Coaching supports women’s team in tough round-the-world ocean race

The first all-female team to enter the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly Whitbread Round the World Race) in a decade, is being supported by four coaches. Team SCA (Sweden), sponsored by global hygiene business SCA, joined six other teams, including MAPFRE (Spain), setting off for Cape Town, South Africa, from Alicante, Spain on 11 October, on the first leg of a nine-month race, one of the world’s toughest. Coach Joca Signorini, said, “Sailing is a sport with a lot of ‘cross-overs’ to the business environment,...