ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy intercollegiate sailing team played host to three different in-conference events over the weekend, as the Faye Bennet MAISA Women's Singlehanded Championship, Chesapeake Invitational and Chesapeake Open all took place in Annapolis.
The first conference championship of the season, the Faye Bennet MAISA Women's Singlehanded Championship had 18 competitors from around the conference. Racing began in a nice northwesterly breeze on the Severn River, as six races were completed on Saturday before the wind became too light and variable to continue mid-afternoon. Sunday's racing took place in the mouth of the Severn near Tolly Point, with the remaining eight races scheduled before the 4 p.m. cutoff all finishing.
Freshman
Kate Zurinskas sailed consistently well throughout the weekend before a string of rough races on Sunday afternoon took her out of contention for a spot in the top-3, but she was able to regroup and win the final race to finish fifth overall. Junior
Izzy Fadullon was also sailing well in the lighter wind races and was poised to finish the event strong, but an injury forced her out of the last four races and she wound up 13th overall.
The Chesapeake Invitational competed on the same course as the Faye Bennet regatta, with the event featuring six teams sailing three boats each in one combined division. Navy wound up third overall, as junior
Cooper Walshe and sophomore
Ellie Alex finished fourth, sophomore
Nathan Smith and senior
Julia Christie were seventh and senior Trent Shaw and junior
Ryan Wahba came in 11th.
The Chesapeake Open was also on the same course and featured 18 individual boats competing from four schools, with Navy entering seven boats. Sophomore
Jack Welburn and junior
Linnea Forsberg came in second, with freshmen
Henry Allgeier and
Mary Dwyer following in third, junior
Tanner Kelly and sophomore
Darby Graham finished fifth, freshmen
Teddy Martin and
Eva Ottenbreit were seventh, sophomore
Ava Farley and seniors
Aubin Hattendorf and
Hunter Anderson were 11th, the group of junior
Robert Ziman, freshman
Spencer Dominguez, sophomore Ella Niehoff and Graham finished 12th, and sophomores
Margo Cicero and
Alex Brenia and freshmen
Josie Sherry and
Fiona Cullen came in 18th.
Next up for Navy are a pair of events Sept. 23-24, with the Intrepid Trophy in Annapolis and the Top Nine Regatta in Kings Point, N.Y.
