Betty Cook (1923-1990) was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer and was inducted in to the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 1996.[1]
She grew up as Betty Young in Glens Falls, New York, earned a degree in political science from Boston University and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she met her future husband, Paul Cook. They moved to California, where they became involved in powerboat racing.
She won 17 races, two world championships (1977 and 1979), and was a three-time American Power Boat Association US champion (1978, 1979, 1981).[2] She was the first woman to win the powerboat world championship (1977) in what had been traditionally a male-only sport.[3]
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1981 OffShore Powerboat Race Season
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1982 Michelob Light Grand Bahama 200 Offshore Power Boat Race
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- ^ Betty Cook at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America
- ^ "Betty Cook?". Offshoreonly.com. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ^ Bob Ottum (1980-08-04). "Betty Cook, the only woman driver in the machismo world - 08.04.80 - SI Vault". Vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Archived from the original on 2012-12-03. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
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