As qualifiers finished up this past weekend, the berths for Team Race Nationals in June were filled! Some of the usual heavy-hitters like Stanford, St. Mary’s, Roger Williams and Charleston secured their berths and some of the top spots in our rankings this week with victories at their conference qualifiers. Other regular powerhouses like Georgetown, Yale, and BC confirmed their berths as well with strong sailing to best their competition. And other strong teams who were in the hunt for the remaining berths like Navy, Tufts, USF and ODU came out swinging this weekend and proved that they deserved a spot at the big table.
The weekend also came with upsets and disappointments, in particular in NEISA where Dartmouth, Harvard, and Brown were all in the running for the final nationals berth but couldn’t quite get it done at the Fowle. Fordham, a young team that has come out of the woodwork this year, lost a tie-breaker with ODU for the final MAISA spot at the Prosser, and greatly deserves their recognition in the top 15. Stay tuned as Nationals approaches and we get our championship predictions from our panel!
SEE THE RANKINGS: https://www.sail1design.com/college-team-race-rankings/