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The countdown to the Games is on! We are less than two weeks away from the Opening Ceremony, and just under three weeks from the start of the first race for the Nacra 17. If you want to get daily updates please head over to instagram and follow @sarahnewberrymoore and @usa50racing. We are happy to share that we have an ace of a social media manager taking over our accounts for Games time, and she has a treasure trove of content, a direct contact on site, and is privileged to the best and newest images and content available. You won’t want to miss these updates, so be sure to follow!
USA 50 Racing Team gear is ready to rock n’ roll! Click on the link to purchase your very own team kit from our website. In the shop you can find “Strawberry and Love Mountain” hats, t-shirts, toddler shirts, and stickers. We also have our classic USA 50 logo sticker for sale, as well as some incredible coffee cups (both enamelware and ceramic).
We have everything you need to follow sailing at the 2024 Olympic Games right at this link. You don’t need any other resource.
From the US Sailing Page: “US Sailing has confirmed the names of the 13 sailors representing the United States at the Paris Olympic Games this coming July and August in Marseille, France. The team hails from seven U.S. states and territories including California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Rhode Island, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Wisconsin.
“We’re very proud to bring this group of 13 to Marseille this summer,” said Marcus Lynch, High-Performance Director. “It’s been an inspiring, impressive Trials season with a deep lineup of talented athletes across all disciplines who have fought hard to represent the US on the Olympic stage. With our roster now finalized, the Team is dialed in on fine-tuning skills to perform at their best.” Read more about the team here.
The 2024 Olympic Games will be held from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
The Sailing events for the 2024 Olympic Games will be held in Marseille, France, a Mediterranean port city in southern France. Marseille, renowned for its sailing conditions, is one of the most iconic international sailing venues. The newly designed Roucas Blanc Marina will host all sailing events.
Sailing in Marseille, offers a unique and challenging environment for competitors. As the oldest city in France, Marseille is known for its rich maritime history and iconic waterfront. The sailing conditions in Marseille are varied, with strong Mistral winds and the potential for both calm and choppy seas, providing a rigorous test for sailors. The city hosted several significant sailing events, making it a well-prepared venue for the Olympic sailing competitions.”
The @ycprmarseille Magic Regatta has just wrapped up, concluding our final warm-up event before the Olympic Games!!🙌 We are feeling proud of our hard work. We are so fired up to be on the Olympic start line in this amazing fleet.
I am unbelievably excited to use my platform during the Games to share our story and give you a front row seat to all the action!!💥 I’ll be working closely with friends, family, and a special Instagram wizard to provide all of the Olympic content you could possibly need 🧚🇺🇸✨
Keep messaging. Keep cheering. Keep following along. The support is fuel to the fire, and I can’t wait to reconnect with everyone once the Games are complete. Let’s do this. 🍓⛰️💪🌬️🇺🇸💥
From US Sailing: “🚨SARAH NEWBERRY MOORE & DAVID LIEBENBERG have won Nacra 17 selection early and will go on to represent the United States at the Paris 2024 Olympics this summer🚨 Today wrapped the qualifying series where the top 25 advance to finals at the Nacra 17 World Championships in La Grande Motte, France. Because of their advancement to the top 25, Sarah and David are guaranteed enough points between them and Carson / Lindsay to secure early qualification for Paris.”
From Sarah: “I’ve been off instagram since our Olympic Trials started last month. Now I can say we’ve accomplished the goal so I’m back to deliver the good news!
Future Olympians. We’ve been working a long time for this and it’s an unreal feeling. Thanks to our team on the ground: Tom Zajac, Angela Popiol, Tim Herzog. Thanks to our team at home (who logged so many hours abroad to make this happen) starting with Emmett Moore and Julia Paxton, our partners and sometimes coaches. Thank you to our parents, who helped plant the seeds for this dream… and provided the support (and maybe genes) we needed to become determined enough individuals to be able to reach it. Thank you to my in-laws, who have had my back through thick and thin over the last three years of campaigning. Thank you to my uncle Jamie for teaching me to love catamaran sailing. Thank you to my Aunt Michele and to David’s Aunt Irene for being major donors to our campaign whenever we needed it most! Thank you to Bobby and Jojo, who kept us on track when we knew we could do this… we just didn’t know how!
Thank you to @primedadrienne for your constant support from afar 💗 and to @frankietelfort and @oldbullathletics for all the quality training.
