Peter Barron, a 14-year-old eighth grader at the East Hampton Middle School, is about to launch an international sailing career, having been picked to represent the United States in the Optimist class.

    At seven feet, nine inches, Optimists, the young sailor said during a recent conversation at The Star, were “the smallest of the competitive boats, but also one of the most widely sailed. Fifty-five different countries sail them. They’ve been around since 1947 and have been raced since 1960. Soapbox derby cars inspired the design. We call it the Bathtub. It’s the largest fleet — over 20,000 sail numbers — in the U.S. Some of the top sailors in the world . . . Olympians, America’s Cup sailors . . . come out of this class. It’s what you start on. Optimist sailors say you’re optimistic if you think you can go very fast in one.”

    And yet, Peter said that in a recent Florida event in winds up to 30 miles per hour, and with five-foot waves in the Gulf, “a girl got on top of a wave and was hydroplaning at about 18 miles per hour. . . . I love the wind. The faster you go the more fun it is.”

    “If you watch the kids I sail with [on team Sail Strong] you’ll be astonished at how quickly they turn and react. . . . When people think of sailing, they think of someone sitting back and enjoying the day on a yacht, but sailing is multidimensional. One, you’ve got to be in great physical shape, with a strong core and arms. Two, it’s a one-person boat, so you’re on your own, with no one to help. Three, you have to know the rules, which are many. The rule book is a half-inch thick. It’s one of the last sports with real sportsmanship . . . you’re held accountable for your actions, it’s self-policing, which is rare in sports nowadays. For instance, if you’re on a starboard tack [with the wind coming over the right side of the bow] you have the right of way over someone on a port tack [with the wind over the left side]. The port boat has to avoid. If the boat on the starboard tack has to move, the offender has to do two full spins, 720 degrees.”

    Peter said he got his start in sailing at the Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett, at around the age of 7 or 8, and though his father, Robert, had competed at the top of the sport internationally, he had not pushed him.

    “I’ve thanked him for not pushing me,” Peter said. “He pushed me to do well in school, but not in any sports, and because of that I’ve wanted to do sports. Sailing is what I want to do. I’ve seen kids whose mothers and fathers have pushed them so hard. I used to ski race, and I’ve seen it happen there. You can burn out if you do too much of one thing, even if it’s your favorite thing. A burning desire can’t be grafted on by others — it has to come from you.”

    His parents, however, have been supportive, and probably, he said, have circled the globe with him at least once, as it were, in driving far afield to and from sailing practices and competitions — a fact with which the parents of ambitious East Hampton athletes past and present can relate.

    As the result of good finishes in recent team trials near Milwaukee, Peter will compete for the U.S. in a weeklong regatta in Belgium in mid-July. Those who finished in the top five in Wisconsin are to compete in the world championships at Lake Garda in Italy. So, his interviewer said, he still has something to shoot for.

    “It’s been a goal of mine to go to an international event,” he said. “This is my first one. It’s the second international regatta I’ve qualified for. I wanted to go to a regatta at Lake Garda in March, but I didn’t. There was too much of a conflict with school. We [he and his Sail Strong teammates] have to balance our sailing with our education. When we get off the water we clean our boats and go to a hotel room and do our homework. . . . I take honors courses and have been keeping up my grades.”

    “On the JetBlue flight back from the Mid Winter’s team race near New Orleans, the night of the Super Bowl, the biggest night in sports in the United States, we turned off our screens and did our homework! That ought to show you how dedicated we are. Even the 10-year-olds are driven.”

    He had other interests in addition to sailing, Peter added. “Since I’ve been little I’ve had an awareness of the fact that we’re not doing the best for our planet. I’ve been wanting to design a nonpolluting car since I was 3. I’ve wanted to sail in college since I’ve been 4, and to go on from there to start my own company having something to do with the environment.”

    In parting, Peter said, “Whatever happens, I know sailing will help me as I go further in life. My parents won’t always be there. If they had pushed me I wouldn’t have known what to do when on my own. You don’t need to be pushed to become self-reliant.”

