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Yale wins Graham Hall and St. Mary’ Women’s; Boston College wins the SNETR

March  18, 2019, Written by Chris Klevan, Photos by Colin Grey Voight

After an action-packed and exciting weekend of sailing, the latest S1D ICSA Team Race Rankings are now live, complete with coach comments!! To see the updated ICSA Team Race Rankings and coach analysis, CLICK HERE!
The Graham Hall is the largest team race on the College Sailing spring schedule. Showcasing 16 teams, this year’s edition ended with 122 races sailed. The accomplished Race Committee at Navy completed a full 16 team round robin and tie-break sail offs between the second and third finishing teams as well as between the tenth and eleventh finishing teams. Ian Burman, Head Coach at the Naval Academy had the following to say of the now iconic event:

“The regatta is named for a former Navy coach who passed away from cancer. He was one of the original advocates for team racing in ICSA. Gavin O’ Hare started the regatta maybe 15 years ago. For the first few years it was a combined event with the John Jackson at georgetown.  8 teams at each venue the first day and then the top 4 from each venue would sail at Georgetown on Sunday while the bottom group was at navy. 9 or 10 years ago, we switched it to a 16 team event at navy only. For the first few years, we did it on 2 courses, but we switched it to 1 course around the same time that nationals expanded to 16 teams.”

Yale won the event finishing with a 14-1 record, only dropping one race throughout the 122 race regatta. Yale sailed their standard squad of Nic Baird ‘19, Nick Hernandez ‘19 and Shawn Harvey ‘21 at the helm of each of the three boats alongside Graceann Nicolosi ‘20, Sonia Lingos-Utley ‘21, Claudia Loiacono ‘21, Catherine Webb ‘22 and Sam Tobin ‘22 in the front of the boat, rotating depending on the breeze.

“We had a solid week of practice last week on our spring trip and although it’s still early season and we’ve only had 7 or 8 days of sailing, the rust is starting to shake off,” said Coach Zack Leonard when asked about his team’s success last weekend “We are improving our communication as a group and becoming a more cohesive group.”

Sailors were welcomed to Navy by a fresh breeze from the Northwest which led to sporty team racing. “The conditions were fantastic for team racing on Saturday with consistently strong breeze and a few gusts hitting the mid 20’s,” said Georgetown Coach Janel Zarkowsky. “Unfortunately Sunday’s light north westerly started fighting a weak sea breeze which slowed down racing considerably. The Graham Hall is a monster event hosting so many teams. It’s a perfect opportunity to prepare a team for a marathon day of sailing, in big breeze, with 15 races to complete a round robin, and the sun setting at 7PM. It did remind me of nationals in that it was completely overwhelming. Each team brought a quiver of players to tackle the weekend’s forecast and the race committee did a great job having minimal lags between rotations.”

Whether it was the conditions or skill that favored Yale, the Bulldogs started the event by winning their first 10 races sailed before dropping their first and only race in race 75 of the regatta, at the hands of St. Mary’s College. Yale finished the regatta by sailing a perfect Sunday, 3-0 including a 1-2-3 finish against an excellent Georgetown team in the school’s first showdown of the young spring team race season.

Charleston finished second with a 12-3 record, winning a tie-breaking sailoff with Georgetown. Again, Charleston leaned on Augie Dale ‘19 and Katherine Lounsbury ‘20 as they adjust to a drastically different team than last year’s championship winning one. Compared to Yale and Georgetown, this Charleston is unseasoned but also that means we don’t know how good they can be. According to techscore, Steven Leuck, a junior,  has only sailed 8 regattas in his college sailing career. Alie Toppa ‘20, on the other hand, has sailed 36 events. But this is only her third team race. Despite inexperience outside Dale and Lounsbury’s boat, clearly the Cougars are doing something right.

“We sail the boats better than the opponent and then team race as needed,” said Charleston Head Coach Ward Cromwell. “I know this team can beat any team in the country right now.  Once we get a bit more starting practice in and tidy up some Mark 3/4 situations this team will be deadly for sure! Annabel sailed with every skipper on my team this weekend, something I have never seen before and speaks volumes to her ability to improve others.  Allie is as fast as anyone in the game right now.  She loves the game & plays with a ton of inspiration and and excellent attitude every time we hit the water.”

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Georgetown finished third overall (12-3) after the tiebreaker sailed against Charleston. “We sailed very well this weekend with only 3 losses in the round robin,” stated Coach Zarkowsky. “The races we won were achieved by a clean execution of all three players at the start. We have confidence in our speed and boat handling, so starting was the key to our success.”

