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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. 


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.


The 2022-2023 ICSA All-Academic team has been reviewed and selected. This year an impressive 277 student athletes have been named to the team. The ICSA All-Academic Sailing Team recognizes Juniors and Seniors who have participated as a competitor or alternate in seven regattas (2022-2023) and have a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher on a 4.0 scale.


The selections have been made for the College Sailing Fall National Championships. The Open and Women’s Singlehanded National Championships will be hosted by Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 11-12, 2023. The College Sailing Open Match Race National Championship will be hosted by the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina on November 3-5, 2023.

The National Championship Selection Committees are charged with selecting the most competitive field of At-Large Candidates for the National Championships. To be eligible, candidates must have competed in a corresponding Conference Championship in any ICSA conference. Selectors must honor the finishing order at any respective conference championship; to select the fourth-place sailor in a conference, they must also select the second and third place candidates. 


Stanford University took the win at the 2023 Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship Finals out of the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club after two days of racing on the Eastern Long Island Sound. The Atlantic Coast Championship was the second event of a two stage series which began with stage one hosted by MAISA with two evenly seeded events one at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD and the other at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in historic St. Mary’s City. The Cardinal won with a commanding 37-point lead holding first place throughout the entire event. Boston College and Cornell University rounded out the podium with the home team Yale 12 points off the podium in 4th place.


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Following the conclusion of the 2023 College Sailing National Championships, the ICSA has announced the 2023 All-America Team, Open and Women’s Sailor of the Year, Mitch Brindley Crew of the Year, Sportsman of the Year, Inductees to the ICSA Hall of Fame and the winner of the Leonard Fowle Trophy.


Stanford University took a historic win at the 2023 Open National Championship out of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy after four days of racing on the Long Island Sound. The Open National Championship was the last of three high-caliber spring College Sailing National Championships that took place over a marathon 11 days back to back. The Cardinal won with a 13-point lead above Yale University, and Harvard University rounded out the podium in third place behind Harvard by six points.

“We’re super overwhelmed,” said Stanford A Division Skipper, Michelle Lahrkamp. “We are a predominantly female team, and we did a great job these last few days getting everything out of every day; we never gave up, we had our heads in the game the whole time. We really wanted it, and I am wearing my pink shirt for all the girls out there – you can win a National Championship!”

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