Betty Cook
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Betty Cook (b1923, d1990) was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer. She won 17 races, 2 world championships (1977 and 1979), and three time APBA 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]