LOCAL SAILOR GOES TO YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES

 ^{Olympian Jamie Peterkin, the Chef de Mission for the Games.}

Tuesday July 27, 2010 --With only three weeks to go until the start of the first ever Youth Olympic Games, St. Lucia’s five selected young athletes are busy preparing so that they can perform at their best.

The inaugural Youth Olympic Games will be held in Singapore from 14^{th to 26th August 2010. Every National Olympic Committee has been invited to send at least four athletes, who must be in the 14 to 18 years age range. Saint Lucia will send five athletes, runner Rosen Daniel, boxer Lyndel Marcellin, swimmers Siona Huxley and Julien Brice, and sailor Stephanie Devaux-Lovell.}

Stephanie is an experienced sailor, a member of the Saint Lucia Yacht Club. She won both the Optimist Class and Laser Class Sailing Championships at the recent 4th Annual Championship Regatta hosted by the St. Lucia Yacht Club in mid-June.

Although Stephanie is only fourteen, she has been sailing for almost seven years, since she was eight years old.

She lists her greatest achievement to date as having competed in the recent North American Optimist Championships in Canada. She placed mid fleet for the majority of the regatta with the exception of some races where she placed in the top 20 of the fleet.

Stephanie loves sailing with a passion because “I feel like no matter what’s going on in my life either good or bad I can turn to sailing and I forget all about everything and just focus on the present where it’s just me, my boat, the wind and the water and nothing else matters. I love the feeling of wind flying across my face, water gliding underneath my boat and feeling one with Mother Nature! Stress Free.”

Her goal in sailing has always been to attend the Olympics and now that she is going to the Youth Olympics in Singapore she definitely feels more confident that she can achieve her dream.

Her goals for the Youth Olympics are to place in the top half of the fleet in every race she participates in, and to come back home having made new friends from all over the world. Stephanie is looking forward to experiencing the cultures from all the different countries, sailing against the best young sailors in the world, and living in the Olympic village.

A student at the Saint Joseph’s Convent Secondary School, Stephanie will enter form four after returning from Singapore. She has become adept at balancing her school work with family life, tennis and sailing, but the heavy schedule leaves little time for a social life.

She is currently training six days each week in preparation for the Youth Olympics, and coach Max Todd has her going through various exercises, from working the start line, to extreme fitness drills, one of which is called the Gutbuster, and a whole variety of drills to work on reaction time, wind awareness etc. Coach Todd has been helping Stephanie to work on analysis of external conditions and factors.

Stephanie will be accompanied on the trip to Singapore by her role-model and mother, Monique Devaux-Lovell, who will act as chaperone for the two female athletes on the team. Team St. Lucia will be headed by Olympian Jamie Peterkin, the Chef de Mission for the Games.

The Games will offer a full programme of cultural and educational activities for the young athletes, incorporating five themes: Olympism and Olympic values, skills development, well-being and healthy lifestyle, social responsibility and expression through digital media.

Twenty six sports will be featured in the Youth Olympics including: Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Fencing, Football, Gymnastics, Handball, Hockey, Judo, Modern Pentathlon, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Triathlon, Volleyball, Weightlifting and Wrestling. It is estimated that 3,600 young athletes will participate in the inaugural Youth Olympics in Singapore.

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