I hope I can convey to the family and friends who provided love, support, childcare, funding, advice… just how valued and appreciated you are. This win is yours too.
Finally, thank you to all of our donors on the east and west coasts! Special thanks to Richmond Yacht Club Foundation who have gone above and beyond over the last 6 years to help us achieve this dream. Thank you to Skiff Sailing Foundation, St Francis Sailing Foundation, Sailing Foundation of New York, &Mother, and of course, the US Sailing Team.” I’ve been off instagram since our Olympic Trials started last month. Now I can say we’ve accomplished the goal so I’m back to deliver the good news!
Future Olympians. We’ve been working a long time for this and it’s an unreal feeling.
Thanks to our team on the ground: Tom Zajac, Angela Popiol, Tim Herzog. Thanks to our team at home (who logged so many hours abroad to make this happen) starting with Emmett Moore and Julia Paxton, our partners and sometimes coaches. Thank you to our parents, who helped plant the seeds for this dream… and provided the support (and maybe genes) we needed to become determined enough individuals to be able to reach it. Thank you to my in-laws, who have had my back through thick and thin over the last three years of campaigning. Thank you to my uncle Jamie for teaching me to love catamaran sailing. Thank you to my Aunt Michele and to David’s Aunt Irene for being major donors to our campaign whenever we needed it most! Thank you to Bobby and Jojo, who kept us on track when we knew we could do this… we just didn’t know how!
Thank you to @primedadrienne for your constant support from afar 💗 and to @frankietelfort and @oldbullathletics for all the quality training.
I hope I can convey to the family and friends who provided love, support, childcare, funding, advice… just how valued and appreciated you are. This win is yours too.
Finally, thank you to all of our donors on the east and west coasts! Special thanks to Richmond Yacht Club Foundation who have gone above and beyond over the last 6 years to help us achieve this dream. Thank you to Skiff Sailing Foundation, St Francis Sailing Foundation, Sailing Foundation of New York, &Mother, and of course, the US Sailing Team.”
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Richmond Yacht Club Foundation - The purpose of the Foundation is to foster amateur national and international yacht racing by assisting in the training and education of amateur sailors for participation in such competition.
Donation Mailing Address: Richmond Yacht Club,
351 Brickyard Cove Rd. Richmond, CA 94801
Check made out to: Richmond Yacht Club Foundation
Memo: “FBO Liebenberg Newberry Olympic”
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Skiff Sailing Foundation - The Skiff Sailing Foundation is a 501c3 publicly supported qualified amateur sports organization dedicated to the promotion and support of High Performance Sailing”
Donation mailing address: Skiff Sailing Foundation, 933 Polk St.
Albany, CA 94706
Check made out to: Skiff Sailing Foundation
Memo: “Nacra 17”
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The Sailing Foundation of New York - The Sailing Foundation of New York is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the support and growth of education, competition and sporting activities in the sailing community.
Donation Mailing Address: Sailing Foundation of New York,
PO Box 124 Rye, NY 10580
Check made out to: Sailing Foundation of New York
Memo: “Sarah Newberry Olympic Campaign”
The Strawberry Love Mountain story… USST Nacra 17 coach, @tomsailing, is a 2x Olympian in the Nacra for Austria and a Rio 2016 Bronze Medalist 🥉 who only recently transitioned from campaigning athlete to coach.
While on the circuit himself, he and other international Nacra sailors coined nicknames for Sarah and David: Sarah Newberry became “Strawberry” and Liebenberg translates directly to “Love Mountain” in German.
Last December we brought the nicknames to life in a design as a gift to @usa50racing and turned it into a small run of t-shirts and stickers. The stickers hang out on their gear box and on their mast and are a nice reminder of a funny inside joke, but now you’re in on the joke too 😉
UPDATE: t-shirts, baby gear, mugs, and stickers can be ordered right here on the website at this link: Team Gear
Strawberry and Love Mountain
🇺🇸 Still with a Medal Race left to go, @usa50racing has secured a spot for USA at the @paris2024 Olympic Games in the Nacra 17 🇺🇸
Sarah and David needed to finish as the top North American country at the Pan American Games this week to qualify the USA, and by putting enough points between themselves and Canada, they’ve gotten the job done with a day to spare.
Argentina is already guaranteed Gold on Saturday, so Sarah and David will battle for silver against the Brazilians 🥈
With country qualification complete, the top USA Nacra 17 team will get selected in 2024 to represent Team USA in Paris. Link in bio for selection details.
