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2008-2009 SEASON WRAP-UP The USF sailing team qualified for 5 out of 6 ICSA National Championships: In ACC competition, results were: Congratulations to Mitch Hall, Tim King, Simon Sanders, Darby Smith, and David Weaks for their victory at Sloops and for the first-ever USF national title. Congratulations to graduating senior Kim Witkowski for her victory at the SAISA Women's Singlehanded Championships. Congratulations to Darby Smith for being named to the 2009 US Sailing team in 470's. USF WINS FIRST EVER NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP USF hosted the ICSA Sloop Championships November 21-23, 2008 and sailed to victory against nine other teams! The sailing was extremely close, and at the end of racing, USF was tied on points with SUNY Maritime, but won the tie-breaker. Mitch Hall '10, Tim King '09, Simon Sanders '10, Darby Smith '11, and David Weaks '10 were cheered to victory by friends and family, as spectators had an excellent opportunity to observe the racing from the St. Petersburg Pier. Coach Gonzalo Crivello, in only his second year of coaching USF was thrown in afterwards, thankful it was Tampa Bay, and not a northern venue. Thanks to members of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, especially Regatta Chair Tom Wallace and PRO Tom Farquhar for their numerous volunteer hours, and to USF team members Adam DePrimo, Danielle DeLaire, Jake Moore, Nathan Hoover, Christine Sayler, Erin McKie, Kristen Britt, Cat Brown, and Matt Gardiner for their assistance. WEEKEND 9 – NOVEMBER 8-9 SAISA Sloop Championships were hosted jointly by USF and the St. Petersburg YC in Sonars. Eight teams competed, and five races were sailed, averaging 27 minutes, all windward leewards of varying laps. Winds were 4 to 6 knots, from the east and southeast for the first races, then from the northwest and west for the final two races once the seabreeze filled in.
Thanks to Adam DePrimo, Zack Marks, Rachael Silverstein, Kirsten Hunt, and Danielle DeLaire for their help. The victory qualifies USF for the ICSA Sloop Championships, which will also be hosted by USF and SPYC on November 21-23! 1. USF 2 1 1 2 2 8 Sean Ross and Margaret Spears sailed in A division, and Britton Steele and Tristen Vail sailed in B division, each scoring 81 points and earning 8th place in each division. Not surprisingly the Bulls also ended up 8th overall. 1. Roger Williams 25 82 107
WEEKEND 8, November 1, 2008. While most of the USF sailing team took the weekend off, seven sailors assisted with the SAISA SP-4 high school regatta, and seven sailors sailed at the SAISA Fall Dinghy Coed Championships.
Thanks to USF team members Adam DePrimo line sight, Justin Ahearn and Christine Saylor mark set, Rachael Silverstein and Zack Marks, judges, Kirsten Hunt and Danielle Delaire, scoring, and Waterfront Director Zac Oppenheim for transporting boats on Friday. A new feature was the instant on-line scoring updates available via web-enabled cell phones after every set! Seven USF sailors traveled to Charleston, SC for the SAISA Co-ed Fall Championships. Racing began at around 10am on the Cooper River. The breeze started out of the North and was a steady 8+ knots, remaining steady through 6 races, but as it got warmer it started to fade and the ebb tide really started to haul. By 1pm it was impossible to race. After a few hours of delay ashore, the remaining two races of the series were started "around the corner" near Crab Bank. By then the tide was slack and the sea breeze slowly filled. Mitch Hall and Hillary Noble sailed six out of the nine A division races, while Sean Ross and Simon Sanders sailed the other three, finishing 3rd in the division. Tim King and Darby Smith sailed all the B division races, finishing 2nd. Added together, the scores placed USF in a tie with Eckerd for 2nd overall, but Ecked won the tie-breaker, bumping USF down to 3rd. Host College of Charleston won the event easily. The top three teams advance to the Atlantic Coast Championships November 15-16, 2008, hosted by Hobart-William Smith, in upstate New York. 1. Charleston A 2 5 1 2 2 1 1 5 1 20 B 1 1 1 1 3 2 2 3 1 15 2. Eckerd A 1 1 3 1 1 2 3 1 4 17 B 5 6 2 7 2 4 6 2 2 36 3. South Florida A 5 2 2 5 3 3 2 4 3 29 B 2 3 3 3 4 1 3 1 4 24 4. Miami A 4 4 4 3 4 6 5 3 5 38 B 3 2 7 5 6 6 1 4 3 37 5. Florida A 3 3 5 6 6 5 4 2 2 36 B 4 5 4 4 5 5 5 8 6 46 6. Clemson A 7 9 6 8 7 8 8 6 8 67 B 6 4 6 2 1 3 4 5 5 36 7. Rollins A 6 6 7 4 5 4 6 7 9 54 B 7 8 5 8 8 9 DNS 6 8 69 8. Tennessee A 9 7 8 9 9 9 9 9 7 76 B 8 7 8 6 7 7 7 7 7 64 9. Duke A 8 8 9 7 8 7 7 8 6 68 B 9 9 9 9 9 8 DNS 9 9 81 WEEK 7 - October 25-26, 2008 ICSA SINGLEHANDED NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS! USF Sailing weekend #7, October 25-26, was highlighted by having two team members competing in the ICSA Singlehanded National Championships! Kimberly Witkowski ’09 and Zack Marks ‘11 braved the near-freezing conditions up at Cornell University in Ithica, NY. With first-day high temperatures only in the 40’s, and winds in the 18-20 knot range, the wind chill factor made sailing miserable for the warm weather sailors and coach Gonzalo Crivello. After 18 races were sailed against the top eighteen qualifiers in the country, Kim finished 11th among the women, just 2 points out of a top-ten finish. Zack finished 9th in the men’s competition, including a victory in race 10. 1. Cy Thompson Roger Williams University 75 1. Annie Haeger Boston College 45
