Kris Stookey

FULL NAME:     Kristina Farrar Stookey
NAME FOR PUBLICATION:     Kris Stookey
CLASS: 470 W
POSITION: Skipper  (Crew:  Louise Van Voorhis)
COACH:  Luther Carpenter
US SAILING TEAM:   1993-1996
1996 Team Ranking: #1
YACHT CLUB:  The Belle Haven Club
HIGH SCHOOL:  Kent School, graduated 1987.
COLLEGE:  Brown University, graduated 1991, Biology.
BIRTHDATE:  6/30/69  MARITAL STATUS:  Married
BIRTHPLACE:  Martha's Vineyard, MA           HOMETOWN:  Darien,CT
HEIGHT:  5'5"  WEIGHT:  120             SAILING SINCE AGE:  8
OCCUPATION:  Training full-time for the Olympic Regatta.

SAILING RESUME:
1996

• Olympic Trials, Savannah (1st/6 boats)
• North Americans, Corpus Christi (3rd/26 boats--2nd women)
• World Champs, Brazil (8th/36 boats)
• Miami OCR (1st/16 boats)
• SPORT, St. Petersburg, FL (2nd/11 boats)

1995

• 470 North Americans, Canada (14th/59 boats--top women)
• US SAILING's Olympic Pre-Trials, Savannah, GA (3rd/10 boats)
• Pre-Olympic Regatta, Savannah, GA (7th/40 boats)
• 470 Worlds, Toronto, Canada (7th/31 boats)
• ABYC OCR, Long Beach, CA (4th/15 boats--top women)
• SPORT, St. Petersburg, FL (3rd/20 boats)
• Miami OCR (11th/24 boats)
• Marblehead OCR, MA (9th/27 boats--4th women)
• Fall OCR, Savannah, GA (7th/14 boats)

1994

• Pan Am Trials, Newport, RI (2nd/5 boats)
• SPORT, St. Petersburg, FL (9th/31 boats--2nd women)
• Miami OCR (12th/34 boats--3rd women)
• Spring OCR, Savannah, GA (7th/17 boats--3rd women)

1993

• Miami OCR (7th/22 boats--2nd women's division)
• 470 Nationals, Galesville, MD (2nd/30 boats--1st women)

1992

• Olympic Yachting Trials, Newport Beach (2nd/7 boats)

	Stookey and Van Voorhis began sailing against each other during
their boarding school days, then found themselves on rival high school
and college teams (Brown and Yale University, respectively).  "We're
as close as sisters and have all the same problems too," laughs Stookey.

	So her team could begin training full time in '95, Stookey last
year asked her employer, Pfizer, for a leave of absence from her
pharmaceutical sales job.  Not only did Pfizer support her decision, it
gave the duo a grant "so we could do it right and train on the water and in the gym
every day."  Van Voorhis also left her job as Brown's sailing coach.

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