“One issue in the races we lost were the persistent shifts and velocity changes on both days,” continued Zarkowsky. “At the Naval Academy, when sailing in the river adjacent to the Robert Crown Sailing Center, any westerly direction gets blocked by the campus. This creates massive lulls in pressure on certain parts of the course and winding persistent shifts that make balancing pairs or completing passbacks difficult.”

“There is an unspoken coaches competition to have the most sailors compete at one event. We clearly won this weekend! Knowing that Sunday’s forecast was predicting winds from 10 to 25mph, it was a no brainer to bring the entire squad. Our goal was to try out different combinations in both FJ’s and 420’s in this range of conditions. I can say with confidence now that we feel comfortable in any breeze strength and in any boat after sailing this weekend.”

Navy finished fourth with a 11-4 record while Hobart and William Smith finished 5th with a 9-6 record.

Yale won the St. Mary’s Women’s Interconference to add to their team’s success over the weekend. Finishing with 150 total points after 14 races sailed in each division, the Bulldogs finished 22 points ahead of Harvard. Finishing in the top-4 in both divisions the victory was clearly a team effort for Yale. However, the A-Division effort by Louisa Nordstrom ‘20, Kathryn Clulo ‘21 and Catherine Mollerus ‘21 was especially impressive due to the way it started- with six of the first 8 races sailed, in big breeze, scored in the top-3. The two anomalies for Nordstrom, Clulo and Mollerus, a 4th and a 6th. The three Yale sailors won the division by 3 points over Boston College’s Isabella Loosbrock ‘19 and Emma Perry ‘19.

The B-Division performance by Yale was nothing to scoff at. Finishing 10 points out of the division win, Christine Klingler ‘20, Catherine Mollerus ‘21 and Kira Woods ‘19 only had 3 races outside the top-8 the entire 14 race event.

“We have great versatile crews that can sail in a big range,” said Yale Coach Bill Healy. “We moved three crews around the two divisions and it worked out very well. We start by talking about speed skills and technique. Making adjustments during an event is important. On a windy day I talk more about technique than about tactics.  Bad technique and poor speed will never be overcome by talking tactics. Once the speed is there, tactics make sense.”

“We trained for the past four days prior to this event,” continued Coach Healy “Comfort with each other is key and we are going to work on comfort all Spring. And never giving up- There were opportunities to gain and lose especially on Sunday at St. Mary’s. They gained more in those changing situation then they lost. There were times when things looked bleak and they had the skill to take advantage of situations when presented. Not to say that they weren’t ever on the short end of the stick!  And Chrissy, Cate and Kira should have won B as well but were tossed in an unfortunate protest. So everyone sailed really well while still taking stuff home to work on.

“The team is committed to succeed. They’ve done a good job in the gym, at lectures and we just came off a great week training at USF.  Every team is going to get better and we need to do the same.”

Harvard finished 2nd with 172 points while Hobart and William Smith finished 3rd with 180 points. Katherine Cox ‘20, Kate Homet ‘19 and Cailin Gensler ‘21 won B-Division narrowly, putting together a string of top-3’s to start the event, only finishing outside the top-3 in one of the first 8 races sailed.

Boston College won the Southern New England Team Race with a 15-2 record at Connecticut College, the host site of the New England Championship.  The Eagles started well, finishing the first round robin with a 7-2 record. However, Bowdoin too started the first round at 7-2 and MIT did one better, putting up 8 wins in their first 9 races.  The Eagles turned it on in the second round robin, going undefeated and winning the regatta.

“The Eagles made a couple of fleet racing mistakes in the shifty conditions on Saturday that left the door open for a few of teams to capitalize on,” said Boston College Coach Will Bailey. “On Sunday the team did a better job keeping their heads out of the boat and finding pressure to extend away from the competition.”

“We saw pretty some pretty classic conditions for Conn,” continued Coach Bailey. “A shifty westerly coming down over the hill with puffs touching down near the windward marks. Teams that were able to win the ends and extend to the edges found themselves in pretty good shape. The recipe for success was to focus on fleet racing up the first beats and try to avoid the umpires.”

Boston College sailed Wade Waddell ‘19, Sophia Reineke ‘21, Thomas Walden ‘20 and Peter Lynn ‘19 at the helm with Katharine Bowman ‘20, Tara Ferraris ‘19, Caroline Downey ‘19 and Lauren Seigel ‘20 in the front.

Bowdoin finished second with a 14-4 record. MIT finished 3rd, tied with Bowdoin, but losing the tie-breaker on points.