Possibly the most intense single weekend in USF sailing team history, Weekend #6, October 18-19, 2008, proved challenging both logistically and on the water. Nineteen team members traveled to four different venues in New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maryland, and Georgia to compete! And a wild week of practice culminates in the sinking and subsequent recovery of FJ-1 The Women’s team raced at the Yale Women’s Intersectional in New Haven, CT. The wind was generally good, with some very strong gusts, but extremely shifty. Kim Witkowski and Christine Saylor were solidly mid-fleet against some of the best competition in college sailing, finishing 11th in A division. If not for a rigging problem with the jib sail, they would have been top ten! Sophomores Rachael Silverstein and Steph Reynolds had difficulties on the starting line. With good starts they had excellent single digit finishes, but otherwise struggled, ending up 16th in B division. Combining the scores, USF finished 16th overall out of 19 teams. A B TOT 1. St Mary's 74 62 136 2. Boston College 57 94 151 3. Charleston 83 92 175 4. Yale 85 99 184 5. Harvard 80 107 187 6. Brown 118 85 203 7. Coast Guard 111 111 222 8. Old Dominion 140 90 230 9. URI 106 129 235 10. Tufts 136 105 241 11. Dartmouth 136 113 249 12. Connecticut Coll 140 118 258 13. MIT 126 133 259 14. Navy 153 113 266 15. Boston Univ 136 140 276 16. USF 135 144 279 17. Georgetown 123 171 294 18. UVM 156 181 337 19. MMA 192 197 389 Similar conditions greeted the sailors at the Navy Fall Intersectional in Annapolis, MD, one of the most prestigious events of the fall season. Single-handed sailors Mitch Hall and Zack Marks sailed well, finishing 4th and 6th respectively in their divisions. Tim King sailed with Margaret Spears and Justin Ahearn and ended up 16th in A division, while Britton Steele and Darby Smith were 17th in B division. Overall the USF sailors were 11th, a good finish in the twenty-team event. Huge thanks to the Steele family for housing the team for the second week in a row! A B C D TOT 1. ST MARYS 103 163 165 132 563 2. BOSTON COLL 140 112 237 93 582 3. CHARLESTON 171 170 160 99 600 4. GEORGETOWN 209 122 117 155 603 5. NAVY 165 150 187 116 618 6. HOBART/WMSMITH 191 134 152 147 624 7. ROG WILLIAMS 175 142 98 228 643 8. YALE 131 190 132 225 678 9. HARVARD 222 179 157 164 722 10. NY MARITIME 148 154 215 219 736 11. SOUTH FLORIDA 249 266 156 122 793 12. ODU 188 245 132 234 799 13. STANFORD 195 213 241 172 821 14. KP 240 257 235 221 953 15. WASHINGTON COLL 117 224 291 339 971 16. VERMONT 304 235 195 284 1018 17. FLORIDA 272 315 348 263 1198 18. U/PENN 248 258 389 368 1263 19. FLORIDA ATLANTIC 379 348 291 262 1280 20. MICHIGAN 349 360 281 358 1348 In the final SAISA South Points event of the year, USF sailors traveled to Georgia Tech. Jon Ellington and Hillary Noble sailed to 6th in A division, just one point out of a top five finish. Adam DePrimo and Tristen Vail were 5th in B division, and overall the team was 6th. A B TOT 1. Eckerd 13 17 30 2. Florida State 24 13 37 3. Georgia Tech 26 12 38 4. Florida 18 37 55 5. Rollins 19 38 57 6. USF 27 35 62 7. Georgia Tech JV 41 25 66 8. Florida JV 48 39 87 Finally, Waterfront Director Zac Oppenheim accompanied USF sailors to Dartmouth, where the shifty, puffy conditions of the lake and the cold weather proved intimidating. Sean Ross and Kirsten Hunt were 16th in A division, but managed several top ten races, including a victory. Chris Keimig and Julia Francoeur were 19th in B division. USF sailors overall finished 19th in the twenty boat fleet. A B TOT 1. Boston College 29 68 97 2. Tufts 73 49 122 3. Boston University 69 54 123 4. Brown 78 52 130 5. St. Mary's College 74 118 192 6. Georgetown 97 98 195 7. MIT 119 77 196 8. Connecticut College 110 89 199 9. U. Vermont 104 97 201 10. Yale 79 134 213 11. Coll. of Charleston 100 117 217 12. Roger Williams 105 117 222 13. Bowdoin 106 125 231 14. Salve Regina 138 93 231 15. Hobart/Wm Smith 139 94 233 16. Dartmouth 108 133 241 17. U. Rhode Island 141 103 244 18. Coast Guard 122 127 249 19. U. South Florida 124 161 285 20. Maine Maritime 191 183 374
WEEK 4 - October 4-5, 2008 Week 4 was a relatively quiet weekend for USF sailors, as only two regattas were scheduled.
