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.