NEWPORT, R.I. (June 4, 2015) – Today was the last day of the Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship, co-hosted by Brown University, Salve Regina University and New York Yacht Club. This is the last of three high caliber spring college sailing national championships that were run out of the Sail Newport Waterfront Center at Fort Adams. After four days of intense competition Yale University has won the national title and the Henry A. Morss Memorial Trophy.
The sailors hit the water to begin racing this morning, but the winds were too light and the current was too strong, so racing was postponed for a couple of hours. By 11:15 a.m. racing began. A steady southeasterly breeze filled in and built to around 8-12 knots with higher gusts this afternoon. The sun was out and temperatures stayed around 60 degrees.
The race committee was able to complete nine races today in both divisions for a total of 18 races for the regatta. A-division sailed in Z420s and B-division sailed in FJs today. The sailors competed on windward-leeward four leg courses.
Yale finished 68 points ahead of second place overall and won the Henry A. Morss Memorial Trophy, which was donated by a group of nationally known yachtsmen as a memorial to Henry A. Morss, a Boston yachtsman and 1907 Bermuda Race winner, as well as an MIT alumnus and benefactor.
“It feels amazing,” says Bill Healy, assistant coach for Yale of their win. Yale swept the 2015 series of spring national championships, something that has not been done since 1991 when the U.S. Naval Academy won the women’s, team race and coed events. It is also the second year in a row that Yale won this coed dinghy championship.
“We had the same skippers last year and then got to practice with this team, including the women’s team, all year – and had great, great practices,” Healy says. “It’s been an amazing year,” he says.
“Today we had a pretty good gap between second place, so we were pretty calm,” Healy says. “The only bit of stress was that Graham [Landy] and Katherine [Gaumond] were probably a little overpowered in the Z420 today, but they were comfortable to stay together,” he says.
“Everyone is really ecstatic and we have a lot of parents here celebrating too,” Healy says, “Brown and Salve ran an awesome event.”
Sailing for Yale: Graham Landy ’15 with Katherine Gaumond ’15 and Charlotte Belling ’16 in A-division and Ian Barrows ’17 with Meredith Megarry ’17 and Clara Robertson ‘17 in B-division.
U.S. Coast Guard Academy held onto second place after yesterday and finished 10 points ahead of third place overall and won the Oxford University Trophy. It has been many years since Coast Guard has been on the podium for this event.
The Oxford University Trophy is awarded to the second place team in the Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship. The Oxford University Yacht Club team and its captain Jeremy Thomas presented this trophy in 1954 on the occasion of the first of a continuing series of college regattas between British and North American teams held alternately in the United States and Great Britain every two years.
“We are thrilled – it’s been decades since the school has been on the podium,” says Brian Swingly, head coach for Coast Guard. “We were comfortable in the conditions and especially this afternoon, the conditions were similar to our New England championships a few weeks ago,” Swingly says.
“We were calm today because we knew we had time to get races in and that the wind would fill – we were antsy to get going,” Swingly explains.
“We have a pretty young team and are happy with how things came together at the end of this season and are excited to continue and improve next year,” he says.
Sailing for Coast Guard: Avery Fanning ’16 with Robert Turley ’16 and Hannah Herring ’18 in A-division and Nikole Barnes ’17 with Jennifer Lane ’15 and Andrew Britton ’16 in B-division.
Boston College finished in third place, for the second year in a row, winning the Metropolitan Sailing League Trophy, which was first presented in 1971. Boston College had an incredible day today and climbed up the scoreboard to third from finishing yesterday in ninth place.
“We didn’t talk about doing anything special today other than to do what we practice,” says Greg Wilkinson, head coach for Boston College. “The difference between today and yesterday, is that yesterday we didn’t do that,” Wilkinson says.
“It was a great fleet, very strong and it was a game of inches – one third of a boat length could make a huge difference on the starting line,” Wilkinson says.
“As proud as I am of my team, the story is Yale, who accomplished what a lot of teams set out to accomplish every year and it’s something that hasn’t been done in over 20 years,” he says.
