May 30, 2024 – Brown’s stellar performance during the 2023-2024 season earns them the title as the overall top team in college sailing.
The Leonard M. Fowle Memorial Trophy honors the late Graduate Secretary of the New England District and Executive Vice President of the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association. Len served in both posts from their creation until his death in 1973 and his devotion to college sailing is without peer. College sailing today had its very beginnings in the organizational ability and personal drive of this one man.
This trophy is awarded to the team of the College or University with the greatest number of Fowle Trophy Points. These points are determined using the composite results of the Women’s Singlehanded, Open Singlehanded, Match Race, Open Team Race, Women’s Team Race, Women’s Fleet Race Semifinals/Finals, and Open Fleet Race Semifinals/Final Championship Regattas. Each team shall receive points toward the Fowle Trophy Award based on its finishing place in each of the events in the composite. Except that only the best finishing place in the Women’s Singlehanded and Men’s Singlehanded Championships shall be used to determine the points for each school in those events.
The Brown sailing team showed its strength by placing in the top-5 at five out of the seven National Championships in College Sailing. Their championship results are as follows:
1st Place at the Match Race Nationals
2nd Place at the Women’s Singlehanded Nationals
4th Place at the Open Team Race Nationals
4th Place at the Open Fleet Race Nationals
5th Place at the Women’s Fleet Race Nationals
8th Place at the Women’s Team Race Nationals
10th Place at the Open Singlehanded Nationals
This is Brown’s second time winning the Fowle Trophy, the first in 1991. John Mollicone, Barry Family Director of Sailing Chair and Head Varsity Sailing Coach, remarked on the team’s success, “Winning the Fowle Trophy is an incredible honor and accomplishment for our team, and I couldn’t be more proud of our student-athletes and the alumni that laid the groundwork for such a strong group. It literally came down to the last race at the Open Dinghy National Championship and of the season to win it, and a lot of pieces fell into place while racing hard until the very end. You need depth, diverse skill sets, and consistency across the board to win the Fowle Trophy, and this year’s team was strong in all seven disciplines within College Sailing.”
Congratulations to Brown University for their impressive performance this year and for winning the 2024 Leonard M. Fowle Memorial Trophy.
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