   The U.S. Women’s Open is to be played at the Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton this week, beginning today, and among those listed as players to watch in Newsday’s preview Tuesday were eight South Koreans, one of whom, the 16-year-old Lydia Ko, the U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, lives in New Zealand.

    In the past nine years, beginning with Se Ri Pak in 1998, South Korean golfers have won the U.S. Open six times. They’ve taken the last four out of five — Inbee Park in 2008, Eun-Hee Ji in ’09, So Yeon Ryu in ’11, and Na Yeon Choi, whose nickname is NYC, last year.

    When Newsday’s golf writer Mark Herrmann (who got his start at The Southampton Press) recently asked the world’s number-one, Inbee Park, who’s won the last two majors (Asian-born women have won the last nine majors), to account for the Korean women’s dominance, she said, with a laugh, “I think maybe we have dominant blood.”

    The hometown heroine, as it were, is Annie Park, the 18-year-old amateur from Levittown who won Nassau County’s boys championship last year before enrolling at the University of Southern California, whose team she led to a National Collegiate Athletic Association championship this spring, winning the individual title for herself.

    Becky McDaid, a former U.S.C. star who now is an assistant pro at Friar’s Head in Riverhead, told Herrmann that she thought Park had “a shot to win it.”

    She will have one of Sebonack’s caddies, Joe Carsons, carrying her bag. He is expected to be very helpful when it comes to playing the greens.

    The 6,796-yard links-type course, designed by Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak, is only seven years old, but Mike Pascucci, the club’s owner, has said that terrain-wise things were left pretty much as they have always been.

    “It’s a beautiful course,” said John Kernell, this writer’s golf expert, who played Sebonack with U.S.G.A. officials on Media Day. “Its undulating greens are its defense. There’s no rough, no thick grass, unless you hit it really bad.”

    “The greens should be reading 11 and a half to 12 feet on the Stimpmeter, which is fast. And then there’s the wind. If it blows during the tournament it will definitely affect the scoring. If it’s calm, the top group could finish at 6 to 12-under for the four rounds. If it’s windy, though, there might not be anyone under par. It’s much like Shinnecock [one of Sebonack’s neighbors, as is National] in that respect.”

    Kernell added that the tickets — $125 for the entire week, which began with practice rounds Monday — were very reasonably priced. “The tournament’s being played at an exclusive club that most people would never be able to go to otherwise, and the quality of golf will be first-class.”

    First-round play began at 6:45 this morning. Parking is on Magee Street, off Route 27, past the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. Spectators will be shuttled to and from the course. Tickets can be had online through 2013uswomensopen. com. The tournament will be televised on ESPN from 3 to 7 p.m. today and tomorrow, and on Cablevision’s Channel 4 Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m.

June 9, 1988

    This year’s Shelter Island 10K field proved to be the deepest the race has ever attracted. Seventeen runners broke 31 minutes, a 5-minute-per-mile pace.

    . . . Notable performances by local runners included Kevin Barry’s 32:27, good for 30th place, and Cheryl Bednosky’s 39:06, like Barry’s a personal best. Bednosky was the 16th woman, despite the fact she had bronchitis. She and Barry received the “top East Ender” awards. Tim Fitzpatrick, also of Shelter Island, ran a 33:37, his best time in the distance by three minutes. He was 40th.

June 16, 1988

    A showdown between Marders and the Town Police Benevolent Association in the National Division of the East Hampton Town Little League last Thursday was decided in Marders’ favor, 6-5, as an infield error in the bottom of the sixth inning allowed the winning run to score from second base.

    The game, which virtually decided the division’s pennant-winner, was a seesaw affair the whole way. Marders got a run in the bottom of the first inning; the Town PBA went up 2-1 in the top of the third. In the bottom half, Marders’ tall left-handed pitcher, Ross Gload, hit what spectators said was one of the longest home runs they’ve seen in local Little League play, over the center field fence, to tie the score at 3-3.

    Oceans, a restaurant in Amagansett, and Kathy Strandberg, East Hampton High School’s volleyball coach, will oversee a series of eight beach volleyball tournaments this summer — four at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach and four in East Quogue.

