Georgetown sailing capped a remarkable three-day stretch by winning the Open Atlantic Coast Championships Round 1 at the U.S. Naval Academy and claiming the 2026 MAISA Match Race Championship at Kings Point. The Hoyas topped an 18-team showcase fleet by 12 points at the ACCs, then swept through the Intrepid Trophy field unbeaten to punch their ticket to the ICSA Match Race National Championship in Newport Beach, California, on November 14-15.
At the Open Atlantic Coast Championships, Georgetown tallied 105 points, finishing 12 clear of runner-up Boston College at 117 and 15 ahead of third-place MIT at 120. Yale and Navy tied at 130, with Yale taking fourth on a head-to-head tiebreaker. Each division sailed 10 races across a weekend that tested competitors with wildly unpredictable conditions.
Saturday’s northeast breeze was fickle, with only a couple of races attempted before the wind filled in around 3:30 p.m. Each division then completed six races in 5 to 9 knots. Sunday’s forecast called for 28 to 40 knots, but the actual range was just 2.8 to 8 knots. Four more races were completed in moderate northeast wind before the breeze dropped, rain moved in, and racing was called.
In the A Division, Peter Barnard skippered with Teddy Stoldt crewing, scoring 73 points for fourth in division. The pair won Races 3, 6, and 8 and added a fourth in Race 4, finishing one point ahead of Boston College’s A boat at 74 and staying in contact with division winner MIT at 61.
The B Division belonged to Peter Herlihy and crew Scarlett Harris, whose 32 points were the lowest B-division score in the entire 18-team fleet, 10 points better than Navy and 11 better than Boston College. Herlihy and Harris won three races, added seconds in Races 4 and 9, and never finished worse than eighth. Eight additional Hoyas traveled as reserves: Leyla Amjad, Anna Brzezinski, Jack Duffy, Lucy Jervis, Owen Kohut, Fynn Olsen, Pierce Olsen, and Ellie Smith.
Back in Washington, Georgetown hosted both halves of the Oyster Bowl on the Potomac. In the coed regatta, Navy took the title with 153 points, followed by Penn at 190, Hobart and William Smith at 200, and Fordham at 204. Georgetown placed fifth with 226, nine points ahead of Old Dominion and clear of St. Mary’s at 262. Fourteen races were sailed in each division.
Saturday racing began at 12:30 p.m. in light easterly wind inside the Washington Sailing Marina Lagoon. As the tide dropped, the fleet shifted to Hains Point, where the northeasterly filled to 6 to 12 mph, shifty with current in play. Ten races were completed by 5:15 p.m. The regatta was run as fully umpired fleet racing. A sail-tracking service built by Georgetown undergraduate Poshu Ng, called RaceSense, tracked Saturday’s coed races. Sunday brought a strong north-northeasterly around 12 mph with driving rain, and racing wrapped up before noon.
In the coed A Division, Jake Julien skippered with Sophia Skrivanich crewing, finishing on 126 points, seventh in division. Their best work came late with a fourth in Race 12 and a third in Race 13, following an earlier third in Race 7 and fourth in Race 3. In the B Division, Conrad Cook skippered with Lia Nafe crewing for 100 points, fifth in division and a single point out of fourth. Their closing stretch was impressive, featuring a race win in Race 9, thirds in Races 10 and 11, and a second in the final race.
Fordham won the women’s Oyster Bowl with 82 points, ahead of Navy at 95, Penn at 99, and St. Mary’s at 136. Georgetown finished fifth with 139, three points behind St. Mary’s. Ten races were sailed in each division, with the women’s regatta completed entirely on Saturday. Results remain pending final confirmation on Techscore.
The women sailed in the same Saturday sequence as the coed fleet, with light easterly air in the lagoon giving way to 6 to 12 mph of shifty northeasterly at Hains Point under fully umpired fleet racing. In the A Division, Abigail Chang skippered with Irene Lin crewing and posted 46 points, second in division, just one point behind Navy at 45 and four ahead of St. Mary’s at 50. Chang and Lin won the opening race and closed with a 4-3-2 over the last three, adding seconds in Races 3 and 7. In the B Division, Audrey Smith and Lucy Fleckenstein split the boat, with Smith skippering in Races 1 and 5 through 7 and Fleckenstein skippering in Races 2 through 4 and 8 through 10. The all-freshmen pairing scored 93 points.
The Intrepid Trophy at Kings Point was sailed on Monday in J/70s, having been postponed weeks earlier by a nor’easter. Georgetown finished first in the five-team MAISA Match Race Championship ahead of Navy, host Kings Point, St. Mary’s, and Fordham. The breeze was a moderate northerly that varied in strength before shifting left and strengthening during the final races.
Herlihy skippered with Barnard, Duffy, Maddie Rode, and Kohut aboard. The Hoyas went 4-0 in the opening round, swept the Merchant Marine Academy 2-0 in the semifinals, and then took the winner-take-all finals against Navy with a commanding 2-0 victory, winning each start and extending their lead comfortably.
Standout performances defined the weekend. Herlihy and Harris’s 32-point B-division total at the ACCs accounted for most of Georgetown’s 12-point winning margin. Both Georgetown boats finished inside the top five of their division, with Barnard and Stoldt fourth in A and Herlihy and Harris first in B, making Georgetown the only team with a division win and a top-four finish in the other.
Chang and Lin’s 46 points in the women’s A division fell a single point short of Navy’s 45 across 10 races. Four members of the Class of 2030 were in boats across the three days: Smith and Fleckenstein sailed the full women’s B division as a freshman pairing, Skrivanich crewed the coed A division, and Rode was part of the match race crew that won the MAISA championship.
Herlihy skippered the winning B-division boat at the ACCs on Saturday and Sunday and then took the helm of the match race entry on Monday. Barnard, Duffy, and Kohut were on the Georgetown roster at both events. Cook and Nafe’s late surge of 1-3-3 in Races 9 through 11 and a second in the final race brought them within one point of fourth in division.
Full results, race-by-race scores, and sailor lineups for every regatta are posted at scores.collegesailing.org.
