RYA Volvo National Youth Squad sailor Saskia Sills has been announced as one of the ten contenders on the shortlist for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year award 2012.

Sills, 17 from Launceston, has made a huge impact in her first full season in the Under 19 Youth RS:X windsurfing class, with her biggest achievement coming at the 2012 Four Star Pizza ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships in Dublin where she claimed the gold medal by an emphatic margin.

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