With the sunny skies holding off until the end of the weekend, members of both the co−ed and women's sailing teams, divided among a bevy of regattas, competed through harsh winds and cold temperatures en route to a slate of middle−of−the−pack finishes across the region.
At the President's Women's Intersectional at Boston University (BU) this weekend, the ninth−ranked women's sailing team saw blips of top−notch finishes but ultimately succumbed to inconsistency, finishing 11th overall, nestled comfortably with 219 total points.
Tufts' A Division boat finished 11th with 106 points, and though the unit ended the regatta with a third−place finish and had won another race, senior skipper Peggy Tautz and junior crew Sally Levinson were unable to score any other high finishes, placing above eighth just one additional time in the 13 total races.
Sophomore skipper Renee Gagne and classmate crew Midori Tanaka made up the B Division boat, scoring eight top−nine finishes. But, like their teammates, the pair finished inside the top five just twice en route to 113 points and a 10th−place overall showing.
At BU, the Jumbos finished 15 points behind Eckerd College, a squad Tufts is currently ranked five spots ahead of in the latest Sailing World coaches poll, and were beaten out handily by Dartmouth and Hobart and William Smith, two schools also behind the Jumbos in the national poll.
But the results were not disappointing across the board. At the Longfellow Bridge Invitational/Central Series Four at Harvard, members from the 10th−ranked co−ed sailing team finished an impressive seventh out of 16 schools, led by the B boat which took sixth place in its division.
The boat, manned by Tanaka, Gagne, senior Alexander Jahncke and sophomore Laura Lidell, did not finish outside of the top 10 once in the 13 total races, earning 71 points behind seven top−five showings. The boat finished in second and third one time each, in fourth twice and in fifth three times.
Though the A Division boat, which took seventh with 91 points, finished in 10th on three separate occasions, a strong stretch toward the end of the regatta helped propel seniors Owen Richardson and Erica Seipman, junior James Altreuter and sophomore Ruth Summers to three top−four finishes in the final four races.
Other results from the co−ed races at the Admiral Alymers Trophy at Mass Maritime and the Marchiando & Friis Trophies at MIT and Tufts were not available at press time.
The Jumbos will next hit the waters this weekend, when the co−ed unit will split between the Northeastern Dinghy Championships & CG Alumni Bowl at Conn. College and the Oberg Trophy at MIT by Northeastern University. The women's team will attend the Emily Wick & Shrew Trophies at the Coast Guard Academy.