Sailing for Boston College: Raul Rios ’16 with Allison Ferraris ’17 and Alex Palfrey ‘17 in A-division and William Bailey ’15 with Katherine Wysocki ’15 in B-division.
The Robert Allan, Sr. and Robert Allan, Jr. Trophies are awarded to the low point “A” and “B” teams, respectively, in the Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship. Graham Landy ’15 with Katherine Gaumond ’15 and Charlotte Belling ’16 from Yale won A-division with 104 points, six points ahead of second place. Ian Barrows ’17 with Meredith Megarry ’17 and Clara Robertson ’17, also from Yale, won B-division with 82 points, 49 points ahead of second place.
FINAL OVERALL RESULTS
1. Yale University, 186
2. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 255
3. Boston College, 265
4. College of Charleston, 299
5. Georgetown University, 314
6. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 319
7. Roger Williams University, 324
8. U.S. Naval Academy, 325
9. Tufts University, 339
10. Old Dominion University, 340
11. Stanford University, 344
12. USMMA Kings Point, 355
13. Brown University, 387
14. Fordham University, 392
15. Harvard University, 415
16. Bowdoin College, 426
17. SUNY Maritime, 430
18. University of Wisconsin, 442
To learn more about the teams competing in all of the events and to follow the racing and results visit the event website: http://2015nationals.collegesailing.org/.
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Frank Pizzo named the Henri-Lloyd S1D Coach of the Year!
This year’s winner of the S1D Coach of the Year, presented by Henri-Lloyd, is Bowdoin College Head Coach Frank Pizzo. This award is determined by you, our readers. We only choose from submitted nominations!! We had MANY outstanding candidates, and this year was, by far, the most difficult year to choose.
Frank’s nomination letter included the following from a player on the Bowdoin squad: “To the Editor of Sail1Design: I saw your coach of the year competition, and I can think of no one who deserves it more than Frank Pizzo, the coach of the Bowdoin College sailing team. I have been on the team for four years, and in this time, coach Pizzo has turned the program around and built one of the strongest teams in the country. He is great both on and off the water and cares deeply about each of his players. Both the women’s and coed teams made nationals for the first time in program history last spring, and we are going again this year. Frank pushes his sailors on the water and in the gym, and has build a cohesive team whose members buy into the program above themselves.”
Frank has taken the Bowdoin Polar Bear sailing team to new heights. Qualifying for the Team Race New Englands, Womens Nationals, and COED Nationals, are just the most recent steps in a process that has seen Bowdoin climb the ladder in the very competitive NEISA sailing conference.
This award is by sailors, for sailors, and we are most pleased that our presenting sponsor, Henri-Lloyd, will present a Henri-Lloyd Jacket to Frank, along with a $500 gift card to shop at Henri-Lloyd online. If you want the best sailing clothing out there, we suggest you shop there too!!
Learn more about our Sailor of the Year award, and previous winners, here.
YALE UNIVERSITY WINS LASERPERFORMANCE TEAM RACE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 31, 2015) – Today was the third and final day of the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship on Narragansett Bay. This event is the second of three collegiate sailing national championships co-hosted by Brown University, Salve Regina University and New York Yacht Club this spring. After three days of racing Yale University is the national champion and winner of the Walter C. Wood Trophy for the third year in a row.
The day began with completing the top eight round robin. Racing got underway around 9:30 a.m. Competitors sailed in FJs on digital N courses for the top eight and in Z420s for the final four round. The remaining 13 races were completed in the top eight round today. The conditions were cloudy with lingering rain and thunderstorms in the area. Winds started around 10-12 knots and by the end of the day a southwesterly sea breeze brought steady 15 knots with gusts around 20 knots.
The race officials kept the races going and by 1 p.m. the competitors were into the final four racing. A total of 154 races were completed in the event.
Today the teams were fighting to advance into the final four round. Due to the competitiveness of each team in this event, no one went through undefeated. Yale finished the top eight round with three losses, Boston College with two, Stanford University with four and College of Charleston with two. Then again in the final four everyone took a hit, but Yale came out on top.
