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Seal Beach Yacht Club Junior Sailing Coaches
 Amanda Buda is returning to the SLBYC Coaching Staff as Head Coach. This is her third year with SLBYC. She attended Arcadia High School from grades 9 to 11 then transferred to Los Alamitos High School for her senior year. She was a member of the band for both schools playing in the percussion section on marimba. She is an outstanding musician. She also played on the girls lacrosse team at Los Alamitos. She has sailed for SLBYC for 2 years both in sabots and Lasers. She placed 3 rd in the Laser Club Champs and 2 nd in the 2006 Sea Festival Regatta. In the fall she will most likely attend CSULB and begin to study music or business. (or both).
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 Kevin Bergeron is coaching part time for his first year. He has been sailing since he was two weeks old. His whole life he grew up sailing on his grandfather's Catalina 42. When he was thirteen he learned how to sail a Capri 14.2 at a Boy Scout camp in Catalina. The next year he joined the Seal Beach Yacht Club Junior Sailing Team and learned how to sail a sabot. His second year of sailing with Seal Beach Y.C. he got First place in the Scuba Duba Cup for sabots and for lasers. In the summer of 2007 he held his title in the club's laser cup and also got 2nd place in Beach to Bay, 2nd in place Sea Festival, and 2nd place in Corinthian Cup in a laser. Aside from racing, he also volunteers to help coach the morning session of beginning sailors. He hopes that this coming year we will continue to expand our program and complete our goals.
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Taylor Leach is also joining us part time for his second year. He is an eleventh grader currently attending Lakewood High School as a merit scholar. He has been in the juniors program since 2002, and is on the perpetual trophy. He enjoys creating films and documentaries, one that was about the juniors program at SBYC. He has won 15 awards for his film making and has been a speaker many times at film festivals all through the state of California and has been featured in the Press Telegram twice and the Orange County Register once for his films. Taylor is an active member of his Boy Scout troop and venture crew and holds the position on Jr. Assistant Scout Master. He achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest award in scouting, in 2006. He’s been featured in the Press Telegram twice and the Orange County Register once. In his spare time, he enjoys skateboarding and driving his 1969 VW bus.
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