NWISA Team Racing Districts

NWISA Team Racing Districts

We’re a little tardy getting this out. The NWISA Team Racing Championships were held the weekend before last, and Burke Thomas reports that “there was lots of good 3 on 3 team racing.” It sure looks like it from these pictures borrowed from The Dome Studio’s Facebook Page. Where was this kind of racing when I was a kid? I’d highly recommend looking at these photos if you want to get excited about the next generation. The Orcas High School Vikings were the big winners in the Team Race Championship and the Gig Harbor High School Tides were the JV Team Race Districts.

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Team Race Championship

Saturday, May 5:

Sailors were greeted with clear skies, northerly breeze, and flat water. Racing got underway about 20 minutes late, but then four flights of varsity sailors cranked through the qualifying round by mid-afternoon. The top four teams met in the first final round, and the remaining seven teams sailed a number of races in the consolation round before wrapping up around 7pm.

Sunday, May 6:

Warm sunny weather prevailed for the day, but the winds were light. After an initial postponement ashore, racing continued in an attempt to complete another final round. Unfortunately there was not enough breeze to finish those races before the time limit.

Final Results

# School Team Rec. Skippers Crews
1 Orcas Orcas High School Vikings 13/0 Ronan Rankin ’19 Miette Woolworth ’21
Dominick Wareham ’19 Millie Kau ’19
Maggie Toombs ’18 Ronan Kau ’19
Landon Carter ’21
Levi Moss ’19
2 Olympia Olympia High School Bears 11/2 Max Miller ’18 Kevin Hicks ’19
Owen Timms ’19 Evan Krug ’19
Erin Pamplin ’20 Ciara McClanahan ’19
Isabelle Stokesberry Miles-Paulson ’18
3 Sehome Sehome High School Mariners 8/5 Cedric Keneipp ’19 Ajax Robinson ’21
Lera Anders ’18 Leila Jones ’20
Emma Powell ’21 Peyton Nienaber ’18
Mallory Hood ’18
4 Bainbridge Bainbridge High School Spartans 7/6 Olivia Mitchell ’18 Banning Jones ’19
Sophia Kasper ’18 Hunter Johnston ’20
Zach Cooper ’20 Sophie Crandell ’18
* 5 OES Oregon Episcopal School Aardvarks 5/5 Claire Siegel-Wilson ’18 Gavin Waterson ’21
Megan Waller ’20 Justin Zhou ’21
Ronan Waterson ’18 Chris Reekie ’19
** 6 Charles Wright Charles Wright High School Tarriers 5/5 Alyosha Strum-Palerm ’18 Nicholas Lee ’20
Jack Corddry ’19 Carson Schauer ’19 *
Hayden Flaskerud ’20 Demetri Lord ’19 *
b 7 Capital Capital High School Cougars 5/5 Annie Buelt ’20 Caroline Hurley ’20
Orion Bird ’17 Ann Li ’20
Joy Brennan ’20 Zachary Cowan ’20
8 North Kitsap North Kitsap High School Dogfish 4/6 Nathan Grundmeier ’19 Anna Schroeder ’18
Cole Fox ’18 Sam Davenport ’21
Anna Sherry ’19 Isabelle Loverich ’19
9 Anacortes Anacortes High School Seahawks 2/8 Liam Patrick ’18 Anna Morrow ’18
Christopher Warmuth ’18 Satone Haratani ’19
Lauren McClintock ’20 Carson Lindholm ’20
10 Nathan Hale HS Nathan Hale High School Raiders 1/9 Anna Wohnoutka ’18 Zoe Plattner ’20
Reilly Hearne ’18 Jack Rovner ’20
Margot Watts ’19 Riley Kapp ’21
Colette Royer ’18
11 Oak Harbor Oak Harbor High School Wildcats 0/10 Jordan Wood-Pina ’18 Aiden Wright ’21
Jenny Danielson ’20 Virginia Blatto ’18
Willa Weinsheimer ’20 Lenika Aguilar ’18

JV Team Race Districts

Summary

Saturday, May 5:

Pat Mitchell and his crew from the Bainbridge Island program ran 55 races on a sunny day with northerly breeze. Three flights of FJs and a flight of V15s kept the silver fleet busy rotating all day.

Sunday, May 6:

Sunny warm conditions unfortunately did not also provide very much wind. Just a few races were completed before the time limit at 3pm.

Rankings

Note: Preliminary results; teams ranked by winning percentage.

