Cecilia Wollmann will shift her focus from her 2016 Olympic qualifying bid to try out for Bermuda’s Red Bull Youth America’s Cup team.

The 17-year-old, who is presently competing at the 2015 Laser Radial Women’s World Championship in Oman, will be among those attending next month’s third and final fitness combine at Oracle Team USA’s gym in Dockyard.

“She’s really keen on that and hoping to make the team,” Paul Wollmann, her father, said.

By early 2016 the Bermuda Red Bull Youth America’s Cup committee hopes to identify a squad of 18 of the Island’s best sailors and athletes who, with intensive training and coaching, will be equipped to compete with the world’s best young sailors in the wing sail foiling AC45F catamaran.

The final racing team will consist of six Red Bull Youth America’s Cup squad members, with others supporting as training partners and a shore team.

To be eligible for Bermuda’s team, athletes must be at least 19 and under 25 on December 31, 2017. They must be born in Bermuda or possess a Bermudian passport.

Next month will be an extremely busy one for Wollmann who represented Bermuda at his summer’s Pan American Games in Ontario.

As well as taking part in the Bermuda Red Bull Youth America’s Cup fitness combine, the promising sailor will compete in the Bermuda National Laser Radial Championships before heading off to the ISAF Youth World Championships in Malaysia.

She will be accompanied in Oman by her brother, Mikey, who is also competing in the Laser Radial.

The siblings qualified for the ISAF Youth Worlds at this year’s Sail Canada Youth National Championships in Kingston, Ontario.

Wollmann will then get one last chance to qualify for next summer’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro at a qualifier in Miami in January.

To enhance her chances of Olympic qualification, Wollmann has taken a year off from school to enable her to spend more time practising on the water.

“She is doing some online courses,” Paul Wollmann said. “She is doing that because last year she probably missed so many weeks of school which became tough on trying to qualify for the Olympics.

“Everyone she is competing against are full time sailors, and to compete at this level you cannot do it part time.”

Wollmann also took part in a two-month training camp in Uruguay geared towards her Olympic qualifying preparations training with some of the top Laser Radial sailors in the region.

So far the Bermuda sailor has held her own competing against the top sailors in the world in Oman, where she finished the qualifying races 74th among a formidable fleet of 100.

“She has been doing okay and is happy where she is right now,” her father said. “At this regatta the 100 best women in the world are sailing against her, so this is by far her stiffest competition ever.

“Beating ten or fifteen of these girls would be a success and actually the girl from Ireland [Annalise Murphy], who came fourth at the last Olympics is behind her right now. She [Murphy] is considered as one of the top Laser sailors, so that kind of tells you the quality of the fleet and how hard it is out there.”

At 17, Wollmann is one of the youngest sailors competing in Oman.

“I think the average age is 26 to 27, so most of the girls are probably ten years older than her, and sailing the boat maybe ten years more than she has,” Paul Wollmann said.

Cecilia Wollmann will close out the regatta competing in the Silver fleet having failed to make the Gold fleet which features the top 50 qualifiers.