"For Immediate Release"
TMC Racing Featured in Latitude 38 Again
Sustaining Success:
Qualifying for the World Championships
in
three of the last four years!
By winning the San Francisco J/24 Fleet 17 2008
Championship
Series we’ve qualified for the 2009 World
Championships in
Annapolis, MD in the first week of May.
Over
the eight (8)
months that we raced last year we had
a
phenomenal series as
we ended up with twenty-seven
(27)
first, twelve (12) second
and two (2) third place
finishes in the
forty-one (41) race series.
As it stands our local Fleet 17 record is as follows:
2004 – Fleet 17 Championship – 2 nd Place
“Rookie of the Year” Award
2005 – “Sportsmanship of the Year” Award
2006 – Fleet 17 Season Champion
2007 – Fleet 17 Season Championship – 2nd Place
2008 – Fleet 17 Season Champion
In fact this is the third (3 rd) time we’ve qualified for the
Worlds
in the last four (4) years. We won the 2005
Western Regional
Championships in Marina del Rey
which qualified us for the
2006 World Championships
in Melbourne , Australia . Our
twenty-fifth (25th) place
finish in the 2006 National
Championships in Galveston
Bay qualified us for the 2007
World Championships in
Puerto Vallarta , Mexico .
As we are preparing to leave for Annapolis it provides an
opportunity to reflect back on all the regattas we’ve
sailed, all
the success we’ve had and the great many
friends we’ve made
along the way. Most important of al
l is how our group has
evolved, grown and matured into
a top-flight team – dedicated,
enthusiastic, and inspired!
Over time we’ve seen five (5) “Key Factors for Success”
that
continue to play out and they are:
1. The Quality of the people you choose to hang-out
with is
directly proportional to the quality of your life
experience! Find,
recruit and retain the smartest and
very best people you can -
as they will continue to
deliver results vastly beyond your
expectations.
2. Relationships Determine Results – to be in
relationship with
someone you have to work together,
break bread together and
recreate together. It is
imperative that to get the very best
effort
and results
from your people that you know them
personally –
their
families, their careers and their lives. It is
through this
process that real trust is developed, which is the
foundation for
success.
3. Success breeds more success. Success is built over
time by
setting appropriate stretch goals and achieving
them over and
over again. Hence, the comment that it is
not the destination
that is important but the journey is
right on point. Each of the
successive small wins builds
competence, confidence and the
expectation of more
success. Each of these steps roll-up to
greater overall
success for the team!
4. Celebrate the Wins! It is an integral part of team
success to
recognize each person, their contribution
and their uniqueness!
An open “Round Table
Appreciation” is an extremely effective
way for the
whole team to share in this experience. The
sub-text
here is to praise publicly and provide feedback
privately. As we
always coach our folks – good news on
Fridays and bad news
on Mondays.
5. Training is the bow that wraps up the whole package!
Organize and deliver the very best training that money
can buy
as it is the investment that will return dividends
time and time
again. Training is the key to retaining the
best people you
have,
and by making them better at
what they do, it is what
sustains
the highest level of
success.
As we move forward, TMC Racing will be one of eighty
one (81)
teams from eighteen countries that will compete
in the
2009 J/24
World Championships in Annapolis,
MD.
We’re
excited to be
going back to the Worlds again
as we’re better
trained,
prepared and motivated than
ever before and have
high
expectations about how
well we’re going to do this time
around!
As I keep
telling the team, “Always remember that
every dog
has
his day in the sun!”
Follow our progress as we travel to the East Coast, race
in the
Annapolis NOOD Regatta on April 24th – 26th
and then go
on
to the World Championship Regatta
May 4th – 8th. We’ll
be
posting updates!
