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Elmiran wins soaring title
Elizabeth Schwenkler is first female national champion in American
sailplane racing.
By Molly McCarthy

Star-Gazette
July 28, 2006


An Elmira woman made history Thursday by becoming the first female
national champion in the history of American sailplane racing.

Elizabeth Schwenkler, 28, won the Open Class of the Soaring Society
of America's United States Open and 18 Meter Nationals held in
Hobbs, N.M.

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