New Australian Olympic ILCA 6 and 7 Coaching Line Up
The Australian Sailing Team made changes to their coaching line up for the Paris 2024 campaign.
The team is under recently appointed High Performance Director Iain Brambell OLY.
Carolijn Brouwer and Ben Walkemeyer will join forces to coach the ILCA 6 squad.
Brouwer, the new National ILCA 6 coach, represented the Netherlands and Belgium at three Olympic Games in three different classes. Most recently she has been coaching the Australian Sailing Futures Program Nacra 17 squad.
Brouwer said “I feel really strongly about developing a strong squad culture that not only helps the girls advance their skills on the water, but also helps them grow as people off the water.”
WAIS coach Walkemeyer has been appointed as the Assistant National ILCA 6 coach. He was one of four sailing coaches included in the most recent AIS Elevate Athlete2Coach program, in-part for his work with the Australian Sailing Futures Program ILCA 6 squad.
Spaniard Rafa Trujillo who coached Jake Lilley to a 7th place finish in the Finn class at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is the new National ILCA 7 coach. The role was vacated after three-time Olympic gold medal winning coach Michael Blackburn was appointed as Australian Sailing Technical Director last year.
The full Olympic class coaching line up is Here.