ICSA News

The 2022-2023 ICSA All-Academic team has been reviewed and selected. This year an impressive 277 student athletes have been named to the team. The ICSA All-Academic Sailing Team recognizes Juniors and Seniors who have participated as a competitor or alternate in seven regattas (2022-2023) and have a cumulative GPA of 3.3 or higher on a 4.0 scale.

The selections have been made for the College Sailing Fall National Championships. The Open and Women’s Singlehanded National Championships will be hosted by Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 11-12, 2023. The College Sailing Open Match Race National Championship will be hosted by the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina on November 3-5, 2023.

The National Championship Selection Committees are charged with selecting the most competitive field of At-Large Candidates for the National Championships. To be eligible, candidates must have competed in a corresponding Conference Championship in any ICSA conference. Selectors must honor the finishing order at any respective conference championship; to select the fourth-place sailor in a conference, they must also select the second and third place candidates. 

*** O'Brien and Schumann are the NEISA Women's Sailors of the Week ***

*** O'Keefe, Costikyan, Spriggs and Bruan are the NEISA Open Sailors of the Week *** 

Gusty and wet conditions greeted sailors to the Charles River for the Atlantic Coast Championship Open Qualifiers at Harvard and MIT, but this didn't stop the College of Charleston squad from delivering competitive finishes and qualifying for a spot in the ACC Finals. Congratulations to the Cougars' Noah Zittrer (So., Clear Falls, TX), Lucy Klempen (Sr., Kingshill, USVI), Emma Tallman (Sr., Torrance, CA), Aidan Iaconis (So., Greenwich, CT), Ben Dufour (So., Geneva, CH), Chloe Hudgins (Sr., Jensen Beach, FL) and Garrett Grenauer (Sr., Buffalo, NY) on securing SAISA Open Sailors of the Week with their strong performance.

Stanford University took the win at the 2023 Women’s Atlantic Coast Championship Finals out of the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club after two days of racing on the Eastern Long Island Sound. The Atlantic Coast Championship was the second event of a two stage series which began with stage one hosted by MAISA with two evenly seeded events one at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD and the other at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in historic St. Mary’s City. The Cardinal won with a commanding 37-point lead holding first place throughout the entire event. Boston College and Cornell University rounded out the podium with the home team Yale 12 points off the podium in 4th place.

*** Schmelz, Kalrson, and Escandon are the Women Sailors of the Week ***

*** McGranahan, Marlo, and Cabot are the Open Sailors of the Week ***

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On Weekend 4 of the Fall 2023 Season, the Women's Atlantic Coast Championship qualifiers were held at the US Naval Academy and St. Mary's College to determine who would compete in the ACC Women's Finals later this season at Yale. At Navy, the College of Charleston Cougars delivered a podium finish for 3rd overall earning a berth to ACC Women's Finals with A-Division Grace Squires (Sr., Worthington, OH), and Clara Murphy (Fr., Norfolk, VA) earning fourth in the division and the Cougars' B-Division sailors Emma Tallman (Sr., Torrance, CA), and Lucy Klempen (Sr., Kingshill, USVI) winning their division in impressive fashion. Congratulations to the Cougars women for earning SAISA Women's Sailors of the Week for week 4. At home the Cougars were also hosting the Charleston Fall Interconference Regatta where 9 cross-regional teams from SAISA and MAISA gathered to compete in an intense combined division event. College of Charleston sailors Brandon Geller (Sr., Anna Maria, FL), Brylie Schaubach (So., Norfolk, VA), Lawson Levine (Sr., Chicago, IL), and Andrea Melnik (Fr., Charleston, SC) won the competitive event and with the victory, earn SAISA Open Sailors of the Week honors for Week 4. (Not pictured above: Clara Murphy, Andrea Melnik)

***Hawkins and Baker are the NEISA Womens Sailors or the Week***

***Williams and Pohl have been named the NEISA Open Sailors of the Week***

On Weekend 3 of the Fall 2023 Season, SAISA held Match Race Conference Championships hosted by the College of Charleston where the Cougars secured a hard-fought regatta win over eight conference teams. The Cougars will represent SAISA at the ICSA Match Race National Championships in November. Congratulations to Axel Stordahl (Sr., Gig Harbor, WA), Lucy Klempen (Sr., Kingshill, USVI), Garrett Grenauer (Jr., Buffalo, NY), and Lawson Levine (Sr., Chicago, IL) for earning this week's SAISA Open Sailors of the Week for week 3.