Boston College Athletics
Women's Sailing Earns First-Ever Conference Championship
April 21, 2008 | Sailing
April 21, 2008
Chestnut Hill, MA - For the first time in the program's history, the Boston College women's sailing team won the NEISA Conference Championship. The eighth-ranked Eagles topped a strong field of 14 at Yale University this weekend.
Leigh Kempton and Emily Flint got off to a rocky start in their first two A Division races, scoring a twelfth and a tenth. Kempton and Flint then went on to win four of the next six races to help BC build an early lead.
In B Division, the consistent sailing of Martha Pitt and Lily Beck solidified the Eagles place at the top of the leader board. Kempton/Flint went on to win A Division, and with Pitt/Beck second in B Division.
BC won the regatta by a comfortable twenty point margin over Tufts. The win qualifies BC for the ICSA Women's National Championships in Newport, RI, May 26-28.
The coed sailing team had a successful weekend as well, coming off its Conference Championship win last weekend. The Eagles captured the Thompson Trophy at Connecticut College where Reed Johnson and Julie Howe finished second in A Division with freshman skipper Tyler Sinks and junior crew Lauren Gillooly winning B Division.
At the Morris Intersectional at BU, the team of Halsey Richartz-Katy Nastro and Charles Bayer-Quinn Ziatyk finished second in a filed of 14. Adam Roberts and Carrie Amarante won A Division en route to BC's 8th place finish at the Admiral's Cup at King's Point.
The coed team travels to Hobart next weekend for the semifinal of the ICSA Coed National Championship.
