NEISA News

This past weekend in SAISA featured state championship regattas in the Carolinas, Florida, and a combined Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia event, the first such events under the new, revised SAISA schedule. Hosted by the University of Tennessee after a late venue change, the Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia "TAG" Trophy regatta was won in impressive fashion by the Sewanee Tigers. Led by Heyward Main (Sr., Charleston, SC), Michael Edge (So., Raleigh, NC), Graham Cosby (Fr., Charleston, SC), and Kendall Buck (Jr., Fairhope, AL), the Sewanee Tigers delivered a perfect regatta with picket fences (all first-place finishes) in every race in both divisions. They even carried bullets into the 5th race of the regatta in A-Division before conditions deteriorated and B-Division was unable to complete a matching rotation. Winning both A and B-Divisions, and the overall regatta, the Sewanee squad secured the first TAG Trophy, debuted undefeated in college sailing, and earned SAISA Open Sailors of the Week!

*** Bragg and Clutterbuck are the Open Sailors of the Week ***

*** Bayless and Horangic are the Women's Sailors of the Week *** 

*** Holder and de Alessi are the Women's Sailors of the Week ***

*** Baker and Markert are the Open Sailors of the Week ***

The Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) three spring national championships, Women’s National Semi-Final and Final Championship, Open Team Race National Championship, and the Open Dinghy National Semi-Final and Final Championship will begin Tuesday, May 23. The Women’s event will last for four days immediately followed by the Team Race championship on May 27, lasting for three days and the Open championship on May 30, lasting for four days.

The three events will be hosted by the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, at the Yocum Sailing Center, in Kings Point, NY and the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association. Book ending the spring championships are the ICSA Annual Meeting, held on Monday, May 22, where the ICSA Hall of Fame Honorees will be announced and the ICSA Afterguard / Alumni Regatta on June 3-4, at Seanwahaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Centre Island, NY.

This past weekend at the Navy Spring Women's Fleet Race, NC State University skipper Isa du Plessis (Jr., Ft. Lauderdale, FL) and crew Annika Milstien (So., Tampa, FL) overcame bitter cold and challenging conditions on the Severn River to win B-Division at the competitive interconference event. With three bullets and five podium finishes across the two-day event, du Plessis and Milstien propelled the Wolfpack to an overall 8th place finish at the cross-regional event hosted by the USNA, and earned this week's SAISA Women's Sailors of the Week honors. 

At this past weekend's Bob Bavier Team Race hosted at the College of Charleston, the University of Miami team race squad put together an outstanding regatta securing wins over nationally ranked teams en route to an appearance in the final round and a 4th place overall finish, top amongst SAISA competitors at the event. The Hurricanes squad of Aidan Dennis (So., Kemah, TX), Dom Canonico (Sr., Tampa, FL), Atlee Kohl (So., St. Croix, USV), Natalie Elder (So., Boston, MA), Marshall McCann (Sr., Houston, TX), James Nappo (Jr., Chicago, IL), Steven Hardee (Fr., St. Croix, USV), and Teddy Bueres (Sr., Miami, FL) delivered a great performance over the two-day event and earned this week's SAISA Open Sailors of the Week honors. 

*** de Castro and Kiss are the Open Sailors of the Week ***

*** Cowles, Moeder and Grimes are the Women's Sailors of the Week ***

*** McGranahan and Wang are the Open NEISA Sailors of the Week***

*** Redmond and McGauley are the Women's NEISA Sailors of the Week***

The College of Charleston's team race team dominated the 2023 Mendelblatt Team Race winning the event and losing only one race during the entire event. By winning the Mendelblatt, the Cougars squad of skippers Axel Stordahl (Jr.), Jack Howard (Sr.), Brandon Geller (Sr.), and crews Noelle Owen (Sr.), Lucy Klempen (Jr.), and Anna Sherry (Sr.) secured top seed at the Bob Bavier Team Race, the second event in the SAISA Team Race League, as well as earned SAISA Sailors of the Week honors for Week 3. The Cougars were also supported by crews Aidan Iaconis (Fr.) and Garrett Grenauer (So., Buffalo, NY). Following this strong showing, the Cougars received votes in the Sail1Design ICSA Open Team Race national rankings. Meanwhile in Wilmington at the UNCW Trophy Regatta, Clemson University skipper Nilah Miller (So., Jackson, MS) fought breezy conditions and a competitive fleet to earn the A-Division win, scoring three bullets and a podium finish in all but one of the ten races on the day. Together with crew Sam Heighway (So., Westerville, OH), Miller's performance helped her Tigers secure a podium third-place finish at the event and with the outstanding performance, earn SAISA Women's Sailor of the Week honors. Congratulations to this week's SAISA Sailors of the Week.  

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