NEISA Sailors of the Week

*** Nelson and Reynolds are the NEISA COED Sailors of the Week ***

***C. O’Brien, McGauley, M. O’Brien, Ferraris are the NEISA Women’s Sailors of the Week***

*** Harvey and Lingos-Utley are the NEISA COED Sailors of the Week ***

*** Cowles, Ware and Webb are the NEISA Women’s Sailors of the Week ***

***Hawkins and Guerra are the NEISA Women’s Sailors of the Week***

***Egan, Grimes, Chaumont and Davies are the NEISA Sailors of the Week***

*** Cowles and Arcot are the NEISA Women's Sailors of the Week ***

*** Murphy, McGrath and Montagner are the NEISA Coed Sailors of the Week *** 

With the arrival of week 4 in college sailing, interconference competition gets underway pitting SAISA sailors against other teams across the country. At the Kings Point Dinghy Open hosted by the United Merchant Marine Academy, Jacksonville University sailors Matt King and Liz Johnson delivered an outstanding performance winning B-division in a field of 22 teams, positioning the Fins in second place overall just ten points back from the overall win, and earning Week 4 SAISA Sailors of the Week honors in the process. King and Johnson sailed a very consistent event averaging a third place finish over the course of an eleven race series, including two bye races due to a larger fleet than anticipated. Kings Point's notorious trapezoid course put a premium on a successful first beat in which King and Johnson were able to round the top mark in the top third of the fleet nearly every race. Great downwind positioning in pressure coupled with strong boat handling allowed the Fins team to chip away into the top three finishers in seven of their nine races sailed. Congrats to Matt and Liz for earning this week's SAISA Sailors of the Week. 

*** Harvey and Lingos-Utley are the NEISA Co-ed Sailors of the Week***

***Cowles and Ryan are the NEISA Women Sailors of the Week***

***Maus '22 and Gonzalez '23 have been named the NEISA WOMEN’S SAILORS OF THE WEEK***

***Naughton '22 and Borges '22 are the NEISA COED SAILORS OF THE WEEK***

*** Sophia Reineke is the Women’s Sailor of the Week ***

*** Connor Nelson is the Coed Sailor of the Week ***

***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.