Lanee Butler

FULL NAME:     Lanee Butler
NAME FOR PUBLICATION:  Lanee Butler
CLASS:    Mistral W
POSITION: Skipper
COACH:  Skip Whyte
US SAILING TEAM:   1990-1996
1996 Team Ranking:  #1
YACHT CLUB:  Dana Point Yacht Club
HIGH SCHOOL:  Dana Hills High School, graduated 1988.
COLLEGE:  U.C. Irvine, graduated 1993, BA in Fine Arts.
BIRTHDATE:  6/3/70              MARITAL STATUS:  Single
BIRTHPLACE:  Manhasset, NY     HOMETOWN:  Dana Point, CA
HEIGHT:  5'4"  WEIGHT:  125             SAILING SINCE AGE:  10

SAILING RESUME:
1996

• Olympic Trials, Savannah (1st/11 boards)
• World Champs, Haifa (12th/69 boards)

1995

• Pan American Games, Argentina (Bronze Medal)
• Pan Am Games Trials, Ft. Pierce, FL (1st/10 boards)
• Mistral Worlds, South Africa (13th/70 boards)
• US SAILING's Olympic Pre- Trials, Savannah (3rd/11 boards)
• Pre-Olympic Regatta, Savannah, GA (7th/38 boards)
• Miami OCR (5th/38 boards)
• Kiel Week, Germany (8th/42 boards)
• European Championships, Great Britain (10th/66 boards)

1994

• Goodwill Games, St. Petersburg, Russia (Bronze medal)
• World Boardsailing Champs, Gimli, Manitoba (4th/48 boards)
• Miami OCR (5th/26 boards)
• Savannah Spring OCR, GA (7th/31 boards--top woman)
• ABYC OCR, Long Beach, CA (10th/21 boards--2nd woman)
• SPORT, St. Petersburg, FL (16th/43 boards)

1993

• Mistral World Champs, Kashiwazaki, Japan (2nd overall)

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
1994/93

• US Olympic Festival Gold Medalist (Carlyle, IL/San Antonio, TX)

1993

• Sailing World's Women's Sailor Achievement Award

1992

• Olympic Representative, Barcelona

1991

• Pan American Games, Cuba, Gold medalist

1990

• US Olympic Festival Silver Medalist, Lake Minnetonka, MN
• US SAILING's USOC Female Athlete of the Year ('94, '93, '91)
• Tudor Boardsailor of the Year ('94, '91)

	Lanee stands alone as the only two-time winner of the Tudor Boardsailor
of the Year Award.  Recognized by the 1994 selection committee for her outstanding consistency,
put by one member: "No other female competitor, pro, or Olympic contender,
finishes at the top in every event in which she participates."  Lanee was immortalized
on a trading card by Sports Illustrated for Kids in May, 1994.

	In 1994 Lanee was the first boardsailor ever to compete in the Newport (Calif.)
to Ensenada Race (Mexico), which she finished in 29 1/2 hours, sailing through shark
infested waters off San Diego where a young woman had been attacked just prior to the event.
 She repeated the feat in '95 shaving time off her previous record.

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