***Teddy Nicolosi and Anisha Arcot are the NEISA Coed Sailors of the Week***

*** Mia Nicolosi and Ximena Escobar are the NEISA Women’s Sailors of the Week***

CHARLESTON, S.C., (September 11-12, 2021) – Saturday marked the start of the fall 2021 regatta season with the full conference Fall 2021 SAISA Coed Open Regatta hosted by the College of Charleston. Teams were met with light breeze and aggressive currents on Saturday morning with racing north of the USS Yorktown near the marsh. After a brief break, racing moved to Crab Bank where the afternoon breeze filled in providing good but somewhat unpredictable conditions for the second half of Saturday and Sunday morning. Sunday racing wrapped up around 1:30 as the breeze died while the current did not.

Current NEISA Undergraduate President, Preston Anderson Bowdoin ’22 has been selected by NEISA to receive the NEISA Student Leadership Award. Preston has been a driving force in creating the Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity Task Force or TIDE as it is commonly known. Preston is also the former NEISA Undergraduate Scheduling Assistant, and played a contributing role in the Virtual Team Development Symposium in 2020. He is currently the Vice Chair of the ICSA TIDE where he partners with BUSA, NESCAC and US Sailing. Bowdoin Sailing Head Coach Frank Pizzo had this to say about Preston, “Preston balances being exceedingly busy with being exceedingly passionate about what he does and he manages to juggle all the balls he has in the air on a given day with respect to his team, his conference, and his sport nationally over the past three years.” The NEISA Awards Committee is honored to present this award to the most deserving recipient in many years.

ANNAPOLIS, M.D. (June 29, 2021) – The Intercollegiate Sailing Association is pleased to present the 2021 Virtual All-American Awards in lieu of an in-person ceremony following the National Championships. The Quantum Women’s Sailor of the Year, the Everett B. Morris Trophy for College Sailor of the Year and Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award were announced with the new inductees to the ICSA Hall of Fame. The names of the winners for the 2020-21 season will be added to the ICSA Hall of Fame displayed at the Robert Crown Center at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.