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2019 Coed All NEISA Team

***Baird, Nicolosi, Tobin and Lingos-Utley are the NEISA Coed Sailors of the Week***

Last weekend held the Women’s Conference Championships for five of the seven conferences while Coed and Team Race Championships took place in the South-east and the Northwest conferences. On top of that, a competitive interconference regatta served as a tuneup with many Coed Conference Championships set for next weekend.

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Rose, Arias, and Carrasco Earn Sailors of the Week Honors at SAISA Women’s Championship

This past weekend's SAISA Women's Conference Championship regatta brought the top women's teams in the conference to the Eckerd College waterfront where they were greeted by strong wind with gusts over 25. Conditions were challenging, but provided some sailors with the opportunity to make things happen on the race course. Dotted with past SAISA Sailors of the Week, this year's women's field was especially strong. With a bullet out of the gate, and then a long wait for improved conditions, Jacksonville University's Charlotte Rose and GiGi Arias were in a good position. As teams returned to the water after the hiatus, Rose and Arias found themselves in the middle of the fleet at the start of the second race. Through impressive downwind boat speed, and a healthy mix of smart and lucky decisions upwind, they were able to outpace the field for the race win. From there Rose and Arias, and later veteran JU sailor Ana Carrasco would finish the regatta with a wire-to-wire A-Division win securing this week's SAISA Women's Sailors of the Week. Rose, Arias, and Carrasco deliver the regatta low score with 9 points over 8 races, only giving up the picket fence to the hometown Tritons on the last race of the day. With their teammates securing the B-Division win, the Jacksonville Fins punched their ticket to Newport and win SAISA Women's Conference Champs for the first time in their program history. Congratulations to Jacksonville, as well as the women from the College of Charleston, Eckerd College, and the University of South Florida who will also represent SAISA in Newport at the ICSA Women's National Championships.   

2019 Women's All NEISA Team

Brown Women’s Team Race Team named NEISA Women’s Sailors of the Week

Yale University’s Shawn Harvey and Graceann Nicolosi named NEISA Coed Sailors of the Week

Rose, Arias, O'Donnell, Gregg, Tucker, and Marcom Earn SAISA Sailors of the Week Honors for Week 11

With an off week between Co-Ed Championships and SAISA Women's Champs teams hit the road to regattas in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, as well as a SAISA favorite in North Carolina. In the nascent and competitive Women's Team Race National Invitational in Providence, RI, USF carried the SAISA banner, while the Eckerd College women grabbed a podium spot at the President's Trophy at Boston University. At Navy Spring, SAISA women stepped up to the co-ed plate. SOTW regulars Alie Toppa and Annabelle Carrington of the College of Charleston staged a strong comeback falling just points shy of the B-Divison win, but the tally for SAISA Women Sailors of the Week went in favor of an inspired performance by Jacksonville University's Charlotte Rose and GiGi Arias at the SAISA/MAISA SailPack Oriental Intercollegiate.

The College Sailing season effectively flips script, switching from a predominantly team race centered season, lasting about 7 weeks, to a short sprint to conference fleet race championships as the national championship picture becomes clear. However, last weekend offered something unique and perhaps pointed to what college sailing will look like in the future.

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Week 10 in SAISA means championship week - at least for Team Racing and Co-Ed Fleet Racing (Women's Fleet Racing Champs is on Week 12) - and some teams were also carrying the SAISA banner competing out of conference. As team racing kicked off from Wrightsville Beach on Saturday morning, it was clear that Jacksonville University was in the mix for an invite to Nationals. As the regatta progressed, the Fins were able to hold strong and qualify for one of the two team racing berths for SAISA at ICSA Team Racing National Championships in Newport, Rhode Island later this spring. This is the first time in program history that Jacksonville University has earned a team race berth. Congratulations to JU and this week's co-ed Sailors of the Week, the JU Team Race Squad of Alfonso Garcia Bringas, Andre Guaragna, Ana Carrasco, Caroline Bourgeois, Daniel O’Farrill, and Stephan Verhulst. 

Last week, 12 of the 16 team race teams featured at the Laser Performance Team Race National Championship were confirmed as conference championships were sailed in New England, the Mid Atlantic, South Atlantic and the Pacific Coast. Meanwhile, the nation’s top women who aren’t sailing on the team race circuit  get into gear with Conference Championships looming and the informal fleet race section of the national schedule turns on.

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