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High School & College News Articles

Table listing colleges, their NCAA ice hockey teams, coach details, and snarky comments about each school’s hockey program, alongside school and team logos. Rows include Harvard, Yale, and others.

ICSA Team Race Rankings, 14 MARCH 2013

Coordinated by Airwaves Editor Martha Pitt With a few more team race regattas on the books, the strong team race teams are beginning to emerge from the pack.  The four […]

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ICSA Team Race Rankings, February 27 2013

Though the season has just begun and not much team racing has taken place yet, teams are already thinking through the season and preparing for their conference qualifiers for Nationals! […]

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College Race Management 101, by Ken Legler

“Quality and Quantity.”  College race management is the MASH unit of race committee work.  It’s fast and dirty with a minimum of formality.  One person with one small and nimble […]

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Venue Profile: St. Mary's College

by Ken Legler St. Mary’s College of MD, Horseshoe Bend on the St. Mary’s River The sailing conditions of St. Mary’s College of Maryland on the St. Mary’s River are […]

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A Closer Look at Navy's Sailing Venue

By Ken Legler Navy hosts the largest college regattas in the country.  With their armada of multiple fleets of dinghies they can run events with four divisions on the water […]

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ICSA Team Race Spring Season Outlook

ICSA Team Race Spring Season Outlook. Sail1Design previews, by district, the teams to watch for the 2013 spring college sailing season. All photos courtesy of Ken Legler Sailing.  By Ariwaves […]

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Youth Sailors, Take Notice. Meet The New Turbo 420

            Mildly resembling that mad scientist from Back to the Future, both in action and in thought, Fran Charles continues to push our community, and sometimes […]

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Success at Orange Bowl College Night

By Airwaves Writer Zach Brown Biscayne Bay Yacht Club hosted almost 200 future college sailors and twenty-six universities at the 2012 Orange Bowl College Night.  The night started off at […]

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So You Want To Sail in College?

Some sailing things to think about when choosing a college… Bill Jorch, Airwaves Writer Editors Note: Sail1Design would like to welcome Bill Jorch to the Airwaves team. Bill is a […]

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College Night at the Orange Bowl

Questions? Please email Zach Brown:   [email protected] –too late for press, but Connecticut College will be there too! For more information please email Zach Brown:   [email protected]

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Zim Sailing Responds to ICSA Championship Boat/Sponsor Agreement

This letter was published this morning on the ICSA List-serve and sent directly to Sail1Design. It follows our earlier publication here   Earlier this fall, the NEISA Executive Committee approved […]

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Lightning Boat Grant Program – Now Accepting Applications!

By Airwaves writer Martha Pitt Attention sailors:  Want to experience high level sailing in a competitive boat, have all of your sailing paid for this summer while receiving mentoring from […]

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Getting the Most Out of Your College Sailing Experience

By Airwaves Staff Writer Elizabeth Dudley We have had the coaches point of view on what one should do if considering college sailing thanks to Maggie Lumkes article “Thinking About […]

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Meet The UMass-Dartmouth Sailing Team

  By Kelly Stannard Having started up just a year ago, UMass Dartmouth is now a fully funded women’s varsity team, with 13 sailors and three coaches. This team does […]

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Jacksonville University Sailing Team – A Model for a Building Team

By Airwaves Writer Martha Pitt Across the country, high school and youth sailing is continuing to grow, and subsequently the number of junior sailors looking to sail at the college […]

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Controversy in the ICSA: The Future of The “College Sailing Dinghy”

                                     ……under scrutiny Last month, Airwaves writer Zach Brown published an article on […]

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“The Firefly Returns to the Charles”

Editors Note: We encourage more response from our readers on College Sailing Dinghies, past present & future, and we have had a lot of feedback from Zach Brown’s original article […]

Tom Sitzmann avatarTom SitzmannChart titled 'FJ Specs' lists unique attributes, strengths, weaknesses, and skills of an FJ sailing dinghy, with a labeled diagram and specs: 13'4' length, 4'1' width, 220 lbs hull weight, 100.1 sq ft sail area.

An Insider’s Guide to the Boats of College Sailing

By Airwaves writer Zach Brown    (please add your comments in our online forum at the bottom of this article.) The announcement of the new Collegiate 420 by Laser Performance […]

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Count Down to College Sailing, NEISA Edition

Sail1Design would like to officially welcome another new member to the Airwaves team, Kelly Stannard, whose bio is below her first news story. Enjoy Summer is over,  college sailors have […]

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“Meet the New Collegiate 420”

By Airwaves writer Zach Brown   It’s an exciting time to be involved in high school and college sailing.  Even in the face of an economic downturn, new programs are […]

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