Sophomores Zack Marks and Diana Cabili sailed their first double-handed regatta this season, finishing 2nd in A division with finishes of 2-6-4-1-1-3-6-2 in the 10 boat fleet. Matt Gardiner and Margaret Spears won B division with finishes of 1-1-2-4-1-1-4-4, with a thrilling final set duel against UF to determine the overall positions. Ultimately USF sailors placed second, just two points behind host UF. 1. UF 16 25 41 Juniors Mitch Hall and Hillary Noble sailed in A division and found the conditions not at all to their liking, finishing 19th out of the 20 teams participating. Tim King and Simon Sanders sailed in B division, finishing 13th, winning one race and placing second in another. Overall USF was 17th, already working hard at practice for better results next weekend. 1. Boston College 78 29 107 WEEK 3 - September 27-28, 2008 It was another busy weekend for USF sailors!
Kim advances to the ICSA Single-handed National Championship which will be hosted by Cornell University October 24-26, 2008, along with the second and third place finishers, both from the College of Charleston. On Sunday, the SAISA Conference Women’s Dinghy Championships were hosted by cross-town rivals Eckerd College. The top three teams from this event advance to the Atlantic Coast Championships November 15-16. Kim again sailed well, teamed with sophomores Christine Saylor and Kirsten Hunt. They finished 2nd in B division, just one point out of first. In A division, Rachael Silverstein sailed with sophomores Stephanie Reynolds and Diana Cabili, and finished 4th. Combining the scores, USF finished 3rd overall, narrowly beating University of Florida for the final qualifying spot. USF sailors will be joining winner College of Charleston and runner-up Eckerd at the ACC regatta hosted by Georgetown. Also on Saturday, the SAISA South Points series continued. The third event was hosted by Rolllins at Winter Haven, FL, and sailed on Lake Virginia. USF sailors dominated this event, winning both A division (Sean Ross and Christine Saylor) and B division (Britton Steele and Margaret Spears). The JV team (Adam DePrimo and Tristen Vail in A, Jon Ellington and Julia Francoeur in B) finished just below mid-fleet. Finally, the SAISA Men's Singlehanded Championships were hosted by College of Charleston. USF sailors Zack Marks and Mitch Hall ended up 3rd and 5th, respectively, but unfortunately only the two sailors qualified for Nationals. Matt Gardiner finished 11th and Justin Ahearn 13th in the fourteen boat fleet. A HUGE thank you to Jim Stull for transporting the sailors to Charleston and helping with the logistics! WEEK 2 - September 20-21, 2008 USF sailing team members traveled a combined 22,000 miles this weekend, competing at four different regattas! WEEK 1 - September 13-14, 2008 Our first week of competions was very successful, both on and off the water. JOIN US! Are you new to USF and interested in joining a sports team? Previous sailing experience is not required for crewing positions but you should be athletic and comfortable around the water. Visit our recruiting link and fill out a recruit form for more info.
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Racing was very tight, with locals USF and Eckerd College trading firsts and seconds. Going into the final race, the score was tied. USF sailors Mitch Hall, Tim King, Simon Sanders, Darby Smith and alternate Dave Weaks saw their practice pay off, as their slight edge in boat speed and boat handling enabled them to beat Eckerd by a narrow two-point margin overall. 
The SP-4 regatta was billed as a preview of the upcoming spring high school SAISA District Champs and ICSA Mallory Champs. Co-hosted by USF and the St. Petersburg Sailing Center, A fleet raced FJs and B fleet raced 420s. Fourteen teams competed, and fourteen races were sailed in each division, all modified trapezoids, averaging 14 minutes in length. A healthy 10 knot wind from the NE slowly died to about 5 knots by the end of racing. Tide flow was quite strong, ebbing in the morning and flooding in the afternoon, resulting in numerous general recalls.
The SAISA (South Atlantic) Conference Women’s Single-handed Championship event was hosted at USF – St. Petersburg on Saturday, September 27. Making the most of the home water advantage, senior Kim Witkowski won the event. Ten sailors competed in the very light winds, leaving the dock at 10 am and returning from the final race at 7 pm – a very long day for all. Other USF sailors competing were junior Hillary Noble (7th) and sophomore Darby Smith (9th). 
Up at Dartmouth, the Women’s team finished 15th out of 18 teams. Kristen Britt and Kirsten Hunt (sailing in her first Intersectional regatta) were 15th in A division, while Rachael Silverstein and Ash Lanes were 12th in B division. Again, winds were predominantly light and shifty on the lake, and the USF sailors struggled in the fickle breeze, to say nothing of the 37 degree overnight low temperatures!