Links to Results from the Season

Sailing World Rankings

War Memorial Results (3rd Place)

Kings Point Dingy Open Results (1st Place)

Atlantic Coast Championship Results

Hood Trophy (6th Place)

Penn Sailing Results & News

This was a phenomenal season for the Penn Sailing Team. Not only did we more than double the size of our team but we also climbed as high as 11th in the Sailing World national rankings before settling into 15th place as our Fall season ended!

We traveled to 15 regattas this season and finished our season with very strong results. Many weekends we fielded two and even three teams. In addition to a strong 6th place finish at the prestigious Hood Trophy at Tufts, we won the Kings Point Dingy Open and then finished in 3rd place at the MAISA Championship War Memorial Regatta. We even fielded our first ever Women's team that competed in the very competitive Navy Fall Women's regatta. To finish the season, we competed in the Atlantic Coast Championship in St. Petersburg, Florida. We are looking to continue our impressive performance in the Spring with an even stronger roster. Be sure to look out for our Spring newsletter. Below you can find links to the complete results.

We could not have done this without your strong and continued support. Over the summer, we completed construction of our new docks that now fit all nine boats. We also purchased a new Evinrude outboard engine for our coach boat. Towards the end of the season, Steve Keen, on of the top speed coaches, was able to spend a few weeks coaching us before our big regattas. Skip Swikart, our alumni adviser, is currently organizing a fundraising campaign that will allow us to continue to travel and draw the talented sailors and coaches that have helped make our team as successful as it is today. He can be contacted at swik3@aol.com for more information.

Finally, I am proud to announce that the Doug Lotz and Kelley Millane are the new captains of the Penn Sailing Team.

Thank you for all the support. Go Quakers!

Penn Sailing News:

Penn Sailing News:

The Quakers have ended their fall season with a respectable showing in the toughest regatta of the semester, the Atlantic Coast Championships held in St Petersburg, FL at Eckerd College. Penn finished 14th and every school that finished above the Quakers was nationally ranked above our squad. The results are below. Current national rankings can be seen by clicking here: . Of the top 20, only Penn and Boston University are Club programs. Penn finishes the semester nationally ranked 15th and was ranked or mentioned in every ranking period except one, a record which is the envy of every club program and a majority of the ICSA varsity programs.

In other sailing news, former 12 time national champion and Penn Sailing Varsity Captain and letter winner Cory Fisher Sertl (C'80) is in 3rd place in the USSailing Women's Keelboat Championship. More info can be found here . Interestingly, right behind Cory is 2008 U. S. Olympian Anna Tunnicliffe.

UPenn Sailing Ranked 11th Nationally!

As of October 31, 2007, UPenn, following our great performances at both Kings Point and War Memorial, is ranked 11th overall in the national sailing world rankings! This places us among the top varsity programs in the country! Be sure to watch our performance at ACCs in Florida.

War Memorial 3rd Place!

Penn finished the War Memorial in 3rd place overall, easily qualifying for the Atlantic Coast Championship on Nov 10th and 11th! Both days were breezy and the competition was very challenging. Garth Fasano and Kelley Millane won "A" division. Pat Curran, Bri Morgan and Doug Lotz all had a strong performance in "B" division. Overall, we finished ahead of many ranked schools and varsity programs.

Here are the complete results.

Penn Sailing Wins KP Dingy Open!

Garth Fasano and Kelley Millane won A division with a total of 22 points over 13 races. Pat Curran and Bri Morgan won a tiebreaker for first place in B division with 29 points over 13 races. Overall, Penn came in first place with 51 points, 5 points ahead of second places.

Check out the complete results.

Next weekend, Penn will be sailing at the War Memorial Championship Regatta at New York Maritime.

KP Dingy Open 2nd After First Day

Pat Curran, Bri Morgan, Garth Fasano and Kelley Millane are in 2nd place overall after the first day with 40 points, just 3 points out of first place.

