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Today was the last day of the Gill College Sailing Coed National Championship, the final of three high caliber spring college sailing national championships that were hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy with support from Georgetown University, the Annapolis Yacht Club, Severn Sailing Association, Eastport Yacht Club and the Annapolis Sailing School. The Naval Academy came out on top on their home waters to win the national title and the Henry A. Morss Memorial Trophy.

Racing was completed today in the College Sailing Team Race National Championship hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. with support from local clubs, Severn Sailing Association, Annapolis Yacht Club, Annapolis Sailing School and Eastport Yacht Club, who helped store boats and teams and Georgetown University for helping to supply FJs and Old Dominion University with a ref boat. This is the second of three, spring college sailing national championships hosted by the Naval Academy. The top twelve collegiate team racing teams in the nation competed for the national title and the Walter C. Wood Trophy and the host school, Navy, came away the winners.

ANNAPOLIS, M.D. (May 18, 2021) – The Women’s College Sailing National Championships start tomorrow, Wednesday, May 19th, and will run through the 20th, hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy. The two remaining spring Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Championships, the LaserPerformance College Sailing Team Race Nationals and the Gill College Sailing Dinghy Nationals, will follow in the coming weeks.

The 2021 ICSA Spring Season officially has a championship slate as five national championship regattas are set to be sailed throughout the month of May and into June. College Sailing has cautiously resumed small, local events, primarily along the Eastern Seaboard with the ultimate goal of returning to full sized regattas to finish the season with a newly crowned champion. 

Though some of the specific details have yet to be completely ironed out, the Naval Academy will provide their impressive fleet with assistance from surrounding yacht clubs to run the three double-handed regattas that staple the spring season. The yacht clubs that will be assisting are: Annapolis Yacht Club, Severn Sailing Association, Eastport Yacht Club and Annapolis Sailing School. 

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ANNAPOLIS, M.D. (JUNE 13, 2020) – In a second virtual awards show on the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Facebook page this evening the individual honors for the Quantum Women’s Sailor of the Year, Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year and Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award were announced with the new inductees to the ICSA Hall of Fame, which will be added to the ICSA Hall of Fame display located in the Robert Crown Center at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

ANNAPOLIS, M.D. (June 12, 2020) – This evening in a Facebook live broadcast on the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) page a virtual awards ceremony took place announcing the ICSA 2019-20 All America Team. The names of the winners will be added to the ICSA Hall of Fame displayed at the Robert Crown Center at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

A committee of representatives from the various conferences in the ICSA selects the ICSA All America Team. This year’s committee is: MAISA: Ian Burman (chair), Brian Clancy, MCSA: Geoff Pedrick, NEISA: David Thompson, Bill Healy, PCCSC: Brian Swingly, SAISA: Ward Cromwell, SEISA: Charles Higgins.

To select an All American skipper, the committee evaluates a competitor based on their competitive record in inter-conference competition as well as conference and national championships. The committee analyzes how this record compares to fellow competitors, the quality of the competition the record was achieved in, and results achieved competing with different crews, the span of the record over the fall and spring seasons, and how the record compares to previous All American winners. 

Evaluating using these criterion presented a little challenge this year for the committee due to the spring sailing season cut short by COVID-19.

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. (November 10, 2019) – The LaserPerformance Men’s and Women’s Singlehanded National Championships, co-hosted by Santa Barbara Yacht Club and the University of California Santa Barbara wrapped up today with Leo Boucher (West River, Md.), a sophomore at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, winning the Men’s Championship and Sophia Reineke (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), a junior at Boston College, wining the Women’s Championship.

The championships included the top 18 men and top 18 women singlehanded sailors in the nation. LaserPerformance, the title sponsor, provided full rig Lasers and Laser Radials for the events. Marlow Ropes was a supporting sponsor for the events. 

The LaserPerformance Men’s and Women’s Singlehanded National Championships, co-hosted by Santa Barbara Yacht Club and the University of California Santa Barbara are set to begin Friday, November 8 with registration, boat assignment and a competitors meeting. Racing will take place Saturday, November 9 and Sunday, November 10.

The championships include the top 18 men and 18 women singlehanded sailors in the nation. At least one male and female sailor has qualified from each of the seven collegiate sailing conferences to compete in this prestigious event. The regatta will take place out of the Santa Barbara YC and the sailing area will be in the Santa Barbara Channel, south of the yacht club, the course is viewable from either the end of Stearns Wharf, or the Santa Barbara Harbor Breakwater.

The Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Match Race National Championship for the Cornelius Shields, Sr. Trophy was completed today after three days of racing. The event began on Friday, November 1, although due to strong winds (steady 25-30 knots) racing was canceled in the afternoon, and got underway Saturday morning. After two days of challenging competition, Stanford University came away the winner.

The regatta was hosted by Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead, Mass. with support from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Racing took place in Sonars in and around Marblehead Harbor. Ten college sailing teams qualified to compete in the championship having advanced from their own conference qualifiers. Each team had four crew members one of which was required to be female.