Team Dakota Girl Owner Stephanie Reuer Gets Her Props
November 6, 2008
Team Dakota Girl Places 2nd During the Race To St. Michaels 2008
Stephanie Reuer is one of my favorite people to coach ad sail with. She is talented with the right attitude about winning and improving. She attracts great people to her crew with an effervescent positive attitude and a commitment to becoming better. What more could you ask for?
This month Stephanie was profiled in Spinsheet Magazine as well as Scuttlebutt – a daily sailing newsletter that goes to tens of thousands of sailors in the US and Europe. Way to go Steph!
CHESAPEAKE RACER PROFILE: STEPHANIE REUER (click to download PDF)
Stephanie Reuer, owner of the J/35 Dakota Girl, thinks she might be the only
racing skipper on the Bay who’s sung opera on stage at the Kennedy Center with Placido Domingo. Having grown up in South Dakota catching walleye on the Missouri River with her dad, she feels at home on the water. A career in
international trade and a masters in opera performance led her to the
Washington, DC area, where she launched a career in trade compliance and sang part-time for a decade with the Washington National Opera Company. Still working as a self-proclaimed “regulatory nerd” and having just moved to a new home in Annapolis from Deale, MD, Reuer has traded in her passion for singing for racing.
“I didn’t step foot on a boat until I was 34,” she says, and she bought her first boat the next year. “I fell completely in love with it.” That she didn’t start racing until six years later is, “Proof that life does begin at 40.” After crewing for several years and racing her own PHRF boats, she listened to the gentle nudging of her boyfriend Randy Bruscup on the benefits of one-design racing and eventually chose the J/35 for the affordability, the competitive fleet, and the support of the class. Not having a boat mortgage has enabled her to hire professional coaches and ramp up her team more quickly. She says, “We have received a lot of advice, coaching, and moral support over the last two years from each and every J/35 program, especially from the team leaders: Maggie, Windependent, Aunt Jean, Medicine Man, and others.”
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