📸 @matias_capizzano @santiago2023oficial
By Michelle Slade
Sarah Newberry Moore’s son, Iren, just turned 2. Not only is he already wreaking havoc at the New York YC—scattering Goldfish crackers across the manicured lawn at Harbour Court and spilling his grandmother’s wine in the prestigious club library—but he’s also beginning to know his way around a Nacra 17 better than most adults.
Iren was, for all intents and purposes, born into the current Olympic quad, so it’s not surprising that he is quickly learning the ins and outs of elite sailboat racing, just as his mom and her sailing partner, David Liebenberg, have had to adapt to having a baby in the campaign mix. It’s an arrangement that is working out just fine.
“If you ask Iren what momma does, it’s ‘sailboat with Uncle Dave,’” Newberry Moore says with a smile. “Any time he sees a man with brown hair, he says, ‘Uncle Dave,’ and any man on a sailboat is Uncle Dave. Luckily, his dad looks very different. Dave has been showing him how to do boatwork, and he loves touching all of the parts of the boat and pulling on the lines.”… More at the link below
Worlds 2023!
After a tough qualifying series in which we struggled to find our pace, we battled out two really strong days of racing and posted some scores we are proud of. Our starts improved from racing in Marseille last month, as did our lane management and problem solving skills. This was the first big wave big current championship for us as a team and it definitely upped our level. We saw up to 2+ knots of current at times which made for some memorable moments (think offset mark floating down the race course with some serious speed)
Congratulations to our friends and training partners @majdalanibosco.sailing for cinching the win of their Olympic trials and Olympic slot at this event. We are so proud of you!
We walk away from this worlds one point behind the legend, @santilange , who has been an absolute honor to know and to race against. Grateful to share the racecourse with him at his last Olympic championship. Thank you Santi for being such an inspiration to all of us.
Now on to spend time at home with family, then some training in Marseille in September. In October we head to the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, where we will compete to earn a ticket to the Olympic Games for the USA!
One year to go to the Olympics. We are out here giving it our all, and taking both the wins and losses as fuel for the fire🔥
Woohoo! USA is medal race bound tomorrow. Watch us race at 1:00PM local time (7AM EST). Despite some unique challenges this week we never stopped fighting for the points we could get. Excited to leave it all out there tomorrow on the medal race course 🔥♥️🇺🇸
You’re looking at the US Olympic Test Event team in the Nacra 17 🙏 Grateful to get to represent the USA at the Olympic Venue one year before the Games. Racing starts July 11th and we’ll be focusing our training on the waters of Marseille until then.
*OKAY I know I have a black eye in this photo but it’s our only professional pic as a team and I got the black eye in a speedy jibe 😂
With 250+ days planned on the campaign trail in 2023, three boats positioned strategically around the world, and two peak events, our program is operating at a high level to be sure that we can meet our goals.
It’s an important year for the team. We need to qualify the USA for the Olympics at either the 2023 World Championship or at the 2023 Pan American Games (both in summer 2023). We’ve also been pouring an immense number of hours into training and development. As our program has become increasingly more elite, it has also become necessary to spend money where it will make the biggest impact… coaching!
We brought Tom Zajac (2016 Olympic Bronze Medalist in the Nacra 17) on board in mid-2022, and we couldn’t be happier with our progress and with the program we have begun to develop as a three person team. Currently, the costs of bringing a coach and boat around the world with us well exceed the pledges of over $200,000 we have received for 2023. As of January 2023, we need to raise approximately $108,531 to be able to get through the year and keep the campaign running like a well oiled machine.
Please send us an email at usa50racing@gmail.com to receive more detailed information and exact budget numbers. We would be thrilled to provide you with any information you need to inform your donation or pledge. Your support matters greatly to us, and every bit of help takes some of the stress off as we focus our energy on the water and in the gym.
Remember, every donation you make to us through The Richmond Yacht Club Foundation or The Skiff Sailing Foundation is tax-deductible. Online donations can be made here: www.usa50racing.com/donate. For larger donations, please direct your donation via check to:
Memo: “Liebenberg Newberry Olympic Sailing”
351 Brickyard Cove Road
Richmond, CA 94801
USA
USA 50 is excited to announce a newfound partnership with a non-profit organization, The International SeaKeepers Society. SeaKeepers promotes oceanographic research, conservation, and education through direct involvement with the yachting community. Providing educational resources and hands-on marine science experiences to students is the primary focus for ensuring the future well-being of our planet. SeaKeepers enables the yachting community to take full advantage of their unique potential to advance marine sciences and raise awareness about global ocean issues.
