Boston College Athletics
Sailing Team Placed Second at National Championship
May 31, 2015 | Sailing
Newport, RI -
The Boston College sailing team placed second at the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship on Narragansett Bay. This event is the second of three collegiate sailing national championships co-hosted by Brown University, Salve Regina University and New York Yacht Club this spring. After three days of racing Yale University is the national champion and winner of the Walter C. Wood Trophy for the third year in a row.
Today the teams were fighting to advance into the final four round. Due to the competitiveness of each team in this event, no one went through undefeated. Yale finished the top eight round with three losses, Boston College with two, Stanford University with four and College of Charleston with two. Then again in the final four everyone took a hit, but Yale came out on top.
There were six races total in the final four and the winds had picked up to gusts around 20 knots, so a lot of teams were making substitutions and putting their heavy air crews in. Boston College went into the round strong winning their first two races, but lost their last race against Yale. Boston College finished the event in second place.
"We did pretty well today," says Greg Wilkinson, head coach for Boston College. "It was great conditions today, we like it windy," he says. But in the end Wilkinson applauds Yale for their win.
"The credit goes to Yale, they not only beat us in the event, but they beat us in every race we sailed against them," Wilkinson says.
The Eagles were represented on the water by Will Bailey, Erika Reineke, Raul Rios, Katherine Wysocki, Elizabeth Barnard, Allison Ferraris, Katja Sertl, Alex Palfrey, Christopher Dwyer and Domenic Bove.
The Eagles coed team will take to the water tomorrow as the competition for the final sailin National Championship is up for grabs.
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