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Head Coach: Geoff Becker
Geoff Becker returned for his second stint as the
head sailing coach at Washington College in the summer of 2004.
Becker's coaching background includes
over 15 years of sailing instructional experience. While serving
as WC's head coach in 2002-03, Becker helped lift the WC sailing
team to new heights. Under his guidance, Washington sailed to
its best-ever finishes at both the War Memorial (the MAISA Fall
Championships) and the America Trophy (the MAISA Spring Championships). In 2004-05, Becker guided Washington to its first-ever team race regatta victory and its third-ever women's regatta victory. Washington also matched its best-ever finish at the America Trophy in Becker's first year back at the College. During the 2005-06 season, Becker led WC to a second-place finish at the MacMillan Cup in Washington's second-ever offshore competition and once again guided the team to its best-ever finish at the America Trophy. Becker led Washington to its first-ever appearance in a national championship-level regatta when the team qualified for the ICSA Co-Ed Dinghy National Championship Semifinals in 2008.
After his first stop at Washington, Becker spent the following year as
an assistant coach at Navy. Navy's women's sailing team finished
third at the ICSA North American Women's Dinghy Championship in
June, while the co-ed team finished sixth at the America Trophy.
Prior to his first stint at Washington,
Becker had most recently served as the dinghy coach at St. Mary's
(MD) College, where he coached three national championship teams
and 20 ICSA All-Americans. His first collegiate coaching job was
at UC-Santa Barbara, where he founded the head coaching position.
Later, he served as the dinghy coach at USC, where he led the
dinghy team to two ICYRA Dinghy Nationals in three years after
a six-year drought.
A certified US Sailing Instructor Trainer
since 1993, Becker has also held managerial and directorial positions
at the Annapolis Yacht Club, the US Sailing Center in Long Beach,
CA, and at the Santa Barbara Youth Foundation. Becker has served
as a US Sailing Certified Judge since 1994, as the Chairman of
the ICSA Procedural Rules Committee since 1999, and as a member
of the US Sailing Racing Rule Committee since 2002.
Becker graduated from UC-Irvine in
1993, where he was a two-time All-American and attended five consecutive
ICRYA National Dinghy Championships. He continues to take part
in competitive sailing and he authored the book "Sailing
Drills Made Easy."
E-mail Coach
Becker.
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