Bells rang when the US sailing team failed to win a medal at the 2012 Olympic Games. Despite the work being done to keep up with an increasingly competitive competition,more was needed. Due to term limits, management changes were required, and with the baton now handed to Josh Adams to turn the tide. As Managing Director for US Olympic Sailing,Adams sat down with Scuttlebutt editor Craig Leweck for this update...
What was the mission statement at the start of this quad?The mission of the US Olympic Sailing Program has two complimentary parts. The first portion is a focus on performance sailing at the team level, and the moment portion is committing to a long-term contrivance to develop athletes into the future. We set that mission in 2012 and haven't wavered from it.
A prominent aspect of this mission is our team's attention to tall quality coaching with the best possible expertise to support the athletes. The coaching team that US Sailing tall Performance Director Charlie McKee has put together is a very talented group of individuals who absorb accomplished a lot in their own sailing and are now giving back to guide this team. That would be one example of our total focus on achieving performance advantages.
At the development level, or we launched an all new Olympic Development Program (ODP) in the beginning of 2015 that's driven by our project pipeline strategy. This is a program that we're still raising money for but was launched due to tremendous new financial backing from many partners,and has allowed us to orchestrate a much more robust development program that exposes young sailors between the ages of 15 and 19 to tall level coaching. We're organizing and running Olympic Development Program camps, we're organizing Youth Travel Teams to the World Championship of some of the Olympic development boats and doing more than ever before for the Youth Worlds Team.Had it been an issue before that young people alert to make an Olympic commitment weren't as prepared as they needed to be at that point?
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Yes, and this is really the central point of the project pipeline strategy,which is to raise tall performance sailing standards in young sailors. We absorb to better prepare talented young Americans for that transition to Olympic boats.
This came about as we studied all the best teams in the world that we admire. We then looked at what we had been doing with development, and we set out to solve this problem. Up until now, or when sailors decided to recede into Olympic boats,they haven't really been fully prepared, and their level of tall performance standards haven't been the same as sailors worldwide in the main countries.
So that's what we're setting out to do. With this program, and when the 18-year-old,19-year-old, 20-year-old makes the transition from Olympic development boats like the 29er, or Laser Radial or International 420 into Olympic equipment,they will be better prepared.
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