United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics

Boston, MA--(4/13/09)--The Coast Guard Academy Women's Sailing Team finished 7th out of 13 teams at the President's Trophy hosted by Boston University on the Charles River. Despite cold, rainy and at times miserable conditions, the race committee completed a full rotation, getting in all 13 races in each division. In A-Division, Krysta Rohde '11 and Elise Maher '11 finished 8th with 99 teams. In B-Division, Jenn Proctor '11 and Margaret Woodbridge '10 finished 5th with 71 points. Proctor and Woodbridge also won four out of the 13 races sailed, the most wins in their division. Next weekend the Women's Team will compete at the Emily Wick/Sloop Shrew Trophy at the Coast Guard Academy, which is a promotional event for 2009 that attracted 20 teams from all over the country.

The Coed Sailing Team also competed in Boston at the Friis/Marchiando Team Race hosted by Tufts and MIT. The young Coast Guard team struggled against other team's more experienced squads. Although the Bears sailed hard in close races all the way to the finish, each race ultimately was won by the opponent and the Bears suffered an 0-14 record for the weekend. Sailing for CGA were Sam Ingham '11, Jon Duffet '11, Ian Oviatt '10, Chris Grabe '10, Cezar Gomez '10, and Tanya Cuprak '11. The team will look to learn from the experiences gained this past weekend and move forward to the Coed New England Championship next weekend. That event will be hosted by Boston College and Harvard University on Boston Harbor.

New London, CT--(4/6/09)--The Coast Guard Academy and Connecticut College co-hosted one of the biggest and most competitive team race regattas of the spring season the past weekend, the Southern New England Team Race.
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Intercollegiate Sailing - Bears 5th at Veitor Trophy, 1st at Home Team Race

Newport, RI--(3/23/08)--The Coast Guard Academy Women's Sailing Team finished 5th out of 19 teams at the Veitor Trophy hosted by Salve Regina University. On Saturday, teams were greeted with sunny skies, cold temperatures, and a beautiful Northerly breeze that allowed for great racing. The race committee was able to get off four races in each division before the northerly died and racing was cancelled for the day. On Sunday the breeze was much shiftier and inconsistent which made for tricky sailing on Naragansett Bay. Six more races per division were sailed. Krysta Rohde '11 and Kirstin Haas '10 sailed A Division. Jenn Proctor '11 and Margaret Woodbridge '10 sailed B Division.

CGA offshore sailors aboard their Catalina 37 at the Port of L.A. Harbor Cup.

Los Angeles, CA--(3/16/09)--This past weekend, seven cadets from the Coast Guard Academy’s offshore sailing team competed in the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup Regatta, the only intercollegiate big boat regatta on the west coast. For the first event of the season, the team practiced for two days prior to the official event; it was great to get out on the water in sunny California after a long winter of no sailing in New London.

Racing began on Saturday with a two and a half hour delay as the race committee waited for breeze. Eventually a light southeasterly breeze filled in with three foot swell and a strong current flowing west. The boat end of the starting line was very hotly contested since all of the teams expected the breeze to veer to the right. Coast Guard got caught in the melee at the committee boat a couple of times, and had some poor starts. The team demonstrated good boat speed, but didn’t finish as well as they hoped. After the first day of racing Maine Maritime led the standings, with Coast Guard in sixth, posting finishes of 7, 3, 7, 5, followed by the Navy in seventh.