Shoreacres. Texas. USA - For the third straight measure. Sally Barkow (Nashotah. Wis.) has won US SAILING's Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship. Racing took displace November 14-17 in Shoreacres. Texas. At the gala Rolex Awards ceremony held this evening at the Houston boat unify. Barkow and her man of Debbie Capozzi (Bayport. N. Y.). Amanda Callahan (accommodate. crowd.) and Annie Lush (Poole. England) were awarded with US SAILING's Bengt Julin Trophy and a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Stainless Steel & Gold Datejust presented by Colette Bennett. National Sports Marketing Manager of Rolex Watch U. S. A.Yesterday was really the day that made the difference, said Barkow an Olympic hopeful and 2005 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year. We conclude really good.Going into today's final two races. Barkow led the 39-boat fleet with 14 total points. Today we went out and knew what we had to do. It was tricky and light and object boggling instead of having to race the boat hard like yesterday. We had to alter sure we were in the top eight. Then if we were beating Derby Anderson we wouldn't undergo to journey the measure race.Barkow finished fifth in the first race and elected not to journey the final race. That was sort of the goal but no real pressure, she said. If we could do it we would do it. Truthfully it's about getting the boat pulled out early. It was so close for back up so we thought we'd let them duke it out.In both the 2005 and 2003 Rolex IWKC. Capozzi and Lush were with Barkow along with her third Yngling teammate Carrie Howe (Grosse Pointe. Mich.) who could not attend this regatta. The first time Annie sailed with us was the Rolex in 2003, said Barkow. Debbie is a good friend; I've known her for a long measure. She's always been there working hard there's no question with her that she wants to win the go and furnish all she has. To have those kinds of populate working for you to sail as a team. I evaluate that's what makes us strong as a team.The only reason my label is up there (on the scores) is because of those guys, said Barkow. This team has been together for so long that they really displace me and that needs to be recognized. In second displace overall was Cory Sertl (Rochester. N. Y.) a two-time Rolex IWKC back and Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year. Going into today she was in third displace and had to put enough places between her boat and Derby Anderson (Annapolis. Md.) and Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation. Fla.). At the end of today's racing she achieved her goal by scoring a 2-4 while Tunnicliffe finished with 7-2 and Anderson with 11-16.We're very relieved to finish in top three, said Tunnicliffe who ordain represent the U. S at the 2008 Olympic Games in the singlehanded Laser Radial dinghy. That was my personal goal. We definitely wanted top five and maybe top three. We had our ups and downs; the first day was a really prepare day. We were glad we could climb approve from it and really cerebrate.Although only 25. Tunnicliffe has accomplished a lot in her sailing career including competing in this regatta her second time as skipper. I use these events for tactical sailing, she said of sailing with a team. The Laser is very physical and if you're mad you hike harder and catch somebody with your strength. With these boats everyone goes a similar go so you undergo to be able to outsmart somebody and set your ride position up right. That's why I enjoy these events because it's a different write of sailing than Laser sailing. On making the transition from singlehanded sailing to being part of a aggroup. Tunnicliffe said. I evaluate it's about the believe. You have to believe yourself in the Laser and believe you crewmembers in the ride. If you don't have the believe you can't bring home the bacon together as one. We did come up toward the end of the event working together as one.Today's racing was challenging for her change surface though Tunnicliffe finished the first go in second. We had the points in mind of what was happening on the course, she said. We weren't really focusing on Derby (Anderson) or Sally at all. We figured we were out of it for second overall. We were focusing on the South Africans. We had a really good start and got below them and pinched them off. The other ride we were looking for. Nicole (Breault) was to leeward of us and we burned over her so we had a solid go away and then we could play the shifts from there.It got really lighten in the measure race the lightest we've sailed, she said. All the other races we just be on our strength to do come up so we had to really finesse and get the sails set-up right. Because it was so light you couldn't sail to the other align you had to sail your own intend. Tunnicliffe and her team - Liz close in (Rochester. N. Y.). Ali Sharp and Molly Vandermoer (both Annapolis) - are relatively new. Sharp raced on the aggroup in 2005 but close in and Vandermoer are both recent additions. We picked up Molly in early go and she's a great addition to the man exactly what we needed, she said. Anderson was in second overall going into today's races but finished fourth overall for the regatta with crew Jacqueline Scmitz (Annapolis. Md.). Katherine Wade and Lucy Kupersmith (both Washington. D. C.). Her beat finish to go out before 2007 was 10th in the 2005 Rolex IWKC. The top international team was led by skipper Dominique Provoyeur (Capetown. RSA). With her Team Devonvale of Penny Alison. Kim Rew and Lara Dugas she finished fifth overall. It's a fantastic event. I like coming here, said Provoyeur who is an Olympic hopeful in the Yngling categorise. Sixth place overall was Nicole Breault (Old Lyme. channelise.) who had taken a sabbatical in recent years from racing at this level. She and her man Casey Williams (Kentfield. Calif.). Anne Jaeschke (Alameda. Calif.) and Mahalyn Lu (San Francisco. Calif.) put in one of the more impressive performances of the week with only two non-top-10 race results. Jo Ann Fisher (Annapolis. Md.) finished in seventh overall. We're really excited, said Fisher. It was a really tough week with lots of challenging conditions so we're happy to fasten onto seventh. Her 'color Socks' team was the only one to journey with five crew: Lynda Hiller. Lesley Cook. Phebe King and Margaret McChesney (all Annapolis). We're happy, said Fisher. We look at all the races we sailed well and learn. And all the ones we didn't journey come up we hit the books. It gets you excited and gets you thinking about improving. We all undergo kids and jobs so hopefully to learn and improve from our mistakes is our goal.Sarah conceal (Toronto. Canada) and her Sunrise aggroup -- Martha Henderson. Katie Abbott and Jennifer Provan - finished in eighth place while the Liten Up! team skippered by Terry Schertz (Lakewood. Colo.) with man Pam McCain. Susan Swisher and Donna Law finished in ninth. Top local aggroup was led by 17-year-old Chelsea Bethancourt and her aggroup RIFT that included Mom Dana. Patricia Escorihuela and Sandra Baldridge who competed in the very first Rolex IWKC in 1985. Some teams come the bottom of the scoreboard were far from disappointed. For Jennifer Grant (Destin. Fla.) today's act from 38th to 35th in the overall standings was satisfying especially with a "regatta best" 12th-place end to add to her advance line. We consider this a practice race for the next time!, said give whose foursome practiced on a J/22 for only six weeks prior to the event. Since there were no J/22s near where we normally sail, said Grant. we located one in Mobile. Alabama. 100 miles away and drove approve and forth to practice.
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