| 词条 | Betty Cook |
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Betty Cook (1923-1990) was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer who is a member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. 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).[1] She was the first woman to win the powerboat world championship (1977) in what had been traditionally a male-only sport.[2] Notes1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/classic-offshore/142061-betty-cook.html |title=Betty Cook? |publisher=Offshoreonly.com |date= |accessdate=2010-07-26}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Betty}}{{US-sport-bio-stub}}2. ^{{cite web |author=Bob Ottum |url=http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1123658/index.htm |archive-url=https://archive.is/20121203014953/http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1123658/index.htm |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2012-12-03 |title=Betty Cook, the only woman driver in the machismo world - 08.04.80 - SI Vault |publisher=Vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com |date=1980-08-04 |accessdate=2010-07-26 }} 5 : 1923 births|1990 deaths|American motorboat racers|Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductees|Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni |
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