    Eben Jones, 27, of Ossining, N.Y., and Judie Hallwood, also 27, of New York City, in their first tries were winners Saturday at the Montauk Triathlon. Jones set a course record of 2 hours, 4 minutes, and 52 seconds, breaking the 2:07:11 set last year by Jim Cutrone of Brooklyn.

    . . . A former Dartmouth University swimmer, Jones, who now works in the loan department of Manufacturers Hanover, took command quickly, winning the one-mile swim in 17:24. His was the fastest split in the 28-mile bicycle leg too, at 1:04:24, also a course record. He finished about three minutes ahead of the runner-up, Jim Bolster, the Columbia University varsity swimming coach.

    The winner said he had not been able to walk five days before the race as a result of having “blown [his] legs out” in the Oxford, Md., triathlon on June 4. Oxford’s distances were 2 miles for the swim, 55 for the bike, and 15 for the run. Jones finished fifth there, qualifying for the Ironman triathlon in Hawaii.

    Michael Sarlo and Suzie O’Conor, East Hampton High School seniors, were the varsity coaches’ picks to receive the Paul Yuska award, the top one presented at last Thursday night’s athletic awards dinner, during which more than 200 students participating in varsity sports were honored.

    Sarlo, who lettered three years in basketball and baseball, and two in football, recently completed an outstanding baseball season during which he set a school record for runs batted in, 44, and was named to the all-county team. O’Conor, who captained the girls tennis, basketball, and softball teams, lettered two years in those sports.

June 30, 1988

    The Masons defeated Marders on Monday and Tuesday nights to win the East Hampton Town Little League’s “world series.” It was the second time in three years that the Masons had captured the championship.

    Justin Geehreng pitched the American Division pennant-winner to a 4-1 victory over the National Division champion at Maidstone Park on Monday, and the next night, at Lions field in East Hampton, Guy Ficeto went all the way as the Masons edged Marders 1-0, thanks to a first-inning run.

    . . . In Monday’s game Geehreng’s only miscue was a fourth-inning changeup that Ross Gload launched skyward into a pine tree about 300 feet from home plate.

    To Marders fans, who let out a cry, Gload’s clout appeared to be a two-run home run, but a ground rule, outlined beforehand, limited the left-handed slugger to a double. Denis Dunn Jr., who had preceded Gload with a single, the first hit of the game off Geehreng, was held up at third. Then Geehreng bore down, limiting Marders to one run on a fielder’s choice.

    Paul Annacone’s stay at Wimbledon ended Tuesday with a straight-set loss to Boris Becker, the sixth seed and two-time champion, in the round of 16. It was the best Wimbledon the East Hampton-reared tennis professional has enjoyed since his debut on the circuit in 1984 when he reached the quarterfinals.

Thursday, June 27

GOLF, U.S. Women’s Open, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, from 6:45 a.m.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL, opening night with informal play, Gurney’s Inn, Montauk, 6 p.m.

Friday, June 28

GOLF, U.S. Women’s Open, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, from 6:45 a.m.

Saturday, June 29

GOLF, U.S. Women’s Open, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, from 6:45 a.m.

RUNNING, Miracle Mile, Neighborhood Road, Mastic Beach, 9 a.m.

RIDING, Stony Hill Stables Foundation benefit cocktail party, with dressage exhibition and pony drill team performance, 268 Town Lane, Amagansett, 6-8 p.m.

Sunday, June 30

GOLF, U.S. Women’s Open, final round, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, from 6:45 a.m.

Wednesday, July 3

MEN’S SOCCER,  7-on-7 league, Maidstone Market vs. the Hideaway, 6:30 p.m.; F.C. Tuxpan vs. Hampton F.C.-Bill Miller, 7:25, and Tortorella Pools vs. Bateman Painting, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

   Boston, and the fatal terror attack there in April, was very much on everyone’s minds leading up to the 34th Shelter Island Overcoming Obstacles 10K Saturday, and consequently certain precautions, such as prohibiting backpacks and providing clear plastic bags for the collection of refuse at the start and finish lines rather than metal bins, were taken, but all, the race’s director, Mary Ellen Adipietro, said, went smoothly.

