Gala. She has came to Oakcliff to work hard to...

Joe is a sixteen-year-old sailor who primarily sails C-420s out of Shrewsbury Sailing & Yacht Club. Joe started sailing when he was four in a Sunfish and then progressed through various junior programs in the Optimist, moving on to sail the C-420 when he was...

Cullen Zelenka is an undergraduate at the University at Buffalo studying Mechanical and Electrical engineering, and is a graduate of the Sapling program. He was the first Winter Sapling and helped develop Oakcliff’s gap year program. After spending the summer of 2019 as the Boat...

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,...