UCI sailors on Team USA

Four former UC Irvine sailors will participate at the Pan American

Games, which started Friday and run through Aug. 17, in Santo

Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Former Anteaters Lanee Bulter and Peter Wells (boardsailing), Lisa

Griffith (snipes) and Geoff Becker (assistant coach) will be

representing the U.S.

Butler, a 1993 graduate in fine arts, is making her fourth

appearance in the Pan Am Games and was elected by her fellow sailors

as the captain of the Pan American team. A three-time Pan Am Games

medallist in the women’s boardsailing event, Butler is also a

three-time Olympian.

She won the gold in 1991, and ’99 and the bronze in ’95 in the Pan

Am Games.

Wells, a 1996 graduate in political science, has been a member of

the U.S. sailing team for six years, finishing third at the 2000

Olympic team trials in the mistral class. He has been the top-ranked

men’s boardsailor in the country for the last three years. Wells was

a three-time Intercollegiate Sailing Association All-American while

at UCI.

Griffith, a 1992 graduate in economics, was an ICSA All-American

crew for the Anteaters in 1992. She won the Colonial Cup in June with

partner Henry Filter.

Becker, a 1993 graduate in social sciences, will serve as an

assistant coach for the Pan Am team. He was a two-time ICSA

All-American at UCI.