    “The weather was beautiful — hot, but not humid,” said Cliff Clark, the very popular road race’s founder. “At least I didn’t hear any of the runners complain of humidity.”

    The race committee was not complaining either, Adipietro said, that no records were broken this year, meaning that more money, rather than being paid out in bonuses, would go to the beneficiaries — the 10K Community Fund, the Timothy Hill Children’s Ranch, a farm home in Riverhead for troubled boys, East End Hospice, and Reach Within, the latter an organization that helps children in Grenada.

    Once again, the chief participants were Bill Rodgers, who sold and signed numerous copies of his autobiography, “Marathon Man,” and Joan Benoit Samuelson, who ran a 2:50 at Boston this year, thus achieving her goal of finishing within 30 minutes of her record 2:22, which she did there 30 years ago.

    The race director’s husband, Dr. Frank Adipietro, interviewed Samuelson and Rodgers over radio station WLNG the day before. “Definitely we touched on Boston, no question,” he said. “We spent about a half-hour on that. . . . Thankfully, everything really came together for us on race day. It’s a big day for Shelter Island, you know. Everything worked out beautifully, it was all good.”

    Ayele Megersa Feyisa, 25, a native of Ethiopia who lives now in New York City, was the winner, in 28 minutes and 59 seconds, 22 seconds shy of Simon Ndirangu’s record, which was set last year.

    It’s not often — certainly not in recent years — that an American tops the female division at Shelter Island, but this time Katie Di Camillo, 26, of Providence, R.I., did, in 34:19. She was ninth over all.

    Samuelson and Rodgers served as pacers — Samuelson for those wanting to run the rolling 6.2-mile course in about 40 minutes, and Rodgers for those wanting to do it in around 50.

    Presumably, Chris Reich, East Hampton High’s cross-country and boys track coach, was in that group, for he crossed the line in 39:58, in 38th place among the 972 finishers. Samuelson crossed the line in 40:39 with 11-year-old Liam Adipietro, who was doing the 5K. “It was awfully nice of her to do that,” Mary Ellen Adipietro said later. “Liam was trying to beat a classmate of his.”

    Reich was bested by one of his standout long-distance runners, the 15-year-old Erik Engstrom, who was 28th in 38:23. Clark, who in 1972 competed in the Olympic (3,000-meter) steeplechase trials, is pleased to know that Engstrom began competing in that event this year as a freshman, placing 12th in the county. “Kevin [Barry] calls him ‘Little Pre,’ for Steve Prefontaine,” said Clark.

    Chris Koegel, 29, a cousin of the late Lt. Joseph Theinert, for whom Shelter Island’s last mile is named, placed 15th, in 36:10.

    Local place-winners included Jacqueline McGarvey, 32, of East Hampton, the female 30-34 division’s runner-up; Jennifer Cave, 37, of Sag Harbor, who topped the female 35-39 division; Jason Kaplan, 44, of Montauk, who won among the 40-44 men; Fiona Moore, 42, of East Hampton, who won among the 40-44 women; Sarah Stenn, 46, of Sagaponack, the first woman in the 45-49 division; John Nelson, 55, of Bridgehampton, second in the men’s 55-59 group; Jeff Yennie, 64, of Sag Harbor, who was the second 60-to-64-year-old man, and Blaire Stauffer, 80, of Sag Harbor, who topped the 75-to-99-year-old men, in 1:01.29.

    In writing in The Shelter Island Reporter’s pre-race supplement, Adipietro, who was in the grandstands at Boston’s finish line when the bomb planted there went off, said near the end of her article, “One thing I know about our running community is that it takes its heart from the organizers, the runners, volunteers, police, firemen, medical personnel, and mostly from our spectators. We will never be stopped. Our spirit will never be broken. I say a prayer for all our Boston friends and wish that all future runs be safe and fulfilling and always filled with great stories. . . .”

   It was a celebratory week here soccer-wise, highlighted by the Under-16 Hurricanes’ Long Island Cup championship win Saturday, a first, and their 2-0 shutout of Auburndale-Bayside Sunday that crowned an undefeated Long Island Junior Soccer League Division 1 season.

