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2024 ICSA Team Race Spring Preview and Season Kick-off Rankings!!!

Sail1Design is elated to bring you our coach panel’s ICSA Team Race Rankings again. Remember to click on the team’s ranking link to read Coach Panel Comments! For Open Rankings […]

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ICSA Women’s ACC Final Results & Report: Stanford Wins

Courtesy of the ICSA BRANFORD, CT (Oct. 16, 2023) – Stanford University took the win at the 2023 Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship Finals out of the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club after […]

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Brendan Feeney Named Head Coach at Kings Point

Brendan Feeney will be taking over the head coaching duties at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, as announced by director of operations Richard Cain. “Kings Point Waterfront […]

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Ward Cromwell Named Head Sailing Coach at Eckerd College

By Tom Zucco | Office of Marketing and Communication at Eckerd College ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – He was responsible for steering the College of Charleston’s sailing teams into the same elite […]

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Conner Blouin Elevated to College of Charleston Sailing Head Coach

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Conner Blouin has been elevated to College of Charleston sailing head coach, as announced Wednesday morning by director of athletics Matt Roberts. “We are thrilled to elevate […]

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St. Mary’s College (MD) Names New Ass’t Varsity Sailing Coach

ST MARY’s CITY, MD — St. Mary’s College of Maryland Director of Sailing Bill Ward announced on July 27th the addition of Bradley Adam to the St. Mary’s College of […]

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USODA Announces Partnership with US Performance Academy

USODA is pleased to announce a new partnership with US Performance Academy. USPA is the Online School for Elite Athletes “USODA is pleased to partner with US Performance Academy. The […]

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Sail1Design & US Performance Academy Join Forces

Sail1Design is pleased to announce our newest sponsor and partner, the US Performance Academy. Pursue your competitive sailing dreams, unfettered. Designed by athletes and educators, The USPA specifically benefits driven […]

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2022-2023 High School Sailing Team of the Year

Congratulations to Severn School for winning the S1D High School Sailing Team of the Year Award! This award is calculated based on weighted percentages of a teams results in the […]

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Stanford Wins ICSA Open National Championship!

NEWS FLASH: Stanford WINS COED National Championship!! From ICSA: KINGS POINT, NY (2 June 2023) – Stanford University took a historic win at the 2023 Open National Championship out of […]

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Harvard Wins 2023 ICSA Team Race National Championship

For final Tech Score results see below or go here Saturday, May 27: Day one of the Open Team Race National Championship started with north winds from 4 to 6 […]

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Stanford Wins Women’s ICSA National Championship!

That’s a wrap on Women’s Fleet Race Nationals! After 10 races on Thursday and no racing on Friday due to light wind, Stanford University came out on top, winning the […]

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2023 S1D Coach of the Year Nominations OPEN!!

We are elated once again to announce that nominations for the 10th annual S1D Coach of the Year Award are now being accepted! There are SO many deserving coaches out there, and […]

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ICSA Team Race Ranking Update #2!

The plot really thickened during ICSA Week 8..….. and after another two weeks and many team race regattas—Szambecki, ADM Moore, Harris, Duplin, Friis, to name a few– ICSA COED/OPEN and WOMENS rankings are now […]

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ICSA Team Race Rankings Update #1

EDIT: Carmen Cowles did not win Women’s Sailor of the year last year. Sophia Reineke was the recipient of the award. We said Carmen won, twice actually. Once in the […]

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ICSA 2023 Team Race Rankings #1: Let the Team Racing Begin!

The race to Stanford, host of the 2023 Women’s ICSA TR Nationals, and King’s Point, host of the COED TR Nationals, is on. Welcome to the 2023 Spring ICSA season, […]

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Announcement: Lightning Boat Grant Program Seeks Applications!

Who Says There’s No Such Thing as a Free……. boat? The International Lightning Class Association is proud to announce another season of our wildly successful Boat Grant Program. This program is designed to fund […]

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2021-2022 ICSA All-Academic Team Announced

Courtesy of the ICSA: 2021-2022 ICSA All-Academic Team Announced The 2021-2022 ICSA All-Academic team has been reviewed and selected. This year an impressive 171 student athletes have been named to the team. The ICSA All-Academic Sailing […]

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ICSA News: Reed Maltbie Named ICSA Executive Director

August 1, 2022 – After an extensive interview process, the ICSA has announced the organization’s new Executive Director, Reed Maltbie. Serving as the ICSA’s first Executive Director, Reed will oversee the […]

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Boston College Wins 2022 Women’s College Sailing National Championship

  From the ICSA:      For full results, go here: https://scores.collegesailing.org/s22/sailing-womens-national/full-scores/ New Orleans, LA (May 26, 2022) – After four days of racing on Lake Pontchartrain with tricky conditions and […]

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