Louise Van Voorhis

FULL NAME:    Louise Van Voorhis
NAME FOR PUBLICATION: Louise Van Voorhis
CLASS: 470 W
POSITION:  Crew      (Skipper:  Kris Farrar)
US SAILING TEAM:   1990-1996
1996 Team Ranking: #1
YACHT CLUB:  Rochester Yacht Club
HIGH SCHOOL:  Hotchkiss School, graduated 1987.
COLLEGE:  Yale University, graduated 1991, B.A. History Studies in the Environment.
BIRTHDATE:  7/4/70                      MARITAL STATUS:  Single
BIRTHPLACE:  Rochester, NY             HOMETOWN: Rochester, NY
HEIGHT:  5'11 3/4"  WEIGHT:  150        SAILING SINCE AGE: 8
OCCUPATION:  Olympian

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)

SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
1996

• Olympic Representative

1992

• Alternate on the Olympic Yachting Team at Barcelona

	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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