DALLMAN-WEISS Lara

General
CREWMATE
She sails in the 470 class with Lara Dallman-Weiss. The pair were introduced to each other by a mutual friend in April 2018 and began competing together a few months later. "Even though we had both been in the sailing circuit for many years, we had not met prior to April 2018. Our first sail together was the day we met. We spent an hour together and our first conversations weren't idle get-to-know-you chatter but focused solely on how to make the 470 go as fast as we could as a team. Given that we have a clear, mutual goal, our team formed as a business and our friendship has organically developed along the way. My brother has always told me, 'Resources follow commitment'. I made the commitment to sail with Nikki in April of 2018, and from that moment I was eager to get to work. I dove headfirst into our [2020 Olympic] campaign: closed the media business I had started and stopped sailing with the teams [on] which I had been racing. I wanted to make sure my teammate knew she could count on me." (miami.cbslocal.com, 11 Jan 2021; sail-world.com, 27 Feb 2019)

PREVIOUS JOBS
From 2012 to 2013 she worked as a sailing coach and a sail mechanic. In 2016 she founded a media company called Double Shot Studios, which specialised in capturing imagery from drones. She has also worked as a writer for the sailing news publication, Quantum Sails. (LinkedIn profile, 01 Jan 2021)