“This is pretty amazing and it feels really good,” says Bill Healy, assistant coach for Yale University. “We have seniors on the team who missed qualifying for this event their freshman year and now they have gone on to win it three years in a row,” Healy says.
“We had good races against Charleston – who came out really strong – and good matches against Stanford and Boston College,” Healy says. “We wouldn’t have changed anything, the team really gelled and we had good crews on the land and the water,” he says.
This is Yale University’s third team race national championship title and Walter C. Wood Trophy win, having just won the event the last two consecutive years.
The winning team members are: Ian Barrows ’17, Graham Landy ’15, Malcolm Lamphere ’18, Clara Robertson ’17, Natalya Doris ’17, Christopher Champa ’18, Katherine Gaumond ’15, Charlotte Belling ’16 and Meredith Megarry ’17.
There were six races total in the final four and the winds had picked up to gusts around 20 knots, so a lot of teams were making substitutions and putting their heavy air crews in. Boston College went into the round strong winning their first two races, but lost their last race against Yale. Boston College finished the event in second place.
“We did pretty well today,” says Greg Wilkinson, head coach for Boston College. “It was great conditions today, we like it windy,” he says. But in the end Wilkinson applauds Yale for their win.
“The credit goes to Yale, they not only beat us in the event, but they beat us in every race we sailed against them,” Wilkinson says.
Sailing for Boston College was: William Bailey ’15, Erika Reineke ’16, Raul Rios ’16, Katherine Wysocki ’15, Elizabeth Barnard ’15, Allison Ferraris ’17, Katja Sertl ’16, Alex Palfrey ’17, Christopher Dwyer ’15 and Domenic Bove ’15.
Stanford finished the regatta in third place for the second year in a row. After sustaining losses in their first two races of the final four round they won their last race against College of Charleston.
“We were psyched to win big in our last race against Charleston to get our spot on the podium,” says John Vandemoer, head coach for Stanford. “We’re psyched to be on the podium for the second year in a row, but hope to win next time,” Vandemoer says.
“The best part of the event was how we started each morning with tough races but had solid starts to win those first races,” Vandemoer says. “Our seniors are also excited to have had the opportunity to finish on the podium for their last team race regatta in college,” he says.
“Every race was super close, there were no real blow outs,” says Vandemoer. “The top eight were really even and the top four were super even,” he says.
Sailing for Stanford was: Antoine Screve ’16, Hans Henken ’15, Kieran Chung ’15, Haley Kirk ’15, John Cannistraro ’17, Samantha Steele ’16, Daniel Ron ’17 and Nicolette Obel ’17.
Final Results, Top 8 (wins and losses)
1. Yale University, 21-4
2. Boston College, 19-6
3. Stanford University, 17-8*
4. College of Charleston, 17-8**
5. Georgetown University, 15-7
6. Roger Williams University, 14-8
7. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 12-10
8. Tufts University, 9-13
* Number of races won when tied teams met (2)
** Number of races won when tied teams met (1)
To learn more about the teams competing in all of the events and to follow the racing and results visit the event website: http://2015nationals.collegesailing.org/.
YALE UNIVERSITY WINS THE SPERRY WOMEN’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 28, 2015) – Today was the last day of racing for the Sperry Women’s National Championship on Narragansett Bay co-hosted by Brown University, Salve Regina University and the New York Yacht Club. Eighteen women’s collegiate teams raced for the Gerald C. Miller Trophy and Yale University came away with the win.
Racing began at 9:30 a.m. in temperatures right around 70 degrees under cloudy skies. Although the winds were the lightest of the event this morning, they did not disappoint for the last day of racing. The southwest breeze in the morning was around 10 knots and built to around 15+ knots by the end of the day. The course was affected by some thunderstorms near the area, but the course was pretty even for the day until the last sets when the left side became favored.