    The Hurricanes, coached by Don McGovern, who helps Rich King with East Hampton High’s powerful program — the Bonackers have made it to the county finals in three of the past four years and are two-time defending county champions — thus finished the travel team spring season with a 13-0-1 record.

    The tie was with the aforementioned Auburndale-Bayside. In Sunday’s game that assured the Hurricanes the D-1 championship, Nick West, a star Bonac midfielder-forward, and Jack Fitzpatrick, the team’s lone representative from Sag Harbor, scored the goals.

    In Saturday’s 3-1 win in the Long Island Cup tourney’s final, West scored twice and Camilo Godoy once.

    “It’s a great group of kids,” said McGovern, who, before he became King’s assistant, coached Pierson’s varsity for a number of years. “They only conceded 4 goals all season and scored around 34. . . . The season’s over now, but they’ll continue to practice on their own to get ready for the fall.”

    Further evidence of East Hampton’s success in soccer was provided at Friday’s inaugural alumni game, which drew more than 30 players, who did battle on the high school’s turf field.

    The large turnout was a pleasant surprise for King and McGovern and their predecessor, Jim Stewart, who got a big laugh when he said anyone who’d forgotten to turn in his high school soccer jersey “can do so now.”

    The graduation dates of the alums ranged from 1997 (Alex Posada, who, along with the late John Villaplana, led East Hampton’s first notable team) to the present.

    Names on the sign-up sheet, besides Posada’s, included Brandon West (a national-champion goalie at Messiah College), Eddie Lopez (a former national-champion junior college player at Briarcliffe), Angel Garces, Danny Munoz, Alex Serna, Juan Olvera, Jefferson Ramirez, Carlos Chacon, Mattheu Ramirez, J.C. Barrientos, Esteban Aguilar, Ben McCarron, Brian Rojas, Erik Lopez, Erick Valdes, Efrain Valderrama, Tyler deVries-Wallace, Esteban Vargas, Andy Gonzalez, Rafael Zeledon, John Romero, Seth Barrows, Andy Rigby (a teammate of Posada’s in 1997), Daniel Londono, Duvan Castro, Rodolfo Marin, Alejandro Bolanos, Milton Farez, Denis Espana, Jerjes Alban, Camilo Ariza, Stiven Orrego, and Diego Palomo.

    “Coach Stewart and I have talked about this for a couple of years — we want the alumni to get more involved in the program,” said King, “and now that we know there’s such a strong interest, we’ll become more organized in the coming years and make it more of a community event, with predetermined teams, and food, and a big crowd of spectators. We’ll rely on you to spread the word.”

    “We’re also doing this as a fund-raiser,” the head coach continued. “There are a lot of budget issues at the moment — we have to buy our own balls and socks, for instance — and so we’re asking that each of you donate $25 to the program. . . . We’re looking to go upstate. Our goal is to win a state championship. We’ve got some exciting nonleague games lined up this year, one at St. Anthony’s, the third-ranked team in the United States, on Sept. 21.”

    King and McGovern’s soccer camp for youngsters ages 5 through 13 was to have begun Monday afternoon and to have ended today. McGovern said before the alumni game began that they were expecting “anywhere from 60 to 90 kids.”

   The future of tennis is in good hands if the attendance at the East Hampton Indoor/Outdoor Tennis Club’s “festival” for kids was any indication.

    As their parents looked on through the club’s glassed-in lounge Saturday, some 60 to 70 youngsters — the youngest being 3 years old, the eldest being 10 — had a lot of fun while being eased into the game by two of the club’s young pros, Vanessa Heroux, a former National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics doubles national champion, and Kevin Cretella, who played with the managing partner Scott Rubenstein’s son Brian on James Madison University’s team.

    Heroux, who is a native of Montreal, and Cretella hadn’t expected such an overwhelming turnout, but, with the help of some of the club’s other pros, were able to manage.