Through this collaboration, USA 50 will advocate for the protection and restoration of the ocean through Citizen Science and Community Engagement. Follow @USSailingTeam and @SeaKeepers to learn more about how you can get involved in this initiative!
WOW! 2022 is almost at a close. We have had a great three weeks of training at home in Miami with our coach, Tom Zajac, and with the help of some of the younger ODP athletes. Focus has been on sailing in the waves offshore Miami Beach, on upwind technique and speed, and on reinforcing some of the new skills we have learned downwind.
This month we also had the opportunity to kick off a new partnership with The International SeaKeepers Society, a non-profit dedicated to ocean conservation, research, and education. We are thrilled to share their message as we travel to ports around the world. You can learn more about SeaKeepers at www.seakeepers.org
After a short break post-Worlds, we left the US in mid-September for Marseille, France, the 2024 Olympic Venue, to do 3 weeks of training with some of the best teams in the world.
The first week here we had great breeze and waves and were finally able to diagnose the biggest problems with our downwind speed. Big step forward! We are now pacing with fast teams downwind in training. Now it will require countless hours of repetition be able to implement this new speed on the race course. Good thing we have a few months to get in the reps before our next competition in March.
Currently we are still in Marseille, halfway through this October training camp. This week we are working on upwind foiling in chop and waves. Super cool to learn how the rig setup affects the ease of sailing/trim in the seastate and how body weight can be best used to attain stability on the foil upwind. We are chipping away at better upwind speed in breeze and waves.
We will take a week off at the end of the month and then put in more time on the water here at the olympic venue in November. After that, Thanksgiving with family, and then some weeks of training at home with the US Team in Miami in December.
What a week! We finish 16th at Nacra 17 Worlds and make the US Sailing Team for 2023-24.
We had so many ups and downs this week. From taking a race win off of @ruggitita and @catebanti and following it with a 2, to making some major mistakes and racking up the points, we did it all!
It’s been 9 months since we got back to racing this boat, and 15 months since baby Iren arrived. We checked some big boxes at this Worlds and can see our potential. We are grateful to be surrounded by an excellent team. Coach Tom Zajac (@tomsailing), physios @ellisphysio and @angelapopiol, Iren’s BFF @missnostril, and our amazing family and friends, you are so appreciated.
We are excited for the coming months of training, and are grateful for your support - our fans, donors, followers! While we tried to take a social media break during race week, we received your many wonderful messages of encouragement, and they really filled our hearts. THANK YOU!
Countdown to the 2023 Worlds begins now…
@andmother_org @womenssportsfoundation @ussailingteam ussailingteam @kilroyrealty @gillmarine @harken_inc @harkenderm @newenglandropes
We had the best support crew. Our coach, bronze medalist Tom Zajac, his partner Anna and daughter Liora, Sarah’s mother and father in law, Leslie Lott and Michael Moore, Sarah’s husband Emmett and their son Iren. At the pre-Worlds Sarah and David snatched a third place overall and the whole crew was there to cheer them on. Before racing started, family left so that the team could focus!
Iren is obsessed with the coachboat steering wheel! Precious moments on the road together make the journey vibrant and fulfulling.
Iren and Emmett back in Miami watching mama race!
USA 50 on the starting line at Kiel Week
USA 50 Racing is in Aarhus, Denmark 2022
July 5, 2022
Day one of Europeans is done and dusted. We had nice pace upwind, lil better pace downwind than in Kiel (yay improvements!!) and some great starts. Here’s a little clip of our pin end start in race 1. Thanks super coach @julesmarie9 for this video!
When we left the dock we thought we’d be “speed racing” all day, but it turned out to be pretty shifty, cloud driven racing conditions. Oh yeah and that 30 knot squall that rolled through was fun. One of the trickiest days of racing we’ve had since we’ve been back in the boat. We had a nice day with a 12, something in the teens, and a 3 in the scores.
I’m proud of our team for a few reasons:
1. David has been off the water dealing with a nasty case of Covid since we arrived in Aarhus. Sorry we forgot to mention that before 🙂
Without any training time and just a quick splash yesterday we were just a bit out of routine. To be honest, because of how sick Dave has been we didn’t know if we’d be able to race the first day at all! And guess what? Exceeded our hopes. We did an excellent job managing expectations for today. Dave crushed it at pacing himself when his body struggled and being clear about what he needed from me. Not only that, but we really brought our best to each other all day.