Today the divisions swapped boats again, A-division sailed in FJs and B-division sailed in Z420s. The sailors completed nine races in both divisions on windward leeward courses with 3 or 4 legs for a total of 18 races in each division for the event. The race committee was able to meet the racing deadline and completed the races just before 4:30 p.m.
Going into today’s competition Boston College, Brown University and Yale University were each only separated by one point. Dartmouth College, the defending champion trailed the top three by nine points.
The intense competition and solid conditions made for exciting racing today. Boston College led the racing until race 14 when Yale took over the lead. The two teams were always within striking distance of each other, but Yale kept the lead for the final four races of the day. Right behind Boston College was Brown University and Dartmouth College, who were never far from finishing in the top three.
The home and co-host team, Brown University took third place winning the Ann Campbell Trophy. The Brown women aimed to sail clean and execute today.
“We are psyched to be on the podium,” says John Mollicone, head coach for Brown. “We will be kicking ourselves because we had the opportunity to win the regatta, but we are happy to be third,” Mollicone says.
Despite being one of the home teams, Mollicone explains, “The last few days we felt we had some home court advantage, but with the weather and conditions today, we did not feel that.” Although Brown finished in third place overall, they did win B-division.
“We had two senior skippers win B-division and we are really happy for them,” says Mollicone.
Sailing for Brown was Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick ’17 with Lydia Whiteford ’15 and Alexandra Swanson ’16 in A-division and Johanna Kincaid ’15 with Jessica O’Dell ’16 and Kelly McGlynn ’15 with Ragna Eide ’16 in B-division.
Boston College finished in second place winning the New England Women’s Trophy. Once Yale took the lead, Boston College fought hard to gain it back, but was not able to catch them.
“It was a great day,” says Greg Wilkinson, head coach for Boston College. “We wish we could have executed better, but I think the girls realize the strength of the competition that they were up against,” Wilkinson says. In between races, Wilkinson says, “I tried to just remind the girls this is a sailboat race and there is nothing special you need to do – just do what you practiced.”
“From our team, our hats off to Yale, we gave them everything we had,” says Wilkinson.
Sailing for Boston College was Erika Reineke ’16 with Elizabeth Barnard ’15, Katja Sertl ’16 and Emily Schalka ’15 in A-division and Allyson Donahue ’17 with Emily Schalka ’15 and Madeleine Loosbrock ’17 in B-division.
The Sperry Women’s National Champions and winners of the Gerald C. Miller Trophy is Yale University. After finishing in third place yesterday, the women sailed smart and fought back to take the win today.
“Morgan [Kiss] had a string of seven top three finishes in a row and that made a big difference for us today,” says Bill Healy, assistant coach for Yale, of the A-division boat. “Morgan was in her own zone today and she and Emily did great,” Healy says.
Morgan Kiss is a senior this year and she felt especially proud of their win. “I think that it was obviously really good competition and that it was really tough sailing against all of the girls and it was a really tight fleet,” says Morgan Kiss. “I think that what we did was just focus on one race at a time and try our hardest in each one and I definitely owe it to my crew today, Emily Johnson, who kept us in the game even when we had our doubts,” Kiss says.
Another turning point for Yale today was when they switched out their B-division crew for the last set of the day to try and get more weight in the boat. “We put Claire [Huebner] in with Casey [Klingler] so that we could hang with Boston College and that saved us,” says Healy.
Sailing for Yale was Morgan Kiss ’15 with Emily Johnson ’16 and Claire Huebner ’18 in A-division and Casey Klingler ‘18 with Katherine Gaumond ’15 and Claire Huebner ’18 in B-division.
After racing, awards were presented at the Sail Newport Sailing Center hosted by Salve Regina University, for the top teams and also for the first place finishers in each division. Morgan Kiss ’15 with Emily Johnson ’16 and Claire Huebner ’18 from Yale won the Madeleine Trophy, awarded to the low-point A- division team. They finished with 96 points total, 15 points ahead of the second place pairing from Boston College.