One Weekend, Three Regattas

This past weekend was another important one for the Penn Sailing Team. We had 15 people sailing at three different regattas.

For the second time, our women's team sailed at the Naval Academy in the three division Navy Fall regatta. Amanda Johnson and Katie Buzby sailed A division, Bri Morgan and Amanda Vecchione sailed in B division and Kelley Millane sailed in a Laser Radial.

Another team was in Hampton Virginia and finished 4th out of 10. Doug Lotz and Matt Luongo sailed A division and Alec Ofsevit and Christine Roche sailed in B division.

Finally, at Delaware we came in 3rd out of 8. Mike Schnitt and Elana Lev/ Brittany Cummins sailed A, while Jake Rosenberg and Stacey Toseland sailed in B.

This coming weekend we are sailing at Central #2 at Washington College and the 4 division regatta Navy Fall at the Naval Academy.

Princeton Women's Regatta Recap

This past weekend marks a great milestone for Penn Sailing with our participation in our first ever Women's Regatta.

Senior Christine Roche, Junior Katie Buzby, and Freshmen Amanda Johnson and Amanda Vecchione all competed at the regatta held at Princeton's yacht club in Perth Amboy, NJ.

Conditions were very light the first day, but the team did extraordinarily well, with Amanda and Katie finishing first in their division, and Amanda V and Christine finishing 3rd in one of their races. The second day proved more difficult for the team, with shifty conditions and a very short race course. Overall, the team ended up 5th- a great accomplishment for our first ever women's team!

-Katie Buzby

Philly Fleet Race

This weekend, Septemeber 29th and 30th, we are hosting the Philly Fleet Race at the Corinthian Yacht Club. Eight teams from up and down the East Coast will be attending.

If any alumni are in the area, you are more than welcome to attend.

Team who are traveling here, if you have questions, feel free to contact me at aofsevit@sas.upenn.edu.

See you this weekend.

Alec

Pat Curran Qualifies for U.S. Laser Olympic Trials

This past weekend Pat Curran ('08) raced lasers in Westport, CT earning a coveted spot to race at the upcoming U.S. Olympic Trials. Pat respectfully declined the offer, deciding to focus on his academics and college sailing. Pat used the opportunity race against other Olympic Trials competitors to practice for the MAISA Singlehanded Championship that he will sail at the Naval Academy September 29-30.

Central #1 at OCC Report

This weekend our team traveled to the Toms River Yacht Club to race in the Central #1 regatta hosted by Ocean County College.

On Saturday, a cold front brought high winds with gusts reaching 25 knots. Sailing in A Division, Amanda Johnson (’11) and Bri Morgan (’08), whose combined height was just over 10 feet and combined weight toped the scale at 220 lbs, made an outstanding achievement working through the day’s challenging conditions.

Sunday, had lighter winds starting from the North and clocking right through out the day, resulting in a shifty shore breeze. This made for exceptionally tricky conditions. In B Division, Garth Fasano (’08) and Kelley Millane (’09) finished the day with six straight bullets. Amanda Vecchione (’11) crewed in A division while Bri ran the half marathon in Philadelphia setting a personal best.

The team finished 3rd overall, 9th in A division, and 1st in B division, thus qualifying us for the War Memorial Regatta later this season. Also supporting the team at this regatta were alumni Skip Swikart, Drew Seibert (’56), and a member of the class of 1957. Thank you for all your support!

Events

We are very excited to get this season underway. Below is this week's schedule.

Be sure to stop by our table at the Student Activities Fair on Tuesday, September 4th between 12pm and 4pm.

Also, our first meeting will be on Thursday, September 6th.

Our first practice will be on Friday, September 7th at 3pm.

You can email me at aofsevit@sas.upenn.edu for more information about any of these events or for information about the team.

Preseason Ranked 18th!

I am proud to report that we are currently ranked 18th nationally going into the Fall season! Below is an excerpt from the full article in Sailing World.

