The cold and damp New England spring wasn't enough to keep the Embry Riddle University keelboat squad at bay this past weekend at the USCGA J/70 Invite as they faced a full spectrum of breeze from light to nuclear. The Eagles, led by skipper Mitchell Quinn (Jr., Little Silver, NJ) and teammates Jocelyn Nester (Jr., Springfield, IL), Andrew Lam (Fr., Annapolis, MD), and Kevin Martin (Jr., Seaside Park, NJ) and coached by Mario Avila, started slowly but by the third race of the event, started to dial in podium finishes. Over the course of the two day regatta against a very talented field of competitors including the host Coast Guard Academy, Tufts, URI, and Kings Point, the Embry Riddle team earned 8 overall podium finishes out of the 14 races including a bullet in race 8. Embry Riddle secured the final podium spot with a 2nd place finish in the final race on Sunday overtaking the Tufts squad for third place overall at the event and earned this week's SAISA Sailors of the Week! Congrats!
*** Munns and Hamelsky are the Open Sailors of the Week ***
*** McCarthy, Hamilton and Young are the Women's Sailors of the Week ***
This past weekend in SAISA featured state championship regattas in the Carolinas, Florida, and a combined Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia event, the first such events under the new, revised SAISA schedule. Hosted by the University of Tennessee after a late venue change, the Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia "TAG" Trophy regatta was won in impressive fashion by the Sewanee Tigers. Led by Heyward Main (Sr., Charleston, SC), Michael Edge (So., Raleigh, NC), Graham Cosby (Fr., Charleston, SC), and Kendall Buck (Jr., Fairhope, AL), the Sewanee Tigers delivered a perfect regatta with picket fences (all first-place finishes) in every race in both divisions. They even carried bullets into the 5th race of the regatta in A-Division before conditions deteriorated and B-Division was unable to complete a matching rotation. Winning both A and B-Divisions, and the overall regatta, the Sewanee squad secured the first TAG Trophy, debuted undefeated in college sailing, and earned SAISA Open Sailors of the Week!
*** Bragg and Clutterbuck are the Open Sailors of the Week ***
*** Bayless and Horangic are the Women's Sailors of the Week ***
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