2. Okay, also proud of our team because the work we’re doing on racing comms is paying off. When it got really hard on the course or the conditions became confusing today, we kept performing. Not perfect, but that’s not what we’re going for. We’re going for resilient and fast 🙂 and it’s getting better and better every race!
Day two tomorrow and our boat is happy and we are managing our health and choosing how to and when to push hard at our focal points. Really excited to get back out on the course tomorrow afternoon. Go USA 50!
JULY 6, 2022
Tough day in the office! We had excellent starts and top mark roundings today, but just couldn’t seem to convert that good stuff into solid races.
Struggled to keep the boat in top gear all the way around the course, with special difficulties on the second upwind beats!
That being said, it was another extremely shifty, funky day of sailboat racing. There were loads of passing lanes, and lots of giant lulls as obstacles. Had to be really head out of the boat in order to make sure not to miss the next change! We learned a lot… excited to take another shot at it tomorrow!
Thanks for following our racing! Sending you guys a big virtual hug for your good vibes. We’re working hard over here to squeeze the most out of these experiences racing with the fleet, and your support really means the world to us!
Let’s go!! Day 3 tomorrow!!
JULY 7, 2022
Better day today for USA 50. While our second beats improved a lot, we struggled to set up good first ones to work with. Dang it! Always something else to chip away at 🙂 Downwinds a click better than yesterday… little by little a little becomes a lot. Gotta take our wins today because they keep adding up.
Happy that we made gains in the places we set out to improve. Was a really shifty day out there, and staying on top of compass numbers seemed to be pretty important. Honestly, while it wasn’t always in our favor, the racing was pretty fun!
David is almost back at 100% and I’m grateful his health is returning. This virus is no joke + the last few days have been really hard on his body. Proud of this guy for sending it.
More work to do tomorrow. Yippee ki yay!!!
JULY 8, 2022
Day 4! 3 races in 15-25 kts. Flat water, puffy, shifty. Had 3 good starts. Happy with the mechanics + decisions on the starting line.
R1 - Started @ the pin in a huge lefty. Tacked immediately and were crossing the fleet. Struggled to foil well. Tried to sort out our speed. Got a little header and chose to tack back onto starboard + get farther left. We liked the left and had wanted to play that side. Soon we had made it into the left pressure + decided to “lead back” the group we were with so we could get lifted. That didn’t play out so well… the left pressure was high and shearing and we sailed out of it. Made gains in the following laps. Ok we got this!
R2 - Started near the pin in a lefty. Hung w our pack for a minute or so, but were still clearly not as fast as the boats around us. Okay, starting to feel like a set up issue, not technique. It looked like the boats above us on starboard were going to have us on the port layline. Decided to get clear early on a left shift. We waited for our moment. Came into a header and pressure, and when the boat in front of us tacked and the boat below us tacked, we led. AGAIN we fell out of the lefty and watched as the far left and far right both filled… ouch. Went well downwind, but lost even more second upwind. Def our worst race of the series 🤦♀️ Oh well at least our downwind speed is getting so much better!! Super cool to be ripping downwind instead of struggling there 🙂
R3 - Frustrated but resolute after race two, we screwed our heads on and made some setup changes. Then we made some strategy changes. Started a little higher on the line, held longer to the left to make sure we stayed in the left pressure. Oh wow! Much better speed! We were finally not fighting the boat. Positive set up changes. Good downwinds and a really good last upwind and we put together the best race of our day. Woohoo!!!!!
Learned so much about set up + technique in really breezy foiling today. We’re lucky to have these conditions in which to improve. Thanks to David for his immense patience with me today as I learn and fail at tactics! Tomorrow we are looking forward to applying the things we learned. Here we go!!!
JULY 9, 2022
2022 Nacra Euros has come to an end. We finish 16th after two races today.
Very wild race course close to shore with an offshore breeze. We knew anything could happen so we tried to make a plan with that in mind. Turned out to be much simpler than we thought… go left! First race we hedged right and had to fight tooth and nail for every point. Second race we went left and things fell into place.
Overall we feel proud that we sailed this event after a week without training, some serious Covid, and our coach’s flight canceled and delayed until after racing started.
We learned so much and checked some important boxes.
Excited to get back home and put in some time training in Newport. Thank you for your support and love!!!
