The St. Mary’s College of Maryland sailing team opened the spring portion of their 2023-24 campaign this weekend (Mar. 2-3), competing at three regattas in the Mid-Atlantic region. St. Mary’s College garnered second-place finishes at the DC Team Race hosted by Georgetown and the Navy Team Race Invite while placing fourth at the Old Dominion University Women’s Team Race.
NAVY TEAM RACE INVITE
The 12th-ranked Seahawks finished Saturday action with a 9-3 record to take first in the team standings. SMCM went 4-1 in Round 1 as they notched a pair of perfect 1-2-3 finishes to defeat Ivy League opponents, Cornell University and Princeton University. In Round 2, St. Mary’s College picked up two more perfect 1-2-3 finishes to knock off Princeton once again as well as No. 10 U.S. Naval Academy.
SMCM began Round 3 on Saturday with a 2-0 mark, tallying its fifth 1-2-3 finish for the win over Hobart & William Smith (HWS) Colleges. The Seahawks completed Round 3 on Sunday, ending the round with a 4-1 mark and posting two more 1-2-3 finishes for wins over HWS and Princeton (for the third time).
HWS captured the Navy Team Invite with a 12-3 record while the Navy came in third with an 11-4 record.
Juniors Henry Haddon (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman) and Max Kleha (Huntington Beach, Calif./Mater Dei), sophomore Jonathan Weed (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck), and first-year Nathan Jensen (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln-Sudbury Regional) were the skippers this weekend while junior Brooke Bertrand (Costa Mesa, Calif./Orange Coast College), sophomore Emily Shioutakon(Rockville, Md./Good Counsel), and first-year Mary Govan (Charlottesville, Va./Albemarle) served as the crew.
DC TEAM RACE (at Georgetown)
St. Mary’s College finished Saturday in second place in the team standings with a 4-4 record. The Seahawks opened Round 1 with a strong 3-1 mark, including a 1-2-3 win over George Washington University. The tables flipped in Round 2 with the team beating Old Dominion University with a perfect 1-2-3 finish for a 1-3 record.
No Round 3 as there was no wind on Sunday. No. 8 Georgetown captured the DC Team Race with a 7-1 record followed by SMCM in second with a 4-4 mark and Cornell in third with a 4-4 record.
Competing at Georgetown were senior captain Madison Bashaw (Newport Beach, Calif./Newport Harbor) and juniors Charlie Anderson (Annapolis, Md./Key) and Owen Hennessey (Washington, D.C./Severn) as the skippers and seniors Rachel O’Neill(Gambrills, Md./South River) and Katherine Shermock (Columbia, Md./Long Reach) and junior captain Zoe Hoctor (Annapolis, Md./St. Mary’s) as the crew.
OLD DOMINION WOMEN’S TEAM RACE
SMCM ended Saturday in fifth place in the team standings with a 2-8 record. The Seahawks posted a 1-2-6 win over No. 16 Navy for a 1-4 mark in Round 1. Then they notched a 1-2-5 victory over the University of Wisconsin for a 1-4 record in Round 2.
Sunday featured a light northeast breeze that became patchy and shifty, resulting in races being recalled and restarted. The Seahawks posted a 2-3 record in Round 3 with wins over No. 16 Navy (1-3-5) and Wisconsin (1-2-3).
No. 10 University of Pennsylvania captured the ODU Women’s Team Race with a 13-2 record while No. 14 Georgetown finished second with a 12-3 record and the hosts in third with a 10-5 mark. St. Mary’s College placed fourth with a 4-11 log.
Skippers Lily Flack ’24 (Stonington, Conn./Marine Science Magnet), Cho-Cho Williams ’26 (Norfolk, Va./Granby), and Lina Carper ’27 (Carlsbad, Calif./Coronado) plus crew Lillian Newman ’25 (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck), Indiana Theurer ’25 (Virginia Beach, Va./Tidewater CC), Mary Hill ’27 (Poquoson, Va./Poquoson), and Grace Phillips ’27 (Stevensville, Md./Gunston) all made the trip down to ODU.
Up Next for the Seahawks
- Mar. 9-10 – St. Mary’s Team Race – St. Mary’s City, Md. (Teddy Turner Waterfront) – 10 am
- Mar. 9-10 – CNU Women’s Fleet Race – Newport News, Va. – 10 am
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