ASA has selected the Outstanding Instructors of the Year for 2017. Of all the ASA instructors who were active and eligible in 2017, the top 32 are listed below, representing 31 different locations across 13 states, and 3 countries. The process by which these instructors were determined was completely objective, derived by a formula that weighs the number of student surveys generated, the number of completed surveys actually submitted, and the average instructor score across all submitted surveys with 4.00 as the highest possible average score.
Randolph Altermatt Francois Asselin Anderson Barnes Yonatan Bresler James Cook Doran Cushing Richard Dawson John Drake Chuck Hashbarger Kyle Hirsh Ken Hogrefe Jon Jones James King Stanley Lander William Lemex Chris Lower | Christopher May Jaye Melanson Mark Merritt Gerald Miller Duane Moran Loren Newton Robert Portman Michael Rice James Slater Lloyd Tracy Spinney Clint Sutter Rob Swain, Jr. Richard Van Loon Arno Von Waltsleben Jennifer Wirth Elliot Zimmerman |
ASA is extremely proud of its certified instructors who are committed to provide excellence in sailing instruction, and we extend our congratulations to the 32 instructors on this list who have achieved an outstanding commendation for 2017. Very well done, and we thank you. Keep up the great work!
In future, ASA plans to attach the student survey to the electronic version of each ASA examination to increase the yield of respondents to a much higher level.
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Jaye was my first instructor…. she is outstanding. After all these years, we are still friends.
Jaye Melanson is a wonderful instructor! We had a great experience under her tutelage.
Rob, where in RI is Little Compton? I need lessons?