College Match Racing National Championship

The 2016-2017 College Sailing Match Racing Championship will be held November 18-20 in San Diego, CA. Hosted by San Diego Yacht Club, ten teams representing the seven college conferences will compete in J/22s. Previously a keelboat fleet race event, this is now the eighth running of the match racing format for the Shields Trophy.

The first winner of the event was Taylor Canfield (Boston College) who is now the #1 ranked match racer in the world. Nevin Snow (Georgetown) won the event twice, and has gone on to medal at the Youth Match Racing World Championship, win the Governor’s Cup twice and is the current reigning U.S. Match Racing Champion.

Reigning nationals champion Christophe Killian (College of Charleston), who has won the U.S. Youth Match Racing Championship twice, and represented the U.S. in the 2016 Youth World Match Racing Championship, will be defending his title.

List of Teams:

SAISA (South Atlantic)
• College of Charleston: Christophe Killian ’18, John Thompson ’18, Laura Masterson ’20, Howard Meyers ’17
• University of South Florida: Sean Cornell ’18, Brendan Feeney ’18, Scott Ewing ’18, Mandi Dickie ’18

NWICSA (Northwest)
• University of Washington: Kate Flanagan ’17, Rachel Cohen ’19, Athina Ebert ’17, Hayden Potter ’20

MAISA (Middle Atlantic)
• Hobart and William Smith Colleges: Greiner Hobbs ’18, Sam Hallowell ’16, Noah Barrengos ’18, Maya Weber ’20
• Georgetown University: AJ Reiter ’17, Meaghan MacRae ’18, Sean Segerblom ’20, Roger Dorr ’18

MCSA (Midwest)
• University of Wisconsin: Charles Bocklet ’17, James Sitter ’17, Benjamin Witman ’16, Indigo Leslie ’17

SEISA (Southeast)
• Texas A&M Galveston: John Hanna ’19, Haley Walker ’18, Ian Beck ’19, Jonathan Sager ’20

PCCSC (Pacific Coast)
• University of Southern California – Matthew Hecht ’16, Melissa Schem ’18, Paul Chyz ’18, Peter Wong ’18

NEISA (New England)
• Boston College – Scotty Sinks ’18, Erika Reineke ’17, Peter Lynn ’19, Harry Koeppel ’17
• Dartmouth University – Charles Lalumiere ’17, Nathaniel Greason ’17, Rebecca McElvain ’19, Madeline Cooney ’17

Event details – Facebook

Source: US Sailing Match Racing Committee, College Sailing