"U/Pennsylvania will once again have a very strong coed team. Led by Pat Curran and Garth Fasano the Penn team will almost certainly be in the top 20 all year and has a chance to break into the top 5. Penn narrowly missed a chance to compete at Nationals last spring but with the new format they should be a lock to make it to the Nationals this season."

Also check out the complete rankings

Visiting Penn

If you are a prospective student, I want to encourage you to come visit us in the Fall. We will take you around campus, bring you to a class and you can sail with us during practice. Be sure to fill out the recruiting form on the website and we will get in touch with you. See you in the Fall!

The Beginning of Penn Sailing courtesy of Bill Callahan

When I came to Penn in 1948 there was no active sailing program. I heard, from a fraternity brother, Roy Robinson, that it was possible to sail at other schools since we had no boats. Roy had done this on occasion. We were able to go to Princeton, Annapolis, George Washington and Kings Point to participate in regattas. By my sophomore year, we had added a number of sailors and I remember Charley Stewart, Chuck Evans,Warren Eve from Bermuda, Austin Heath, Julian Magnus and Bud Halpert as the "regulars" who were very active. As I indicated previously we were very fortunate to have Dr.Britton Chance as a faculty advisor( as recantly as 2001, at age 88, he was still a staff member at Penn) and, through his efforts and financial help, we were able to buy our first boats, the sloop rigged Fairey Fireflies from England. They were far superior to the single sail dinghies most clubs used so we had lots of visitors when our program became known. Locally, Drexel sailed with us frequently. When we first got our boats we sailed on the river from boathouse row surrounded by rowers but after one year we moved to the Cooper River Yacht Club in Camden where we were made to feel at home and benefitted from a much nicer, sailing oriented situation. I'm not sure how long Cooper River remained as a base but I certainly enjoyed it. When I left in '52, the club was very active and I' m very pleased to see how well it has survived.

Bill Callahan

Schedule

Check out our packed schedule in the Fall with 15 scheduled regattas including big boats, single-handed and Women's regattas!

Results

Full results for the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 seasons have been posted on the News and Results page.

America's Trophy

A solid success. Besides having a great time, we beat two top 20 ranked teams and had a shot at qualifying for nationals. We sailed only 4 people the whole time through varying conditions compared to other teams that qualified for nationals using several skippers and crews. Overall, we did better than our team has done since 1976 and we expect to do even better with a deeper team next year.

America Trophy

UPenn finished 6th at the America Trophy, our most competitive MAISA regatta! Congratulations to Garth Fasano, Kelley Millane, Pat Curran and Bri Morgan for sailing extremely well and finishing just 3 points out of 5th!

Alumni Support

We are launching a new capital campaign and we have received questions about where to send donations. Thank you very much for your continued support!

PLEASE SEND DONATIONS TO:

Penn Sailing Team
c/o Allen Pendleton
Pottruck Health and Fitness Center
Department of Recreation
University of Pennsylvania
3701 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

MAKE PAYABLE TO: The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
MEMO: Penn Sailing Team

Awards

We had our final banquet on April 13th. The following awards were given out...

Best Skipper - Pat Curran - Pat has sailed very well this year. He is always on the water practicing and sails frequently during the summer.

Best Crew - Bri Morgan - Bri came to Penn not planning to sail, however, she quickly secured a spot on our A team. She sails nearly every weekend and is our current social chair.

Most Improved - Doug Lotz - Doug started his first semester freshman year crewing. He quickly became a skipper and even sailed Lasers in Annapolis. With two years left he is vying for a spot on the A team.

Most Dedicated - Caroline Keogh - Caroline was the captain as a sophomore and has not stopped contributing to the team since then. Whether she is skippering Lasers, crewing or the center of attention at social functions she is always helping out the team.

Mike Smeets and Tom Digiano Award for Drunken Debauchery - Kelley Millane...

America's Trophy

At the end of the first day of sailing, A and B raced 4 sets and UPenn is in 5th place overall!