Yale Athletics

The Yale Sailing Team sent sailors to three different regattas this past weekend, marking a triumphant beginning to their competition season. 

The co-ed team competed as a split squad — one crew at the Pine Trophy Regatta hosted by Coast Guard and another group at the Harry Anderson Jr. Regatta, which they hosted. The Pine Trophy crew clinched first place while two boats sent to the Harry Anderson Jr. Regatta clinched silver and bronze. The women’s team came in seventh for the Toni Deutsch Trophy hosted by MIT.

Yale’s match race team for the Pine Trophy in New London consisted of team captain Jack Egan ’25 as skipper and Mathias Reimer ’27, Alexander Adams ’26, and Emma Cowles ’25 as crew. Their victory, amidst the shifty and unpredictable sailing conditions of the Coast Guard’s course, also earns the Bulldogs a spot to compete in the New England Match Race Championship later this September.

Concurrently, the team hosted and competed on home waters for the Harry Anderson Trophy. The Elis put forth four boats in total, with two taking home second and third-place finishes.

“The weekend brought big swells, which made for some great surfing on the downwinds,” Ximena Escobar ’25, the women’s team captain, said to the News. “We had four teams competing, ultimately taking second and third place at the regatta, but more importantly, we had two freshmen sail their first college sailing regatta: Annabel Woodworth ’28, who sailed both days and Audrey Foley ’28, who hopped in the boat on Sunday!”

Finally, competing on the Charles River at the Toni Deutsch Regatta, the all women’s team finished seventh overall with 213 total points. In the ‘A’ division, Julia Miller ’26 and Dorothy Mendelblatt ’28 finished second — only two points behind the first-place team.

Serving as crew alongside the freshman skipper, Miller noted the tricky conditions on the Charles.

“On Saturday it was pretty light and shifty, which took some adjusting to,” Miller said. “Sunday brought stronger wind from a more stable direction and both teams did really well with first place finishes in both divisions. Overall it was a successful first regatta and a good learning experience for both freshman skippers.”

Next weekend, both the women’s and the co-ed team will compete at Brown in singlehanded sailing. The co-ed team will also compete at MIT for the Hatch Brown Trophy. Last year at the Hatch Brown, the Elis finished first overall, narrowly defeating Harvard by five points.

The women’s team will also compete for the Regis Trophy at Harvard, which they won in both 2021 and 2022.