Kenneth Andreasen has been involved with Optimist sailing for over 20 years and has coached at over 30 international championships, including 6 World Championships, 3 European Championships and many other regional championships and regattas. Many of the sailors he has coached have gone on to be very successful sailors in many Olympic classes as well. Kenneth is now coaching Zach Railey for his olympic campaign and travels extensively to all the major regattas around the world.

Kenneth sets high standards for the sailors and requires them to sail fair. He also looks at the whole sailor and recognizes that sailing educates the sailors for life.

In addition to coaching, Kenneth has been Principal Race Officer for many Optimist and Laser regattas.

He brings with him a wealth of knowledge about the Optimist and is one of the most experienced coaches around. In addition to the sailing knowledge, Kenneth has a lot of experience with sailing related physical training and psychology. He has headed up very successful programs both in Denmark and USA. Kenneth is originally from Denmark, but has lived in USA for the past 13 years.

Kenneth has degrees in physical training and psychology and has taken many courses and seminars to further educate. Kenneth was the coach of Team X in the USA.

Chris Herrera, DPT, CSCS, CPT is a leader in the sports training and health care field as a certified strength and conditioning specialist and licensed physical therapist working with athletes ranging from eight years to world-class Olympic and professional athletes. Chris is a personal strength and conditioning coach for numerous athletes that are in or have been NCAA basketball, baseball, field hockey, and football along with sailors currently training for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

In addition to working with individual athletes Chris is member of the US Olympic Sailing Performance Enhancement Team (PET) were he focuses on screening and building programs for elite sailors on the Olympic Youth Development Team. He is also the strength and conditioning coach for Gulliver Preparatory High School baseball team. Chris has done numerous lectures/presentations around the US and internationally. Locally he has lectured/presented at numerous Willy Guardiola’s summer basketball camps. He is a consultant to strength and conditioning specialist and coaches throughout the United States and internationally. Chris has written numerous articles in I Beyond Magazine. Chris screens and builds strength programs for sailors in over 7 countries and has been a lecturer/presenter in Spain for the International Optimist Clinic.

Known as an expert in creating and developing specific sport workout regimens, he shaped and expanded his own ACL rehab regimen into a successful recovery and the starting point guard for a Divisional I college basketball team. Chris played for Eastern Illinois from 1999-2003 and competed in the 2002 NCAA Basketball Tournament.