Yale wins the Navy Womens as light air limits sailing across the east coast

March  11, 2019, Written by Chris Klevan, Photos by Colin Grey Voight

The 2019 Spring Sailing Season is slowly heating up, both figuratively and literally. Light air in MAISA limited racing at the Navy Spring Women’s, the John Jackson and the St. Mary’s Team Race- the three premiere regattas last weekend.

The Navy Spring Women’s, at Navy, sailed 11 races in each division. Yale won decisively over Charleston 78 points to 98, respectively. Yale’s victory can be attributed to the stellar sailing of B-Division winner, Christine Klingler ‘20 and Kira Woods ‘19. The Eli tandem put together quite the scoreline, finishing either first or second in all but 3 races sailed. Besides a tenth place finish in race 10, Klingler and Woods never finsihed outside the top-5 in what was, essentially, the women’s interconference season opener. Woods and Klingler finished with 31 points in their division, 26 points ahead of the next closest boat.

However, it was the depth of Yale that made the difference over Charleston as the Cougar’s A-Division boat was just as hot as Klingler and Woods. Alie Toppa ‘20 and Annabel Carrington ‘19 won A-Division, finishing with 33 points. Toppa and Carrington, like Klingler and Woods, finished with only one race outside the top five- a rare accomplishment in A-Division as the competition contains several Women’s College Sailor of the Year darlings.

Bailey Carter ‘19 of William Smith and Louisa Nordstrom ‘20 of Yale are two of the best sailors you’ll find on the women’s circuit today. They’re two of the best sailors you’ll find anywhere today. All who pay attention expect both Carter and Nordstrom to be mentioned for all the major awards come May. Toppa is proving that she belongs right next to those ladies in the conversation for best women’s skipper in College Sailing today.

Nordstrom’s ability to hang with Toppa and Carrington, finishing 14 points behind the A-Division winners, was the difference maker for Yale.

MIT finished 3rd with 111 points.

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The John Jackson Memorial Team Race at Georgetown was limited to a full 8 team round robin and a round of 6. The home team, Georgetown again set the bar for great team racing. Sailing their typical starting squad, Andy Reiter, Sean Segerblom, Will Logue, Claire Mohun, Haley Shea, Rebecca Fung and Caroline Teare, the Hoyas finished with a 11-1 record, dropping one race to Boston College throughout the event. For the second weekend in a row, the Hoyas showed that they are better and faster than the competition, winning 8 of their 12 races in a 1-2-3 combination.

Navy finished second with a 8-4 record and Old Dominion finished 3rd with a 7-5 record.

The John Jackson Memorial was one of two MAISA team race league regattas. The other was the St. Mary’s Team Race Interconference. Like the John Jackson, the St. Mary’s Team Race was limited due to light and variable conditions. 43 total races were sailed at Georgetown and 45 total races were sailed at St. Mary’s.

Stanford, sailing without consistent starter, Romain Screve ‘21, won the event with an 8-1 record- dropping its only race to Hobart and William Smith. Stanford, like Georgetown simply outsails the competition, winning 7 of their 9 races in a 1-2-3 or a 1-2-4 combination. With Screve in the mix they are as formidable as anyone in the game today. Without Screve, they are forced to sail Wiley Rodgers ‘22- the USA heir to the 470 class.

Brown finished second with a 7-2 record. NEISA is uncommonly deep this year and, with only 4 slots to the Laser Performance Team Race Nationals, there are more quality teams edging for a trip to the nationals than berths will permit. Brown is very much in this mix and they showed it with a strong performance in St. Mary’s. Brown features one of the strongest sailors in New England, Patrick Shanahan besides two of the best women’s sailors in the game, Ragna Agerup ‘20 and Hannah Steadman ‘20. With Agerup and Steadman, Brown may be the favorites to win the Women’s Championship this year. On the team race scene, they represent two of the most slippery boats around, they will be as tough as anyone in NEISA.

Hobart and William Smith finished third, 7-2, losing the tie-breaker with Brown. HWS started what is expected to be their top team in Charles Miller ‘19, Lindsey Kloc ‘19, Hector Guzman, Maya Weber ‘20, Kyle Easton ‘20 and Aidan Morgan ‘21. Most of that team sailed to a 3rd place finish at the Laser Performance Team Race Nationals and were about 10 boat lengths away from the regatta win. This is a different team clearly as over the past two weekends they’ve started 3 different boats alongside Miller, Gozman, Kloc and Weber.

