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*** Agerup and Mooradian are the NEISA Co-ed Sailors of the Week***

***Klingler and Webb are the NEISA Women Sailors of the Week***

Boston University showed poise in trying conditions at Connecticut College

Boston University won the Coed Showcase Championship Finals hosted by Connecticut College in mostly light and uncertain conditions. Competitors waited on shore for much of the first day of competition before hitting the water for 11 total races between the two divisions on Saturday. The breeze on Saturday started from the SSW and sailors were hiking . However, as the sun set the breeze clocked right to the SW as the day got late. The heavy current and shifty breeze on the Thames made for tough work for the race committee. The final races of the day Saturday were sailed on extremely skewed courses due to the extreme ebb.

The breeze on the Severn wasn't the only thing ready to go at 10AM on Saturday as College of Charleston's Ali Toppa and Hannah Kinder started the Jen Harris Women's Showcase Finals with a bullet and a second putting the Cougars in the early lead. At the top fall showcase finals for women's sailing, the fleet was extremely deep and talented with some of the best women sailors in college competing. Charleston's Toppa and Kinder took the regatta lead into the first rotation and kept pace with the talented field finishing the event with their Cougar teammates just four points south of the podium in fifth. With the outstanding performance in Annapolis, Toppa and Kinder earn women's Sailors of the Week for Week 6. 

*** Jordan, Powers, Mulcahy, Sheridan are the NEISA Co-ed Sailors of the Week***

***Agerup and Mooradian are the NEISA Women Sailors of the Week***

The Women of Brown University stay atop women’s sailing in winning the Jen Harris Women's Showcase Finals

Brown University won the Jen Harris Women’s Showcase Finals held at the US Naval Academy in what was a truncated, 20 race event due to lack of wind. The Brown Bears showed their depth throughout the event as they were the only team to place in the top-4 in both the A and B Divisions. 

Brown is the reigning Women’s National Champion, winning last year’s main event in big breeze at home in Newport, RI. However, after this victory, at what is the equivalent of the Atlantic Coast Championship in medium to light conditions, Brown proved they are still the team to beat in all conditions.

Without just a few conference events on the schedule, college sailing is focused this week on interconference events and ICSA Showcase co-ed regattas. On the Thames River at Connecticut College, women's teams from across the US competed for the famed Stu Nelson Trophy in what could be considered a preview of the upcoming Women's Showcase events in MAISA. In nearly perfect conditions, the Bulls of the University of South Florida started strong in A-Division led by skipper Marina Barzaghi, and crews Carolina Rovira and Samantha Kappaz, this week's SAISA women's Sailors of the Week. Finishing day one on the heels of the Stanford Cardinal, the Bulls returned for Sunday driving for a podium finish. Barzaghi, Rovira, and Kappaz delivered six top-3 finishes during the regatta including 2 bullets and brought a third-place A-Division rank and an overall regatta fourth for the event back to St. Petersburg against a deep field of competitors.

*** Burnes and Wang are the NEISA Co-ed Sailors of the Week***

***Burn and Williams are the NEISA Women Sailors of the Week***

The Coed sailors qualify for the Coed Showcase Finals- The Fiske Harriman Sleigh at Connecticut College; Stanford and Harvard look strong before the Women’s Showcase Finals.

The United States Naval Academy won their side of the Coed Showcase Qualifiers, at home. The regatta was a full 36 race event and the drama extended throughout the event as Georgetown, the regatta leader from race 1B to race 17A were overtaken by Navy during the final set of the regatta. 

Navy’s success came as a team effort as sophomore phenoms, Joseph Hermus and Sally Johnson won A-Division narrowly over Sean Segerblom ‘20 and Annabelle Ayer ‘22 of Georgetown. Meanwhile, Parker Loftus ‘20 and Kimmie Leonard ‘22 of Navy finished the regatta with a 1,2,1,1,1 to spark Navy’s run to pass the Hoyas. Navy has now won the last four doublehanded, fleet race regattas sailed at home. 

As the fall regular conference season draws to a close, teams in SAISA North and SAISA South hit the water at the final division points regattas this past Saturday with championship qualifications in the balance. In the South Eckerd College secured the division title despite a late surge and points event win from USF. In the North Division, NC State won in Wilmington, earned the division title for the first time in program history, and are recognized as this week's SAISA Conference Sailors of the Week for Week 4.

*** Fox and Nelson are the NEISA Co-ed Sailors of the Week***

***Kaneti and Jakobson are the NEISA Women Sailors of the Week***