Clinic & Coaching

The clinic portion of the event includes intensive work on and off the water followed by three days of racing.

The U.S. coaching team is led by Betsy Alison (pictured to the left), a five-time winner of the prestigious U.S. Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year award.
She also was named 1999 Sailing Coach of the Year by the U.S. Olympic Committee for her work with disabled, youth, and women sailors. Ms. Alison is the current head coach for the United States Disabled Sailing Team (USDST).

Another prodigious coach featured in this year's C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Clinic & Regatta is Craig Guthrie. (pictured to the right)

Craig's background in sailing begins in skiffs from International 14's to 49ers, 18 and 12 foot Skiffs and dinghies classes of the 505 and Fireball. Coaching sailing for 12 years, he began coaching sailors with disabilities in the 2.4mR and SKUD classes in 2007. Craig's results at the high performance end of sailing are notable but his passion for development in sailing in all classes remains fundamental to his coaching focus.

Coaching Highlights:

• Gold Medal for Team Canada in the 2.4mR at the 2008 Paralympic Games in China
• Bronze Medal for Team Canada in the SKUD at the 2008 Paralympic Games in China
• 2008 Petro Canada Sports Leadership Award
• 2009 IKON Awards Coach of the Year
• NSYA Coach of the Year 2008
• NCCP 4 High Performance Coaching Diploma
• National Coaching Institute at University of Victoria Class of 2002
• National Academy of Sport Medicine CPT

Stan Schreyer (pictured left)
Age – 31
Home – Northampton, MA

Stan’s sailing accomplishments include Collegiate All-American, Collegiate Sportsman of the Year honors, and a Collegiate National title at Boston University. After graduating from college in 1999, Stan went to work for Vanguard Sailboats in the company’s Sales and Marketing Department. Stan left Vanguard in 2001 to begin a full time Olympic campaign as a Tornado helmsman. Since the end of his Olympic campaign, Stan has filled his time working on various boatbuilding projects including the Cogito Project for the International C-Class Catamaran Championship and Revolution Boats’ Lightspeed 32 catamaran project. He has 4 national titles and he has also won the Chicago-Mackinaw Race. Stan has raced on several catamaran and monohull campaigns over the years, including Tommy Hilfiger Sailing’s Extreme 40 team and Rocketeer Racing.

Sailing Highlights
• 1999 US Collegiate National Champion – Boston University
• US National Sailing Team, Tornado Class – 2002, 2003, 2004
• 2004 International C-Class Catamaran Championships – 2nd Place
• 2005 US Multihull Champs – 2nd Place – Rocketeer Racing Team
• 2005 US National Trimaran Championship – 2nd Place
• 2005 Chicago to Mackinaw Race – 1st Place
• 2006 Key West Race Week, Corsair 28 Class – 1st Place
• 2006 US Trimaran Nationals – 1st Place
• 2006 Volvo Extreme 40 Grand Prix – 1st Place – Tommy Hilfiger Sailing
• 2006 Around the Isle of Wight Race – 2nd Place
• 2007 Fort Lauderdale to Key West Race – 1st Place Multihull
• 2007 Doublehanded Farallones Race – 2nd Place Multihull
• 2007 Centomiglia Race – 1st Place – Tommy Hilfiger Sailing
• 2008 Centomiglia Race – 1st Place – Tommy Hilfiger Sailing
• 2009 Swan 42 US National Championships – 1st Place

Isabelle (pictured right)

A 2008 World Champion and a 2004 Olympian, Isabelle Kinsolving Farrar grew up in New York City, sailing out of Fishers Island Yacht Club right across the sound from Erin Maxwell. Isabelle succeeded in junior sailing on a club and local level in Optimists, Blue Jays and Club 420’s. Isabelle graduated high school from Groton School in Massachusetts, where she was co-captain of the Girls’ Ice Hockey Team and a member of the New England Champion rowing team. As an undergraduate at Yale University, Isabelle played Women’s Varsity Ice Hockey for two years before concentrating on sailing. She skippered for both the Women’s and Varsity Sailing Teams, captained the Varsity Team in 2000, and lead the Women’s Team to a New England Championship in 2002, her senior year.

While in college, Isabelle started sailing 470’s in 2001, crewing for Katie McDowell. Isabelle won the 2004 470 US Olympic Trials, earning the right to represent the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. In 2004, Isabelle finished 3rd in the 2004 European Championships and 8th at the World Championships, before placing 5th at the Olympics. Competing in the 2004 Olympics only made Isabelle’s desire for Olympic Gold grew in intensity.

