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The 2019 Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s series of National Championships began today in Newport, R.I. on Newport Harbor. The Sperry College Sailing Women’s Semifinal Championship hosted by Brown University with the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) also supported by the University of Rhode Island. The semifinals are the precursor and qualifying event for the Sperry College Sailing Women’s National Championship Finals, which will begin Thursday, May 23 at 10 a.m.

The semifinals are divided into two fleets, an Eastern and Western semifinal, each with 18 teams from across the nation. The top nine teams from each fleet will advance to the finals on Thursday. The competitors are racing on windward-leeward courses with four legs.

Today racing was in nice sunny conditions with cool winds from the west/northwest averaging around 10-20 knots through out the day. Sailors had to navigate a short difficult chop and an outgoing tide most of the day. The Western fleet sailed in Z420s and the Eastern fleet sailed in FJs.

The Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) three spring national championships, Sperry College Sailing Women’s National Semifinal and Final Championships, LaserPerformance College Sailing Team Race National Championship, and the Gill College Sailing National Semifinal and Final Championships start on Tuesday, May 21. The Women’s event will last for four days immediately followed by the Team Race championship on May 25, lasting for three days and the Coed championship on May 28, lasting for four days.

The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) and Inter-Scholastic Sailing Association (ISSA) invites the submittal of proposals to provide on-demand website programming and support services. These services shall commence after a contract is approved by ICSA and ISSA.

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Conference Championships Qualifies (and Eliminates) the Nation’s Top Teams as all eyes turn to Newport

Conference Championships for Coed Fleet Racing across the nation spiked blood pressures and showcased the best in the country as the top teams advance to the Semi-Finals and some top-15 teams are sent home for the season.

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2019 Coed All NEISA Team

***Baird, Nicolosi, Tobin and Lingos-Utley are the NEISA Coed Sailors of the Week***

Last weekend held the Women’s Conference Championships for five of the seven conferences while Coed and Team Race Championships took place in the South-east and the Northwest conferences. On top of that, a competitive interconference regatta served as a tuneup with many Coed Conference Championships set for next weekend.

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Rose, Arias, and Carrasco Earn Sailors of the Week Honors at SAISA Women’s Championship

This past weekend's SAISA Women's Conference Championship regatta brought the top women's teams in the conference to the Eckerd College waterfront where they were greeted by strong wind with gusts over 25. Conditions were challenging, but provided some sailors with the opportunity to make things happen on the race course. Dotted with past SAISA Sailors of the Week, this year's women's field was especially strong. With a bullet out of the gate, and then a long wait for improved conditions, Jacksonville University's Charlotte Rose and GiGi Arias were in a good position. As teams returned to the water after the hiatus, Rose and Arias found themselves in the middle of the fleet at the start of the second race. Through impressive downwind boat speed, and a healthy mix of smart and lucky decisions upwind, they were able to outpace the field for the race win. From there Rose and Arias, and later veteran JU sailor Ana Carrasco would finish the regatta with a wire-to-wire A-Division win securing this week's SAISA Women's Sailors of the Week. Rose, Arias, and Carrasco deliver the regatta low score with 9 points over 8 races, only giving up the picket fence to the hometown Tritons on the last race of the day. With their teammates securing the B-Division win, the Jacksonville Fins punched their ticket to Newport and win SAISA Women's Conference Champs for the first time in their program history. Congratulations to Jacksonville, as well as the women from the College of Charleston, Eckerd College, and the University of South Florida who will also represent SAISA in Newport at the ICSA Women's National Championships.   

2019 Women's All NEISA Team

Brown Women’s Team Race Team named NEISA Women’s Sailors of the Week

Yale University’s Shawn Harvey and Graceann Nicolosi named NEISA Coed Sailors of the Week