Martha Pitt, Airwaves Writer
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Martha Pitt grew up in Milton, Massachusetts. Summering on Martha's Vineyard, MA, she learned how to sail and race optis and 420s at the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club and fell in love with the sport. She went to Milton Academy where she sailed on and was captain of the Varsity Sailing Team, winning the ISSA Team Race Nationals in 2002. You can contact her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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Elizabeth Dudley grew up sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. She went to The Gunston School where she sailed and was captain of the Varsity Sailing Team. Elizabeth also attended and graduated from Boston College in May 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She sailed for the Boston College Varsity Sailing Team all four years on the women's circuit as a crew and was twice named to the NEISA First Crew Team. Elizabeth is now living and working in the Maryland/DC area. You can reach Elizabeth at : This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
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Margaret Boehm is a senior Catholic University student. She has sailed and coached in the Chicago area and raced 420s at the national level as a member of Columbia
Yacht Club's racing team. As a student journalist/editor for her University's newspaper, she assisted with stories that were eventually picked up by CNN and the Drudge Report. She also conducted interviews with high profile Washingtonians Barbara Slavin of the Washington Times and Paul Begala of CNN. She has volunteered as an assistant high school sailing coach with DC Sail and sails V-15s out of Annapolis. You can contact her at
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Tom Sitzmann, Owner
Tom Sitzmann is a lifelong sailor, with 30 years of coastal and blue-water cruising experience. Also a veteran of offshore races from Maine to Annapolis and Bermuda, Tom helped deliver Midshipman crews safely to Bermuda while coaching at the US Naval Academy, and also completed a transatlantic passage aboard an Alden 44. He is the former head coach of the nationally recognized Severn School Sailing Team. In just his third year with the program, under Tom's guidance, Severn School won the Mallory Trophy, US High School Sailing's National Championship. Severn is the first and only Chesapeake Bay school ever to win a National Championship.
Sitzmann came to Severn after working as the head coach for the Bowdoin College intercollegiate dinghy sailing team in 1999-2005, where he led the Polar Bears to new heights in team racing, dinghy and women's sailing. While in Maine he also started his own successful sail-making business. Before Bowdoin, Sitzmann coached sailing at the US Naval Academy.
Sitzmann has won New-England and Mid-Atlantic district championships in the Laser and J/24 classes, and holds top national finishes in the J/24 & J/22 Classes. He now sails a J/120 with his family and occasionally races a Laser, and recently won the NASS-Oxford race aboard his J/120, Airwaves.
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