Isabelle and Erin joined forces in July 2006, after having competed against each other for all of their sailing careers. Together they have achieved tremendously, winning the 2008 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia. With Erin, Isabelle is determined to get to the top of the Olympic podium in London in 2012.

A Political Science and Economics double-major at Yale University, Isabelle will be graduating from New York University School of Law in May 2011. Isabelle is a member of the Fishers Island, New York, and Stonington Harbor Yacht Clubs.

Isabelle’s Top Sailing Accomplishments:

US Sailing Team Member, 2001-2011
• 3rd, 2011 470 North Americans (North American Champion)
• 3rd, 2010 Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta, Weymouth, UK
• 11th, 2010 470 World Championships, The Hague, Netherlands
• 7th, 2010 US Sailing’s Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, Women’s 470
• 10th, 2009 470 World Championships, Denmark
• 3rd, 2009 Delta Lloyd Regatta, Women’s 470
• 2nd, 2009 US Sailing’s Rolex Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, Women’s 470
• 2008, Shortlisted for the US Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Award
• 1st, 2008 470 World Championships
• 1st, 2008 Sail Melbourne Asia Pacific Regatta
• 2nd, 2007 US Women’s 470 Olympic Trials
• 10th, 2007 470 World Championships
• 3rd, 2007 Princess Sofia Regatta, Women’s 470
• 17th, 2005 470 World Championships
• 2004, Shortlisted for the US Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year Award
• 5th, 2004 Summer Olympics, Women’s 470
• 8th, 2004 470 World Championships
• 7th, 2004 Kiel Week, Women’s 470
• 3rd, 2004 470 European Championships
• 1st, 2003 US Women’s 470 Olympic Trials
• 1st, 2003 US Sailing’s Rolex Miami OCR, 470 Women
• 5th, 2003 Pre-Olympics, Women’s 470
• 1st, 2002 US Women’s 470 Pre-Trials
• 1st, 2002 ICSA Women’s New England College Championships (2nd A Div.)
• 2000 Captain Yale Sailing Team

Jonathan K. Farrar (pictured left)
Farrar Racing LLC
New London, CT.

COACHING EXPERIENCE

Olympic
1. U.S. Disabled Sailing Team, Skud Coach September 2009
• Gold Medal 2009 Sail For Gold Regatta, Weymouth, England


2. Advanced Equities Tornado Team 2004-2008
• Coached two teams, guiding Drew Wierda / Don Thinschmidt’s development from youth to elite level
• Scheduled practices and competitions, organized global travel logistics


3. United States Olympic Tornado Team, John Lovell / Charles Ogletree Private Coach 2004
• 2nd 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens, Greece



4. New Zealand Tornado Coach Feb. - Mar. 2004


5. United States Olympic 470 Team, J.J. Isler / Pease Glaser Private Coach 1998-2000
• 2nd 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney, Australia.
• 1st 2000 U.S. Sailing 470 Olympic Team Trials, St. Petersburg, FL.


6. Jamaican Olympic Sailing Team, Head Coach and Team Leader 1996 Summer Olympics 1996

College
7. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Off-shore Coach and Safety Officer Fall 2006
• Coached weekly practices for Sloop Team, ultimately placing 3rd at College Sloop Nationals


8. UNH Varsity Sailing Team, Head Coach Fall 1997 - Spring 1998


9. Smith College Club Sailing Team, Head Coach Fall 1995 - Spring 1996


10. Contract Coach
• Boston University Varsity Sailing Team, Nationals Training Coach. B.U. team won Nationals. 1999
• Columbia University Club Sailing Team, Spring Break Coach 1999

High School / Youth
11. Mamaroneck High School, Mamaroneck, NY. High School Head Coach Fall 2009


12. Providence Country Day, Providence, RI. High School Head Coach Spring 2008


13. Elite Clinic Coach
• California International Sailing Association Clinic 2004 - 2007
• Brooke Gonzalez Sail Newport Clinic 2005,2006,2008


14. Ransom Everglades, Coconut Grove, FL. 420 Racing Coach Fall 1998 – Spring 1999
• Coached practices three days / week, traveled with team to regattas


15. Coconut Grove Sailing Club, Coconut Grove, FL. Optimist and 420 Racing Coach Winter 1998, 1999


16. Miami Yacht Club, Miami, FL. Summer Director and Head Coach Summer 1998
• Optimists, 420’s.


17. Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, Coconut Grove, FL. Summer Director and Head Coach Summer 1997
• Organized program for approximately 80 sailors, managing three other coaches
• Optimists, JY 15’s, 420’s