Alanna Keating Honored with 2025 Women Making Waves Award for Boating Industry Contributions

SPRINGFIELD, VA – January 22, 2026 – This week, Alanna Keating, Director of Outreach at BoatUS Basis, obtained Boating Trade’s 2025 Girls Making Waves Award on the ELEVATE Summit in Orlando, Florida. Alanna was acknowledged for her contributions to the boating business. The Girls Making Waves program honors ladies within the business who contribute tremendously to the business’s success as they lead their organizations and friends.

For greater than twenty years, Keating has been a trusted title within the boating business, partnering with tons of of organizations to assist make boating safer and pursuing prestigious grants that tremendously profit leisure boaters and assist the protection and follow of unpolluted boating. Underneath her management, BoatUS Basis has been awarded a number of nationwide and regional grants and continues to develop its presence as a number one nonprofit group that goals to cut back boating accidents, develop secure boating academic outreach, and improve stewardship of waterways for greater than 50 years.

Alanna joined the BoatUS Basis in 2005, with a background in environmental administration, shortly main initiatives that required compliance, precision and collaboration. As Director of Outreach, Alanna spearheaded the development of the Life Jacket Loaner Program, the primary nationwide program of its variety that enables households to borrow life jackets at greater than 600 loaner websites throughout the nation. She additionally facilitated the Reel In and Recycle Program, which has helped construct greater than 13,000 fishing line recycling bins.

Extra lately, Alanna secured a prestigious $10 million NOAA grant that helps deserted and derelict vessel (ADV) cleanup efforts in coastal and Nice Lakes waters throughout the nation, and she can also be main the improvement of a nationwide ADV monitoring database, the primary of its variety.

“I’m so honored to be acknowledged as a Girls Making Waves this yr. My dad beloved boating, and a few of my biggest reminiscences are boat days with my household rising up. Having the ability to deliver that to different individuals and assist maintain them secure on the water is my ardour,” stated Alanna Keating, Director of Outreach at BoatUS Basis. “I hope my enthusiasm for this business and the work being performed in secure and clear boating conjures up different ladies to hitch us. There’s a lot alternative to seek out your home within the business and to make a long-lasting impression. There’s unimaginable work being performed throughout the business in S.T.E.M., conservation, social advertising and marketing and extra, which wants passionate individuals to drive change.”

Keating additionally maintains an lively presence on quite a few business working teams, together with the Aquatic Invasive Species Fee (commissioner and steering committee member), the Training and Outreach committee of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Process Pressure, the Virginia Deserted and Derelict Vessel Working Group, and a number of other NOAA committees and dealing teams on marine particles points together with fishing line recycling, shrinkwrap recycling, and deserted and derelict vessels.

For extra data on the BoatUS Basis and to study extra about our grants, please go to boatus.org.

About BoatUS Basis:

The BoatUS Basis for Boating Security and Clear Water is a nationwide chief selling secure, clear and accountable boating. Funded primarily by donations from the greater than 740,000 members of Boat House owners Affiliation of The USA (BoatUS), the nonprofit offers progressive academic outreach on to boaters and anglers with the purpose of lowering accidents and fatalities, rising stewardship of America’s waterways, and maintaining boating secure for all. A spread of secure and clear boating programs – together with the nation’s solely free on-line boating security course – may be discovered at https://boatus.org.