# School Team Rec. Skippers Crews
1 Gig Harbor Gig Harbor High School Tides 8/0 Perham Black ’18 Nolan Loverich ’21
Ryan Squires ’18 Emily Smith ’21
Axel Stordahl ’20 Von Zimmerman Naomi ’21
* 2 Lincoln OR Lincoln High School – Portland, OR Cardinals 8/1 Casey Picket ’20 Ella Notdurft ’21
Pierre Carr ’18 Ethan Stein ’20
Anisha Arcott ’18 Jack Pederson ’20
* 2 Olympia Olympia High School Bears 8/1 Ella Hubbard ’22 Hatcher Cox ’21
Sam Bonauto ’21 Peter Kelleher ’22
Ian Connolly ’21 Rizley Cox ’20
* 4 Bainbridge Bainbridge High School Spartans 6/3 Max Doane ’20 Parker Hutchinson ’20
Lindsay Campbell ’20 Camden Lee ’19
Dane Petrakis ’21 Gus Beer ’19
Parker Hutchinson ’20 Trevor Royset ’21
Camden Lee ’19 Noah Maher ’19
Chase Van Derrick ’21
Jack Bennett ’21
* 4 Central Kitsap Central Kitsap High School Cougars 6/3 Niko Twilla ’18 Becca Sharpe ’18
Tyler Nolasco ’19 Jeffrey Scholfield ’23
Cormac Burke ’22 Kyra Bowlby ’19
Andre Alvarado ’20 Lilyan Coleman ’21
Claire Jablonski ’19 Cormac Burke ’22
Claire Jablonski ’19
Cody Kmecheck ’18
6 Roosevelt Roosevelt High School Rough Riders 5/3 Miles Williams ’20 Abbie Chipps ’21
Van Senseney ’19 Gus Rindal ’21
Sam Kimmel ’20 Emilia Garcia-Bompadre ’19
7 Inglemoor Inglemoor High School Vikings 5/4 Zach Liang ’18 Tian Marchello ’20
Alden McGonagle ’21 Johnny Satterlee ’19
Erik Anderson ’21 Annelisa Ayars ’20
** 8 Benson Polytechnic High School Benson Polytechnic 4/5 Aaron Danziger ’21 Ace Burton ’20
Conrad Miller ’21 Mikaela Lee ’18
Daniel Duyvestein ’21 Lauren Watt ’20
b 9 Bellingham Bellingham High School Raiders 4/5
10 Squalicum Squalicum High School Storm 2/6
11 Oak Harbor Oak Harbor High School Wildcats 2/7 Thomas Buys ’22 Liam Chapman ’22
Ben Servatius ’22 Cooper Billiter ’22
Quentin Vazquez ’21 Artemisia Wangler ’21
12 Kingston Kingston High School Varsity 1/7 Morgan Chandler ’20 Ian McConkey ’21
Annelise Pardee ’19 Andre Alvarado ’20
Noah Pluska ’19 James Huffman ’23
Santiago Portillo ’18 Viktor Taylor ’23
Viktor Taylor ’23 Unknown Sailor5 ’17 *
Unknown Sailor5 ’17 * Claire Jablonski ’19
* 13 Ingraham Ingraham High School Rams 1/8 Alex Hubbard ’19 Everett Rendon ’21 *
Aragorn Crozier ’20 Kira Blumhagen ’21
Max Kauffman ’18 Bridget Boyle ’18
* 13 North Thurston North Thurston High School Rams 1/8 Joey Koval ’20 Jasper Navarro Hummel ’22
Macy Bergford ’18 Lindsey Graham ’18
Ellie Davis ’21

NWISA Team Race District Championship

NWISA Team Race District Championship

Eight Varsity and 14 JV high school sailing teams descended on Sail Sand Point May 4-6 to take part in the NWISA 3 on 3 Team Race Championships, with a berth to the National Championships up for grabs. The NWISA Team Race Championship along with the NWISA Fleet Race Championship hosted on Orcas Island April 29 & 30 are the two final district high school regattas for the 2016-2017 school year and a culmination of hours and hours of practice and hard work put in by the teams. A total of 18 district regattas during the fall and spring NWISA sailing seasons were completed leading into the championship regattas, and that is a lot of racing.

Check out these photos by Jim Skeel. And there are lots more on his Facebook page. Thanks, Jim for allowing us to use them and promote high school sailing.

Sail Sand Point hosted the event, and did a fantastic job organizing the 36 FJ’s making up six fleets racing on two digital N courses. The SSP pier provided spectacular viewing of the racing, fast rotations and a big lunch BBQ for all. Light winds both mornings turned into 4-9 knot northerlies by mid-afternoon both days making for perfect team racing conditions. A total of 137 races were completed between the two courses for the weekend. That is a lot of team racing and a big shout out to Nino Johnson Varsity PRO, Scot Boye JV PRO, the judges and all the volunteers who made it all happen. The high school sailors showed all of us who were watching how much they have improved their team racing skills the last few years, with a lot of close races decided on the final beat. It was so close in fact that after 61 races on the varsity course, it all came down to the last race of the day on Sunday, Orcas versus Olympia when the two teams tied for the regatta lead with 13-3 records. Orcas was able to win the final race and the regatta and are now headed to Northfolk, VA for the ISSA Team Race National Championships, “The Baker Trophy.” Olympia placed second and Bainbridge grabbed third. Regatta report and scores can be found here:

http://scores.hssailing.org/s17/nwisa-team-race-districts/

http://scores.hssailing.org/s17/nwisa-team-race-jv/

Photos can be found at https://www.facebook.com/pg/nwisasailing/photos/?tab=album&album_id=949687911840488

Ed. Note: The amazing high school racing scene here is largely due to the work of Burke Thomas.