Bern Noack
- Bern is the Harvard Assistant Sailing Coach. He started teaching children how to sail at the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club 25 years ago. Bern has been teaching beginners to sail ever since.
- Collegiate Coach for 20 years. Coached more than 30 All-Americans, 4 College Sailors of the Year. His teams have won 9 separate ICSA (Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association) Championships and 5 Fowle Trophies for the best performance by a team in the ICSA Championships.
- Single-handed coach for the US Sailing Elite Youth Development Team and the Under 18 and Under 23 US Sailing Team from 2007 to 2009.
- Graduated from Yale University and was Commodore of the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club.
- Bern and his wife Riza are the parents of two boys, Paco, 10 years old, and Nico, 8 years old.
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Alma Lafler
- Alma is a junior and varsity sailor at Harvard who grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- At Harvard she is a starting crew on the sailing team and helped sail the Crimson to 4th at the New England Championship and a berth in the 2011 National Championship in Oregon.
- She attended Cambridge-Rindge and Latin High School where she was a skipper on the sailing team and was named MVP of the sailing team her junior year. She also participated in crew.
- Last summer Alma taught the CSA summer campers and adult classes. She also monitored the Harvard Sailing Center and tutored at the MATCH Charter Public School in Boston.
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