Briana Provancha

Briana Provancha (born April 25, 1989) is a United States Olympic sailing contestant.

Briana Provancha
Personal information
Full nameBriana Provancha
Nationality United States
Born (1989-04-24) April 24, 1989
San Diego, California, United
States
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es)Dinghy
College team Boston College

Life

Provancha was born in San Diego in 1989. At the age of eight she had begun sailing. She attended Point Loma High School and by the age of 16 she had been in several international competitions.[1] She won the ICSA Coed Dinghy National Championship in 2010 with the Boston College sailing team, where she also sailed with Annie Haeger and they both graduated in 2012.[2] Provancha's degree was in marketing.[3]

She and Haeger won their place at the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Palma de Mallorca which continued their dominance over the previous three years.[2]

She and Haeger appeared in the Women's 470 event in the 2016 Summer Olympics.[4]

In 2019 she was elected and became the Sailor Athlete Director on the board of US Sailing.[3]

References
  1. Point Loma High grad sailing to Rio as an Olympian, Lainie Fraser, SDNews, Retrieved August 6, 2016
  2. Haeger and Provancha headed to Olympics, April 10, 2016, bceagles.com, Retrieved August 6, 2016
  3. Fish, Jake (November 14, 2019). "Briana Provancha Elected to US Sailing's Board as Sailor Athlete Director". US Sailing. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  4. Briana Provancha, Retrieved August 6, 2016
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