JSA SPECIAL AWARDS

Each year the JSA awards season trophies to sailors and instructors. These

championship trophies, which are described in the JSA Yearbook, are awarded

based on a sailor’s performance in specific events. There are also several awards

that focus on sportsmanship, character and dedication to sailing. These require

written nominations from program chairs, instructors, parents and sailors. Please

review these requirements and encourage your staff and sailors to think about

nominations during the course of the season.

BROOKE E. GONZALES MEMORIAL TROPHY

This trophy is awarded to a young woman who demonstrates

sportsmanship, exceptional ethical behavior and dedication to the sport of

sailing and outstanding sailing achievement. Nominations may come from

sailors, parents and club junior program staff/leaders.

SUSIE TROTMAN TROPHY

This trophy is awarded to the instructor who demonstrates outstanding

sailing instruction. Nominations may come from sailors, parents and club junior

program staff/leaders.

MITCHELL S. WEEKS TROPHY

This trophy is awarded for sportsmanship in the Club 420 (skipper and

crew separately) Laser and Laser Radial classes as selected by their peers. The

nomination form is distributed at major regattas, to club junior programs and

emailed directly to sailors in the JSA waiver database who are listed as Club

420, Laser and Laser Radial sailors.

The next few pages contain a backgrounder for the Gonzalez, Trotman and

Weeks trophies, as well as the nomination form for each trophy.

++ Please email nominations to info@jsalis.org or

fax 914-407-1540 or

mail to JSA, 1 Woodbine Ave., Larchmont NY 10538

JSA Web Site: www. JSALIS.org

Special JSA Awards With the summer season coming to a close, there are many aspects of sailing that we should reflect on. While reflecting upon the year, it is important that we keep in mind some special end of the year trophies that our sailors and instructors are eligible for.

The Brooke E. Gonzalez Memorial Trophy is awarded to a girl, chosen from nominations by clubs, who demonstrates exceptional character, dedication to the sport of sailing and outstanding sailing achievement among her female peers. Brooke Gonzalez was admired among her peers for her enthusiasm for sailing,

beginning with Optimists, through Blue Jays, Lasers and finally Intl

420s.

These attributes led her to be Commodore of American's Junior Yacht Club and a leading force of the Intl 420 Class US Team. Her bright smile and obvious excitement for sail racing was seen by many people at clubs all over the Sound. Brooke's friends collaborated to create this trophy to keep her memory alive. The Susie Trotman Trophy for outstanding sailing instruction is awarded to an instructor who exhibits ethical behavior

by both personal example and instruction. He or she also must show a high level of administrative competence, good communicative skills with parents and sailors, creative teaching techniques, responsibility and reliability, initiative, good judgment and leadership, dedication and motivation as well as have working relationships with peers.

Susie Trotman's contribution to training sailors spans over-25 years, including serving as chair of the junior sailing program at Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club, chair of the US Sailing national training committee, organizer of the Oyster Bay Sailing Foundation Advanced Racing Clinics, spearhead for the development of US Sailing instructor training courses, and regional training coordinator for the NY portion of US Sailing Area B.

Keep in mind those sailors and

instructors who have gone above

and beyond this sailing season

The Brooke E Gonzalez Trophy

The Susie Trotman Trophy

Do you know a sailor/instructor who fits the qualifications for any of these trophies?

The Trophy for “Sportsmanship in Junior Sailing” is in memory of Mitchell Shelton Weeks.

This silver trophy was first awarded in 1927 to the Seawanhaka class yacht "Seven Seas,"

then owned by Van S. Merle-Smith of the New York Yacht Club, on the Club's annual cruise. New York Yacht Club selected this particular piece to be the Mitchell S. Weeks Memorial Trophy because Reverend Van S. Merle-Smith, Jr., was Mitchell's godfather. The trophy remains on display at the NYYC clubhouse in New York City and keepers are awarded by the NYYC at the JSA’s annual awards ceremony.

Mitch's sailing career began at age six in dinghies. At age eight, he was sailing a Blue Jay

single-handed. As a young man, he was in great demand as fore-deck crew aboard racing and cruising boats. He raced in five Block Island Race Weeks, two Newport-Bermuda Races, and many Edlu, Block Island, and Vineyard Races.

Mitchell graduated from St. Paul's School in 1964, where he won the Tolland Medal awarded

for "Outstanding Sportsmanship, Dedication, Integrity, and Courage."

He was Junior Commodore of Indian Harbor Yacht Club in 1963. Mitch was a Junior Sailing Instructor at American Yacht Club in 1964. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968.

After three years in the U. S. Army, he entered the advertising business. At the time of his

death: he was a Senior Vice President of HBM/Creamer, Boston, MA.

Mitch was known and respected as a very competitive skipper. He was just reaching his peak

in 1985, winning his class in the New York Yacht Club annual cruise in his NY 40 "Indian Summer." That November, he was diagnosed as having acute leukemia.

Mitch, his wife Katie, and friends adopted the motto "Born to Win" for the long fight ahead. And

while in remission the following year, Mitch won his class at Block Island Race Week aboard "Indian Summer." Mitch Weeks died October 16, 1988.

The purpose of this trophy is to underscore for generations of young sailors to come

that the true benefits of sport come from the integrity, courage, and fairness with which the game is played.

BROOKE E. GONZALEZ MEMORIAL TROPHY

Awarded to a young woman who demonstrates sportsmanship, exceptional

ethical behavior, dedication to the sport of sailing and outstanding sailing

achievement.

Nominee_____________________________________________

Yacht Club___________________________________________

Qualifications_________________________________________

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Name of person submitting

the nomination_________________________________________

Attachment:

Letter from Jr. Sailing Program Chair/Committee

Qualifications should include:

Examples of ethical behavior, dedication to sailing and sailing

achievement.

SUSIE TROTMAN TROPHY

FOR OUTSTANDING SAILING INSTRUCTION

Nominee_____________________________________________

Yacht Club___________________________________________

Qualifications_________________________________________

__________________________________________

__________________________________________

__________________________________________

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Name of person submitting

the nomination_________________________________________

Attachments:

• Letter from Jr. Sailing Program Chair/Committee

Does this person demonstrate

• ethical behavior in personal example and in instruction

• a high level of administrative competence

• good communicative skills with sailors & parents

• creative teaching techniques

• responsibility and reliability

• initiative

• good judgment & leadership

• dedication & motivation

• effective working relationships with peers

Optional statements from jr. sailors or parents•

MITCHELL S. WEEKS TROPHY

Awarded for exceptional sportsmanship in the Club 420 (skipper and crew

separately), Laser and Laser Radial classes

Nominee_____________________________________________

Yacht Club___________________________________________

Class (circle): Laser Radial C420 skipper C420 crew

Qualifications_________________________________________

__________________________________________

__________________________________________

__________________________________________

__________________________________________

Name of person submitting

the nomination_________________________________________

Attachments:

Letter from Jr. Sailing Program Chair/Committee

Qualifications should include

Examples of ethical behavior (including integrity, courage, and

fairness in sailing competition).

When voting, please keep in mind your candidate’s behavior over the

season, not just a single regatta. Your choices for the double-handed skipper

and crew do not need to be from the same boat.

Optional statements from jr. sailors