Johanna Kincaid ’15 and Kelly McGlynn ’15 with Jessica O’Dell ’16 and Ragna Eide ’16 won the Judy Lawson Trophy, awarded to the low-point B-division team. They also finished with 96 points total and were four points ahead of the second place pairing from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Full results: http://scores.collegesailing.org/s15/2015-sperry-icsa-womens-national/
Women’s Final Overall Results
1. Yale University, 223
2. Boston College, 228
3. Brown University, 234
4. Dartmouth College, 237
5. College of Charleston, 292
6. Georgetown University, 300
7. University of Vermont, 308
8. University of Rhode Island, 310
9. Stanford University, 334
10. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 341
11. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 348
12. Cornell University, 398
13. George Washington University, 402
14. Old Dominion University, 412
15. Eckerd College, 426
16. U.S. Naval Academy, 436
17. Bowdoin College, 444
18. University of South Florida, 487
2015 Baker High School Team Race National Championship Results
Saturday, May 23: Light winds and choppy conditions made for difficult racing on Day 1 of the 2015 Baker Championships. The race committee were busy with the tricky condition but managed to get 52 races of the 66 race round robin complete on Saturday. St.Thomas Aquinas High School leads going in to Day 2, with 8 wins.
Sunday, May 24: Day 2 dawned with cloudy skies and glassy seas. The Race Committee found a few puffs of wind early on, and ran 2 very slow races, then the wind shut off. The sailors and RC waited around (somewhat) patiently, and finally the breeze filled in from the East at 10-15 kts. This allowed the committee to finish the initial round robin, but leaving no time for a gold, silver and bronze rounds.
In an exciting three race sail-off Shorecrest Preparatory (St. Petersburg, FL) bested its cross-state rival St. Thomas Aquinas (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) 2-1. National Champions are Shorecrest Prep with St. Thomas Aquinas in second and Newport Harbor (Newport Beach, CA) in third. In fact, 3 teams ended the regatta at 8-3, tied for 3rd place: Severn School, Newport Harbor HS, and St. Georges School. Tiebreakers were left to who-beat-whom in the regular round.
Sailing for Shorecrest Preparatory School was skippers Nic Baird ’15, Patrick Shanahan ’15, Hannah Steadman ’16, and Josh Dochoda ’16; crews were Kathryn Booker ‘15, Peninah Benjamin ‘16, Kyle Dochoda ‘17, and Andreea Ranney-Pace ‘16.
On another important note, the Baker Championship Regatta qualified as a Clean Regatta, in partnership with Sailors for the Sea, Chicago Yacht Club’s first and highly successful green initiative. Through the use of reusable water bottles presented to each sailor with water stations available on the rotation and umpire boats, zero trash on water lunch containers, and an electric powered spectator boat, the CYC hosted Baker Championship Regatta is going for a Gold level certification. Chicago Yacht Club proudly embraces keeping our waters clean for future generations of sailors.
ISSA Team Race Website
Sailing for Shorecrest Preparatory School was skippers Nic Baird ’15, Patrick Shanahan ’15, Hannah Steadman ’16, and Josh Dochoda ’16; crews were Kathryn Booker ‘15, Peninah Benjamin ‘16, Kyle Dochoda ‘17, and Andreea Ranney-Pace ‘16.
On another important note, the Baker Championship Regatta qualified as a Clean Regatta, in partnership with Sailors for the Sea, Chicago Yacht Club’s first and highly successful green initiative. Through the use of reusable water bottles presented to each sailor with water stations available on the rotation and umpire boats, zero trash on water lunch containers, and an electric powered spectator boat, the CYC hosted Baker Championship Regatta is going for a Gold level certification. Chicago Yacht Club proudly embraces keeping our waters clean for future generations of sailors.
ISSA Team Race Website
ICSA 2015 Team Race Championship Preview & Prediction!
Brought to you by Dynamic Dollies, Sail1Design is pleased to present the final ICSA Team Race Rankings entry for 2015. In this coaches poll system, we rank the teams based on the format of the ICSA Team Race Nationals, to be held 29-31 May in Newport, RI! Below our rankings, cast YOUR vote for whom you think will win!!!
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