CAMBRIDGE, MA—4/12/17 – The NEISA Awards Committee has announced the 2017 Coed Sailor of the Year, the Women’s Sailor of the Year, the Babineau Crew of the Year and the Women’s Crew of the Year watch lists plus nominees for Coed and Women’s Rookie of the Year. These lists include the top sailors from NEISA based on results to date.
The NEISA Coed and Women’s Sailors of the Year annually honors the best skippers in the conference. Often NEISA Sailors of the Year are finalists and/or winners of the ICSA Sailor of the Year Awards. The Babineau Trophy, named for Coast Guard Academy sailor and Cadet Julie Babineau, recognizes the most outstanding crew. The Women’s Crew of the Year honors the best crew in Women’s competitions.
Honorees are selected by the coaches of the NEISA Awards Committee. The committee considers the competitive record of each candidate. In determining the quantity and quality of a record, the committee has particular regard for the following factors: how the record compares to those of fellow competitors, the quality of competition in which the record was achieved, results achieved competing with different skippers and crews, whether the record spans the Fall and/or Spring seasons, and how the record compares to those of All-NEISA sailors selected in previous years. The committee does not consider the candidates’ records in previous years, or the candidates’ records in non-college events.
COED SAILOR OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST
Nicholas Baird, 2019, Yale University
Nikole Barnes, 2017, Coast Guard Academy
Ian Barrows, 2017, Yale University
Ty Ingram, 2018, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Joseph Kiss, 2017, Yale University
Harry Koeppel, 2017, Boston College
Ravi Parent, 2018, Boston University
WOMEN’S SAILOR OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST
Nikole Barnes, 2017, Coast Guard Academy
Rachel Bryer, 2017, University of Rhode Island
Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick, 2017, Brown University
Casey Klingler, 2018, Yale University
Erika Reineke, 2017, Boston College
Dana Rohde, 2018, Coast Guard Academy
BABINEAU CREW OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST
Natalya Doris, 2017, Yale University
Hannah Lynn, 2017, Boston College
Anna Morin, 2019, Coast Guard Academy
Graceann Nicolosi, 2020, Yale University
Clara Robertson, 2017, Yale University
Hannah Scanlon, 2018, University of Rhode Island
Sameena Shaffeeullah, 2019, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WOMEN’S CREW OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST
Maxine De Havenon, 2019, Brown University
Natalya Doris, 2017, Yale University
Meredith Harrington, 2018, Boston University
Hannah Scanlon, 2018, University of Rhode Island
COED ROOKIE OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST
Graceann Nicolosi, 2020, Yale University
Scott Rasmussen, 2020, Boston College
WOMEN’S ROOKIE OF THE YEAR WATCH LIST
Christine Klingler, 2020, Yale University
Louisa Nordstrom, 2020, Yale University
Hannah Steadman, 2020, Brown University
The NEISA Awards Committee will announce the Women’s All-NEISA team at the conclusion of the NEISA Women’s Championship for the Jerry Reed Trophy hosted by Brown University on April 23. The Coed All-NEISA team will be named at the end of racing at the NEISA Dinghy Championship for the Coast Guard Alumni Bowl hosted by Boston College on April 30th.
About NEISA
The New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) is the organizing authority for sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout New England and in some parts of Canada. NEISA is one of seven conferences around the country that comprise College Sailing, the governing body of Intercollegiate Sailing. Currently boasting over fifty member schools, NEISA seeks to encourage and advance sailboat racing, in all its variations through weekly competitions throughout the spring and the fall. Education, training, student leadership, and sportsmanship have been the cornerstones of NEISA since its inception in Cambridge, MA in 1949. Visit neisa.collegesailing.org to learn more.
Past Coed Sailors of the Year
2008 Kyle Kovacs '08, Harvard University
2009 Brian Kamilar '09, Boston College
2010 Thomas Barrows '10, Yale University
2011 Cy Thompson ’11, Roger Williams University
2012
2013 Alec Anderson ’13, Roger Williams University
2014 Graham Landy ’15, Yale University
2015 Graham Landy ’15, Yale University
2016 Ian Barrows ’17 Yale University
Past Women’s Sailors of the Year
2008 Kaity Storck '08, Tufts University
2009 Jane Macky '09, Yale University
2010
2011 Annie Haeger '12, Boston College
2012 Amy Hawkins '12, University of Rhode Island
2013 Deirdre Lambert '15, Dartmouth
2014 Morgan Kiss '15, Yale University
2015 Erika Reineke ’16, Boston College
2016 Nikole Barnes ‘17, Coast Guard Academy
Former Babineau Crews of the Year
2008 Andrew Schneider '09, Boston College
2009 Andrew Schneider '09, Boston College
2010 Coco Solsvig '10, University of Vermont
2011 Emily Massa ’12, Boston College
2012
2013 Pat Hession ’13, Boston College
2014 Katherine Gaumond ’15 Yale University
2015 Elizabeth Barnard ’15, Boston College
2016 Sydney Karnovsky ’16, Harvard University