Betty Cook
Betty Cook (1923-1990) was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer. She won 17 races, 2 world championships (1977 and 1979), and three time American Power Boat Association US champion (1978, 1979, 1981).[1] She was the first woman to win the powerboat world championship (1977) in what had been traditionally a male-only sport.[2]
Notes
- ^ "Betty Cook?". Offshoreonly.com. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ^ Bob Ottum (1980-08-04). "Betty Cook, the only woman driver in the machismo world - 08.04.80 - SI Vault". Vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
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