US SAILING and the One-Design Class Council need to identify all one-design sailors who qualify as a Sailor Athlete in order to maintain one-design representation in our national governing body. The only way we can do that is if we can identify and count you.
The Sailor Athlete Council represents sailor's issues that come before US SAILING. By registering you will be able to nominate and then elect the sailors who will serve on the Council. The more one-design sailors who register, means the more votes we can cast ultimately giving us a greater voice within US SAILING. If you qualify by sailing in your class national, North American or World Championship, please register now.
It's quick.
It's easy.
It won't cost you anything.
It won't obligate you to do anything.
It won't reveal any deep dark secrets that are not already available somewhere on the web.
What it WILL do is to make sure that you as a one-design sailor are added to the list of qualified sailors at US SAILING. Your athlete designation will automatically appear in the US SAILING electronic directory. You may update it at any time.
All you need to do is go to this site and follow the simple directions. You must be a current US SAILING member to register.
Register now at http://www.ussailing.org/sac/athletes/register.asp
US SAILINGS definition of a Sailor Athlete:
3.3.1 A LEVEL Sailor Athletes shall have:
3.3.1.1 Represented the United States at the World Championships of an Olympic, Pan American or Paralympic class within the previous ten years and finished in the top half; or,
3.3.1.2 Represented the United States at an Olympic, Pan American or Paralympic Games in the last ten years.
3.3.2 B LEVEL Sailor Athletes shall have:
3.3.2.1 Represented the United States at an ISAF sanctioned World Championship within the previous ten years and finished in the top half; or
3.3.2.2 Placed in the top half of the US Olympic, Paralympic or Pan-Am trials within the previous ten years; or
3.3.2.3 Placed in the top one third of an ISAF Grade 1 Event, a US SAILING Championship or the National or North American Sailing Championship of a US SAILING member class within the last ten years; or the International Women's Keelboat Championship; or
3.3.2.4 Represented the United States within the last ten years by sailing and placing in the top half of a Category 1 or 0 Offshore event as defined by the ISAF Special Regulations; or
3.3.2.5 Competed in the Louis Vuitton or America's Cup in the last ten years.
3.3.3 C LEVEL Sailor Athletes shall have participated in any of the following events within the last ten years: A US SAILING Championship, the International Women's Keelboat Championship, the National or North American Sailing Championship of a US SAILING member class, a Category 1 or 0 Offshore event as defined by the ISAF Special Regulations, the US Olympic, Paralympic or Pan-Am Trials, an ISAF sanctioned World Championship, an ISAF Grade 1 Event.
(link to athlete definition: http://www.ussailing.org/sac/bylaws.asp#SADefinition)