[1] She won the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Trophy, the United States' women's national championship, in 1969 and 1970.
[2] Both years she sailed with her sister-in-law Patricia O'Malley,[3] with whom she also won the United States' doublehanded championship.
[5] O'Malley talked about the challenges of raising kids and competitive sailing in a 1978 article in The New York Times.
[6] She was the United States' representative to the International Yacht Racing Union meeting when the decision was made to add women-only competitions to the Olympics, O'Malley did not approve of this change as she felt that women would catch up to the men in select sailboats where men were not at a physical advantage due to their physical size.
[7] By 2002, O'Malley noted that the presence of all-women events was a positive development for women in competitive sailing.