Bowdoin won the Rudkin Team Race at Eckerd college, hosted by Roger Williams. Roger Williams beat the system by creatively finding a way to host a regatta about 1,300 miles from home. Bowdoin won the event with a 11-3 record in the two rounds of 8 sailed. Their three losses came twice to MIT and once to Connecticut College. Don’t forget to check out the S1D ICSA Team Race Rankings, complete with Coach Analysis!!

“For us the priority right now is boat speed and boathandling,” said Bowdoin Head Coach Frank Pizzo. “We need the foundation in place before we get going through all the plays.  We think we have a fast group and we hope that will continue to be a strength.”

“We have been using these early regattas to work on plays and communication, but also as opportunities to work on our character skills to perform when it matters,” Coach Pizzo continued. “The emphasis has been on responding well after loses, not focusing on things outside of our control, and winning the hard races at the end of the day.  We have some work to do here but it is important.”

“We know and respect the level of competition in our league so we are just trying to improve while we are down in Florida.”

The Polar Bears sailed senior Matthew Kaplan, Alden Grimes ‘21, Christian Filter ‘20, Matt Safford, ‘20, Marie Bergsund ‘20, Louisa Lindgren ‘19, Julia Adams ‘21 and Emily Gonzalez ‘20.

Roger Williams finished second with a 9-5 record, winning the tiebreakers over Boston College who split the head to head with Roger Williams but were beat 1,2,3 in the final matchup between the two schools.

March  3, 2019, Written by Chris Klevan, Photos by Colin Grey Voight

The ICSA team race season is officially upon us. The Bob Bavier Team Race, sailed in Charleston, South Carolina, featured the now two-time defending Laser Performance College Team Race Champions, College of Charleston. However, the Cougars weren’t the headliners of their home event. It was Stanford and Yale that stole the show. Check out the S1D ICSA Team Race Rankings complete with coach panel analysis HERE!

The 84 race regatta featured teams from the South Atlantic Conference, the Mid Atlantic, New England and the Pacific Coast. Despite light air throughout and dense fog on Sunday, the southern climate was a welcome change to teams traveling from  further up the I-95 corridor.

“Conditions were classic open water choppy sailing on crab bank,” said Stanford Assistant Coach Clinton Hayes. “The wind stayed pretty light the whole regatta so we couldn’t sail in the river at all. I’d say light and choppy conditions dominated the regatta. Some shifts but pretty steady overall. Charleston did a great job getting so many races off and the umpire crew was the best I’ve ever seen at this event.”

Yale won the event with a 17-2 record while Stanford finished second, one race back at 16-3.

Yale started the event slow, losing two of their first 5 races. Harvard beat them with a 1-4-5 combination in Yale’s third race then Stanford won with a 1-2-4 in Yale’s fifth race.  Yale finished the first round robin with a 6-2 record while Stanford went undefeated. However, the experienced Yale squad would find their stride as after race 28 of the 84 race regatta, Yale would lose no more races.

“A team effort,” said Yale Head Coach, Zack Leonard. “We had not practiced at all until we arrived in Charleston so we are just shaking off the rust and going around the course right now.  Everyone is pretty inconsistent at this time of year.  We are looking forward to getting some sailing done in Florida next week.”

“Yale was definitely good and got better as the regatta went on since it was some of their first few days on the water this spring,” continued Mr. Hayes. “Yale is going to be really tough to beat this season. They have 3 talented boats who sail fast and clean around the course. To be competitive in May we’ll need to continue to work on being fast in all conditions and continue to improve our boat handling. We always like our chances when it gets windy but we’ll need to be able to transition across all conditions as Newport is sure to have a little bit of everything.”

The Yale Bulldogs start three skippers consistently, Nic Baird ‘19, Shawn Harvey ‘21 and Nick Hernandez ‘19. The starting crews at the Bob Bavier were Sonia-Lingos Utley ‘21, Claudia Loiacono ‘21 and Catherine Webb ‘22. The only sailor missing from Yale’s typical crew was Junior, Graceann Nicolosi, one of the best crews in the country. For Stanford it was the usual suspects as well. Jacob Rosenberg ‘20, Jack Parkin ‘21, Romain Screve ’21, Kathryn Booker ‘19, Taylor Kirkpatrick ‘20, Sammy Pickell ‘22 and Meg Gerli ‘19.

“We sailed 3 boats across really well at this event,” continued Hayes. “Romain Screve and Sammy Pickell (also Meg Gerli sailed a few races when it got windier) are reliably the fastest boat on the water is all conditions so we have that to rely on but all 3 boats won their positions pretty consistently off the line and didn’t foul too much so it really was a team effort.”

