NICOLE STOVELL
SCHOOL
Royal Hospital School, UK
AGE
17 Years Old
SPORT
Sailing
CLUB
Royal Bermuda Yacht Club
CLASS OF BOAT
Laser Radial (ILCA 6) Youth Sailor
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH EXPERIENCE
UKLA Qualifier 3 (ILCA 6)
34th Overall, 3rd Female U19
UKLA Qualifier 1 (ILCA 6)
33rd Overall, 2nd Female U19
WS Youth World Championships 2021(ILCA 6 female)
32nd Overall
ILCA North Americans 2021 (ILCA 6)
33rd Overall, 2nd Female U18
Miami Sailing Week 2021 (ILCA 6)
15th Overall
Bermuda Laser Nationals 2020 (ILCA 6)
7th Overall
Bermuda Laser Nationals 2019 (ILCA 4)
Top Female Finisher, 1st Bermudian, 2nd Overall
Mar Del Plata International Yachting Week 2020
Optimist - Gold fleet
Bermuda Optimist Nationals 2019
Top Female Finisher, 3rd Bermudian, 14th Overall
IODA North Americans 2019
Silver fleet
IODA Worlds 2019
5th in Emerald Fleet
Junior Gold Cup 2019
21st Overall
IODA South Americans 2019
127 Overall
Mar Del Plata International Yachting Week 2019
Silver fleet
German Optimist Nationals 2018
Bronze fleet
USODA Midwinter Qualifiers 2018
Silver fleet
Bermuda Optimist Nationals (2018)
19th Overall
Junior Gold Cup 2018
24th Overall
IODA South Americans 2018
Silver fleet
Orange Bowl 2017
Bronze fleet
IODA North Americans 2017
Bronze fleet
SPORTS ACHIEVEMENTS
2019 Bermuda National Optimist Championship
1st Female
1st Bermudian Female
3rd Bermudian
Nomination for Denton Hurdle Award Qualification for multiple World Championships (as shown in results sheet)
FAVORITE ATHLETE
Allyson Felix
SPORTS GOAL
To do well in Youth competitions (U19). Right now I seem to sit mid- fleet in all the competitions I attend, so I am working on achieving better results. My goal is to see consistent top ten results in regattas I attend in the future. It will take a lot of work, and I age out of the Youth class at the end of next year (2023), but I have confidence that that is enough time for me to put in the right efforts and see results. I will continue to participate in youth events as that is my focus and I hope to see improvement in my performance in the next year, reaching my goal of top ten results before I age out. When I age out, that will be the time I can focus on my goals for U-21 events, but for now this is my aspiration.
CAREER ASPIRATION
I have hopes of being a psychiatrist in the future. I love sciences and am very intrigued by psychology and behavior. I also want a career that helps people, because that is some- thing I love to do. Those that need the most help are those that don’t know it, and mental illness can sometimes be very difficult to recognize. That’s why medicine, especially the field of psychiatry, is interesting to me. Psychiatry is different from general medicine because it is more intricate and complex. There is never a simple fix, every person’s mind is different from another and it takes time and communication to solve problems in this field. It is a challenging profession and it is something I think I would absolutely love.
FAVORITE HOBBIES
Sailing is what I do in the majority of my free time. Whenever one of my friends asks me why I’m not free, the usual answer is that I have sailing. My focus is ILCA 6 sailing, in which I train regularly and sail competitively, but I sail other boats as well just for fun. I have sailed waszps, which are a blast, because foiling can be so much fun. I have also done fitted dinghy sailing and IOD sailing, which I enjoy because there is a crew of six in the one boat and the teamwork and communication is something I like. I love team racing as well, where multiple boats sail on the same team, racing other boats, using rules and tactics to put the other team behind and win. That is probably the most competitive, as the courses are quite small and there is a lot of yelling going on, but I love it because it takes your head out of the boat to focus on those around you more. Also it can get quite chaotic and I just have a lot of fun in that.