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Shelley White at Airlie Race Week - 2008/08/18 09:21
BORN TO RACE.
Relatively small Yeppoon schoolgirl Shelley White (15) certainly has her sea legs in respect to achieving outstanding results in her sailing career.
The Australian Optimist dinghy champion raced in a traditional green and gold sailing suit when she contested the World championship in Turkey last month where she raced against a male dominated fleet of 250 teenagers representing 27 nations.
She achieved Australia’s best ever result at the Optimist World series finishing second in one heat and 13th female overall.
“Racing in my first Worlds in Turkey was a great educational experience,I made many friends who have the same career ambition to be a future Olympian”. Shelley said.
Her SLAM sailing suit hardy had time to dry when she packed her sea bag to race aboard Chris Dare’s sloop Audi Centre Melbourne in the International Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week over the Whitsunday Sailing Club courses.
Next weekend Shelley will pack her Queensland champion Sabot Stay Tuned and travel to the Sunshine Coast for the South Queensland River championship at Maroochydore.
This will be her last major championship before competing in the 2008 Australian championship off Airlie Beach during the Christmas-New Year.
Her recent results suggest Shelley White has a strong chance to become the second girl skipper in the history of Australian Sabot Class racing to win the National Gold Medal and ironically it will be in the same dinghy which Lauren Jeffries steered to victory in Townsville in 1998
Ian Grant
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