    “We’ll be using the U.S.T.A.’s 10-and-under format in our kids’ program this summer, with everything — nets, rackets, balls — scaled to their size and speed, but today,” Heroux added, as legions of “dodgeball” teams dashed toward each other from the opposite baselines to retrieve and hurl soft tennis balls across the net, “is all about having fun. . . . The younger they start, the better. The kids are our future.”

    The Hampton Racquet Club, which is on Buckskill Road, not far away from E.H.I.T., is to have its Kids Day this Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a good-size turnout is expected there as well, for John Graham, who, with his sister, Monica, revived the former Green Hollow club last year, is a highly regarded teacher of children.

    In a conversation the other day, Graham said he wants to “make this place a family club again, which is the way I grew up, in a family-oriented club up the Island where you had 12-year-olds hitting with 60-year-olds.”

    “Tactical tennis will be emphasized. We want them to play, but we also want them to know how to play, and to reinforce that, we’ll use chess for strategy, golf for eye-hand coordination, yoga for calming the mind . . . we’ll have an art program too, even a learning garden.”

    Kids from the age of 5, he said, “will play matches . . . my hope is that we can develop a junior tournament circuit among the clubs here. . . . I also want to link what we do with local charities. Our main ones are Fighting Chance, the East Hampton Day Care Learning Center, the Animal Rescue Fund, the Wounded Warrior Project, and the Retreat. When you sign up for a package of lessons, for instance, some of that money can be donated to a charity. It’s a way of giving back to the community, of bringing the community together.”

    “I want the club to be a centerpiece of play and learning,” Graham said in parting. “I want to combine the best tennis has to offer with summer experiences that last a lifetime. . . . My passion is tennis, my love is kids.”

    Going into last night’s games at East Hampton’s Herrick Park, Hampton F.C.-Bill Miller led the Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer league with a 5-2-0 mark, though the Hideaway, thanks to a 3-1 upset of perennial-champion Maidstone Market on June 12, was right behind, at 4-2-1.

    The Market, whose entry in an 11-on-11 league at Calverton is undefeated, was in third place, along with Tortorella Pools, each with 4-3-0 marks. Tuxpan, which played Bill Miller tough in a 1-0 loss on the 12th, was in fifth place, and Bateman Painting, a former champion, was last, at 1-5-1.

    Maidstone, whose players are sporting Aston Villa-type jerseys donated by Randy Lerner of Amagansett, Aston Villa’s owner, was not quite its usual self in the showdown with the Hideaway. Part of the reason, according to the Hideaway’s manager, Donald Nunez, is that Alex Meza, Maidstone’s former goalie, arguably the top one in the league, now plays with Bill Miller.

    Gehider Garcia broke the ice, putting a 14-yard shot by the Hideaway’s keeper, Quique Araya, though the Hideaway, which dominated play in the second half, was to come back, with goals by Romulo Tubatan, from about 15 yards out, which tied it, and by Edwin Robles, on feeds from Cristian and Marco Bautista.

    Tubatan’s equalizer came after Marco Bautista stole the ball from the Market’s center midfielder, Diego Marles. Robles bicycle-kicked his first goal in, beating Maidstone’s onrushing keeper, Corey DeRosa, to the far right corner of the nets. Robles’s clincher came near the end of regulation after Fabian Arias had blocked a Maidstone shot and had sent a long pass up the field to Marco Bautista, who got the assist.

    “Marco and Cristian are new — otherwise, we’ve got the same guys we had last year,” Nunez said afterward. “This was the first time we played Maidstone. We were on top of them in the second half.”

    In other action that night, Bill Miller, as aforesaid, edged Tuxpan 1-0 as the result of Oscar Reinoso’s 18-yard direct penalty kick in the early going, and Tortorella defeated Bateman Painting 4-2. Alex George, Eddie Lopez, and David Rodriguez (two) scored for Tortorella. Jonathan Lizano scored Bateman’s goals.    

   Peter Heinz, 36, a Manhattanite who’s summering in Springs, had just biked 30 miles out to Montauk and back on Saturday when his girlfriend, Analisa Cipriano, told him that a triathlon was about to get under way at Maidstone Park. Away they went, and though Heinz arrived late, he quickly swam his way into the lead in the 300-yard swim and didn’t look back during the course of the 7-mile bike and one-and-one-half-mile run.

