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More Motorcycling Female Firsts

Myers, sixteen is the youngest rider to compete in this weekend’s West Coast Moto Jam and became the first female to win an AMA Pro Racing event in the circuit’s 77-year history! She placed first within the shortened Pro SuperSport race at Infineon Raceway.

This is Myers’ first season in the Pro SuperSport class, which is designed for riders between ages 16 and 21. Riders need to be at least 16 to practice or compete at Infineon, so Myers had previously taken only a few laps before this month at what she considers her home course.

Elena had pictured her first AMA win as more of a battle than default, but history had other ideas and really, that’s racing, all counts!

Elena was leading ahead of competitor Joey Pascarella during the ninth lap of the 18-lap race when he lost control of his bike and flipped going into Turn 10. Elena came around and crossed the finish line first as the race’s second red flag was brought out to halt the event. After a five-minute delay, Myers was declared the winner, as AMA officials concluded that cleaning up the track and continuing the race would have put the afternoon’s program too far behind schedule.

She qualified eighth but moved to fifth on the first lap. She held that position until the seventh lap when Jake Gagne slid off the track and went down on Turn 9 to bring out a red flag.

Myers started fourth when the race resumed and moved up to third after the first two turns.

Elena shares, that she kept Beaubier behind me and kept pushing, aiming to catch up to Joey. Elena succeeded winning by 0.338 seconds over Beaubier.

Big congrats to Elena our new American road racing female star, we’ll be watching!

Retrieved May 19, 2010; from http://www.motoress.com/readarticle.asp?articleid=489&c=news

Museum of Florida Art presents “Seasonal Crossings” Exhibition by Mollie Doctrow

June 11 – August 22, 2010

Mollie Doctrow has carved out a name for herself and has celebrated the untouched part of Florida doing it. Her work is woodcut medium, and represents natural forms that are processed accurately and expressively, moving beyond the documentation of native habitats, plants, insects, animals and even rocks that served as inspiration. The carving demands a “high dosage” of spontaneity, letting go, and following the movement or feeling for the form.

The subjects of her artwork include old growth forests and land where little or no development has occurred. Many of the plant species represented are either endangered or threatened. Recent prints depict the varied habitats of Central and South Florida – swamps, forests, marshes, prairies, scrubs, and pinelands. A dominant theme is the “drama of the moment”, a personal interaction with a particular place.

The exhibition, titled “Seasonal Crossings”, will be at the Museum of Florida Art June 11 through August 22, in the Chris Harris Gallery, and is a must see for environmental enthusiasts and lovers of art alike. For more information and exhibit times, call the museum at 386-734-4371. The museum is located at 600 N. Woodland Blvd. in DeLand.

Kathy Tiller, Marketing and Public Relations Director, Museum of Florida Art

The mission of the Museum of Florida Art is to promote and showcase Florida Art and emerging and established Florida Artists through exhibitions and educational and interpretive programming made available to a diverse statewide audience of all ages; to collect and preserve works of art for this purpose; to publish books and other materials concerning the foregoing; and to make such resources available for the public.