“In general I think we came into the event with more practice then other teams which showed especially early in the regatta. We’re well aware that most teams haven’t sailed much so far this season and will get a lot better in the next few month. We had good boat handling, speed, and generally good starting. We can work more on some coordination on the 1st beat as well as sailing clean in tight situation especially when we’re already winning and in control of the race.”

The home team, Charleston finished 3rd with a 13-6 record. Unlike Stanford and Yale, there are a lot of questions surrounding the 2-time defending champs. As expected the Cougars were anchored by veterans Katie Lounsbury ‘20 and Augie Dale ‘19, the only returning starters from last year’s championship. Any team losing 4 of 6 starters should expect a drop-off. The question was how far would Charleston drop. The answer seems to be not too far. While they were swept 3-0 by Yale, Charleston won one of three against Stanford and 2 of 3 against a good Harvard team.

Many expected to see women’s phenom, Alie Toppa and Annabel Carrington in the team racing mix. She was indeed present at the Bob Bavier. However, in the final four, where Charleston put together an impressive 2-1 record against the top teams in the event, coach Ward Cromwell went with Steven Leuck ‘20 and Payton Alexander ‘19 along side Jack Brown, Hunter Skinner, Dale and Lounsbury.

Leuck and Alexander are unknowns on the college sailing circuit. The other boat, Jack Brown ‘21 and Hunter Skinner ‘20 have shown flashes. Next to Dale and Lounsbury, if the new faces to this team can learn from the championship experience present on this team, Charleston will surprise the critics for yet another spring team race season.

College of Charleston won the ODU Spring Women’s narrowly over St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Cornell, 113 to 116 and 118, respectively. While the Cougars’ presumptive top boat, Alie Toppa and Annabel Carrington were team racing, Charleston showed their depth, winning the women’s interconference regatta nonetheless. The driving force behind the regatta win was Marian Frances Williams ‘21 and Elizabeth Mignon ‘19 in A-Division. The duo won the division by 10 points, finishing in the top-5 in all of the final 8 races of the event, including three first place finishes.

St. Mary’s B-division boat, Katherine Bennett ‘22 and Sophia Taczak ‘21 also impressed, winning the division by 15 points with no races outside the top-5 in the 12 race regatta.

In the Mid-Atlantic Conference, two 6-team team races were held together on the Potomac River, south of Washington DC. The GW Team Race and the Georgetown Team Race start the MAISA Team Race League, a cumulative regatta circuit to seed their conference championship and national qualifier in April.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges won the Georgetown Team Race with a 13-2 record while Georgetown won the GW Team Race with a 15-0 record. HWS and Georgetown represented half of last year’s team race final four. While both teams lost essential seniors from last year’s campaigns, most of the sailors remain present for this team race season. The question for both teams will be how they fill the void left by those who graduated last year.  ICSA TR RANKINGS

For HWS, it was last year’s women’s A-division champ, Bailey Carter ‘19 who got the call early alongside Charles Miller ‘19, Lindsey Kloc ‘19, Hector Guzman ‘20 and Maya Webber ’20 in the Georgetown Team Race. Carter, sailing with Kyle Easton ‘20 sailed the first two round robins in entirety. HWS finished with a 8-2 record in those two rounds with a loss to ODU in the first round and a loss to Navy in the second round. However, coach Scott Ikle made a change in the final round robin, sailing Kyle Easton as skipper with Anna Flaherty ‘20. HWS went undefeated in this round, winning handily over Fordham, Kings Point and NY Maritime with 1-2-3 finishes each, a 1-2-4 over ODU and a 1-2-5 finish over Navy.

“Georgetown is going to be vying for a national championship,” said Cornell Head Coach Brian Clancy. Georgetown won the GW Team Race handily. They beat all other 5 teams at the event with a 1-2-3 combo at least once. The Hoyas finished with a 1-2-x in 14 of the 15 races they sailed. The only other race they finished in the super stable 2-3-4 combination. Andy Reiter ‘19, with Haley Shea ‘19 and Claire Mohun ‘19, is much more than just a suitable replacement for last year’s starter and graduating senior, Roger Dorr. The emergence of Reiter as a great team race skipper makes this Hoya team extremely dangerous next to two of the best sailors in the nation, Sean Segerblom ‘20 and Will Logue ‘20. Segerblom, Logue and Reiter are as formidable a starting 3 as any team can put together. The three skippers alongside an excellent group of crews with now ample experience, Caroline Teare ‘21, Rebecca Fung ‘19, Gynie Dunlevy ‘20, Shea and Mohun make this Hoya team as good as any team out there.

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