    The triathlete, who was eighth at Mighty Hamptons last fall, registered for the race after winning it in 40 minutes and 15.42 seconds.

    The runner-up — and the women’s winner — was Sally Dawson, 36, a native of Scotland who lives in Southampton. “Swimming is my thing, though I enjoyed everything today,” said Dawson, who finished in 43:41.52, and whose first triathlon this was.

    Fittingly, there were many more females than men in the Turbo-Tri, which was a fund-raiser for Theresa Roden’s I-Tri program, whose goal is to transform and empower adolescent girls through triathloning.

    For her work — I-Tri now numbers more than 50 members in the Springs and Montauk Schools — Roden was cited in a Suffolk County Legislature proclamation that County Legislator Jay Schneiderman presented as “a woman of distinction.”

    I-Tri’s honoree that day was East Hampton Town Police Officer Kim Notel, who for the past 18 years has, as the Drug Abuse Resistance Education officer, worked with students spanning Wainscott and Montauk.

    She also raced that day, doing the swim leg on a relay team with Ana Jacobs (bike) and Dan Newman (run). “I love I-Tri,” she said. “It’s great for the girls and the community.”

    Ten mothers of I-Tri girls did the triathlon, which is over the same course as the one their daughters are to face in a youth triathlon on July 14.

    In that group was Noemi Sanchez, who had a few years ago been, in the words of Roden, “the victim of a brutal attack at the hands of her estranged husband. . . . If it had not been for the courage of Ms. Sanchez’s daughter, Noely, and her two sisters, Noemi would not be here today. In 2011, a still-recovering Noemi Sanchez watched Noely, who was then 11, compete in I-Tri’s youth triathlon, and in the two years since has used fitness, dancing, and a positive outlook to prepare herself to cross the finish line today.”

    Besides Heinz, the top five men were John Westbrooks, 30, of Howard Beach, Queens; Jeffrey Smith, 33, of Hampton Bays; Gary Zaino, 49, also of Hampton Bays, and Dave Rutkowski, 50, of Montauk.

    The top nine women were Dawson, Patricia Fall Salamy, 46, of East Hampton; Stephanie Brabant, 37, of Springs; Lisa Cueva, 37, of Staten Island; Selena Garcia-Torres, 17, of Sag Harbor; Ricci Paradiso, 50, of East Hampton; Amanda Husslein, 33, of Montauk; Tara Gurney, 38, of East Hampton, and Liz Forsberg, 23, of Montauk.

    The winning relay team comprised Margaret Thompson, the Springs School’s music teacher, and Kristi Guarino, the mother of an I-Tri girl. The runners-up were Susie Roden (swim), Rob Roden (bike), and Deb Donahue (run).

    Kathryn Perry, I-Tri’s publicist, said “over $18,000 was raised, all of which is to benefit the I-Tri program. . . . We had over 40 local businesses as sponsors, including Southampton Hospital, East End Tick & Mosquito Control, Sneakerology, and Ben Krupinski Construction. The East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue Squad made sure that all of our racers had a safe swim, and Hamptons Free Ride helped shuttle spectators from off-site parking to the finish line.”

    Awards “for showing the spirit and determination to face a huge challenge with grace” went to David Valentine, 50, of Little Neck, Queens, and to the aforementioned Noemi Sanchez.

Saturday, June 22

PICKLEBALL, introductory clinic, East Hampton Indoor/Outdoor Tennis Club, Daniel’s Hole Road, Wainscott, 8:30-10 a.m.

TENNIS, Kids Day, Hampton Racquet Club, Buckskill Road, East Hampton, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Wednesday, June 26

MEN’S SOCCER, Maidstone Market vs. Tortorella Pools, 6:30 p.m.; Hampton F.C.-Bill Miller vs. Bateman Painting, 7:25, and The Hideaway vs. F.C. Tuxpan, 8:20, Herrick Park, East Hampton.

Thursday, June 27

U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN, opening day, Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton.