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*** Doble is the Women's Sailor of the Week ***

*** Reeser is the Open Sailor of the Week ***

Sunny skies and great breeze welcomed sailors to St. Petersburg, Florida for the 2023 SAISA Women's Fall Conference Championship hosted by the University of South Florida. Featuring the top 11 women's teams in the conference, racing was tight from the very start of the event. With several lead changes across the two days of racing, the final standings came down to the final leg of the final race of the regatta with the host USF Bulls protecting a one-point lead to win. The Bulls were led by Emma Shakespeare (Sr., St. Petersburg, FL), Min Min Kelly (Sr., New Orleans, LA), Kay Brunsvold (Jr., Sarasota, FL), and Kalea Woodard (Sr., San Diego, CA) who earned SAISA Women's Sailors of the Week honors for Week 7, Fall 2023. 

Following completion of the women's event, teams traveled across town to Eckerd College for the 2023 SAISA Fall Open Conference Championship for the Robert L. Armstrong Trophy where blue skies and great breeze continued to allow for quality racing and champagne SAISA conditions. With racing on Saturday afternoon and Sunday, the College of Charleston Cougars outpaced the field of 18 SAISA teams for the regatta victory, earning a podium position on all but five of the 22 races held including seven first-place bullets. Winning the Robert L. Armstrong Trophy, the College of Charleston's Noah Zittrer (So., Clear Falls, TX), Lucy Klempen (Sr., Kingshill, USVI), Ben Dufour (So., Geneva, CH), and Noel Owen (Sr., Severn, MD) earned SAISA Sailors of the Week honors for Week 7, Fall 2023. 

Challenging Conditions and Close Competition Marked a Thrilling Weekend of Racing

After two days of close competition in a tight fleet Ava Anderson, ‘27 of Tulane University and Nicholas Reeser ‘25 from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are the 2023  Women’s and Open Singlehanded National Champions.

Athletes in both regattas were greeted Saturday on Lake Pontchartrain with overcast skies, 6-9 knots of breeze from the Northeast and a steady chop that had built overnight. The skill levels of the Women’s and Open fleets were readily apparent to coaches and spectators in the close results. 

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*** O'Keefe, Braun, Costikyan and Spriggs are the NEISA Open Sailors of the Week ***

10 college sailing teams from across the country arrived Friday to Charleston, SC for the 2023 College Sailing Match Race National Championship. The Brown University Bears sailed strongly throughout the entire weekend to take home the Cornelius Shields Sr. Trophy! 

Excellent conditions for match racing on Friday allowed for the entire first stage’s Round Robin to be completed. Conditions were 6-12 knots out of the North Northeast. The defending Champions, Yale University, were perfect after day one with a record of 9-0 trying to become the first team in the history of the event to win three years in a row. The top six teams earned a berth in the Gold Round Robin to determine seeding while the bottom four teams moved to the Repechage to fight for the last two berths in the Quarterfinals.

As the fall regular season winds down, teams across the country are gearing up for the College Sailing Match Race National Championship and the Open and Women’s Singlehanded National Championships. 

College Sailing is returning to Lake Pontchartrain. Tulane University is hosting the 2023 College Sailing Singlehanded National Championships for the Glen S. Foster Trophy (open) and the Janet Lutz Trophy (women’s). Racing starts on Saturday, November 11 and continues Sunday, November 12. 

As the fall regular season winds down, teams across the country are gearing up for the College Sailing Match Race National Championship and the Open and Women’s Singlehanded National Championships. 

The College Sailing Match Race National Championship for the Cornelius Shields Sr. Trophy will be hosted by the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina November 3-5. Charleston last hosted the Match Race Nationals in 2017. Racing is slated for Friday through Sunday with a time limit of 4:30 pm (ET) on Sunday. The race course will be next to the USS Yorktown with views of the iconic Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge.

*** McGranahan, Marlo, Callahan, and Leehealey are the NEISA Open Sailors of the Week ***

*** Nicolosi and Moeder are the NEISA Women's Sailors of the Week ***