A fourth-place finish at the NEISA Women's Team Race Championship highlighted the weekend for the MIT sailing team, which competed in a total of three regattas over the weekend.
NEISA WOMEN'S TEAM RACE CHAMPIONSHIP (LEGLER TROPHY) | PROVIDENCE, R.I | 4th of 10
- MIT collected a record of 9-8. The Engineers opened the competition with a 6-3 record and followed with a 3-2 record in the second round against the top six teams. They closed with an 0-3 record against the top-three finishers.
- Junior Brooke Barry (West Hartford, Conn.), senior Brooke Schmelz (Monmouth Beach, N.J.), and senior Lucy Brock (Austin, Texas) were the skippers with senior Mercedes Escandon (Brick, N.J.), first year Tamsin Horne (Broomfield, Colo.), sophomore Elliott Chalcraft (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), and senior Shayne Bersin on the crew (Port Washington, N.Y.).
THOMPSON TROPHY | NEW LONDON, Conn. | 6th of 7
- The Engineers finished the two-day regatta with a 7-11 record.
- MIT opened with a 3-3 record in round one and followed with a 2-4 record in rounds two and three.
- Skippers grad student Sam Bruce (Annapolis, Md.), senior Julius Heitkoetter (Austin, Texas), and first year Will Kulas (Jensen Beach, Fla.), crew of first year Ryan Hoffman (Darien, Conn.), sophomore Ellie Pinto (Chicago, Ill.), senior Yitian Zhu (Katy, Texas), senior Samantha Karlson (Groton, Conn.), sophomore Adé Larsen (Rye, N.Y.), and junior Lucas Escandon (Brick, N.J.).
OBERG TROPHY | BOSTON, Mass. | 8th of 17
- The Saturday racing was cancelled due to poor racing conditions.
- MIT totaled 142 total points across all three divisions.
- The A Division boat of sophomore Emma Wang (McLean, Va.) and first year Christine Keedy Brown (Miami, Fla.) finished in eighth with 48 points. They finished in the top 10 in five of six races.
- First Years Sophia Woodbury (Sarasota, Fla.) and Natalie Hatzigeorgiou (Sammamish, Wash.) finished in 12th in the B Division with 63 points including a fifth-place finish.
- C Division boat of first years Karya Basaraner (Izmir, Turkey) and Katelyn Battacharia (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.) took fourth with 31 points. They totaled four top five finishes out of the six races.
UP NEXT:
- The Engineers will race at the Boston Dinghy Cup Fleet Race as well as the Open New England Fleet Race Championship and the NEISA Women's Fleet Race Championship next weekend, April 19-20.
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