Elizabeth "Betsy" Gelentis Alison (born March 25, 1960) is an American sailor who has been voted Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year five times.
[2] Starting in 1977, Alison sailed on Upper Mystic Lake while a college student at Tufts University, and there she learned the technical aspects of racing from her teammates.
In 1985, Alison won her first Rolex International Women's Keelboat championship, thereby receiving the Bengt Julin trophy.
In 2009, Alison received the Gay S. Lynn Memorial Trophy for her work with adaptive sailing and sailors with disabilities.
[9] In 2011 Alison was in the first group of sailors, and the only woman, elected into the United States' National Sailing Hall of Fame.