Brown Coed #3, Women #5 in Final National Rankings

Brown Qualifies for Atlantic Coast Championships, Finishes fourth at ICSA Sloop Nationals

The #6 nationally ranked coed team qualified for the Coed Atlantic Coast Championship with a sixth place finish at the Erwin Schell Trophy at MIT over the weekend of October 31-November 1. Led by William Brown '10, Theresa O'Neil '10, and Tim Eisen's '11 second place finish in B-division, the Bears were in a tight battle for fourth place throughout the 20-team event. The top seven New England schools qualified for the ACC's at Harvard on November 14-15. Brown finished second at the New England Freshmen Championship for the Nickerson Trophy at Boston University, just being edged out by Boston College.

The Sloop team of Fred Strammer, Mark Towill, Niki Osvalds '11, and Tommy Fink '13 finished fourth at the ICSA Sloop National Championship at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on October 23-25. The coed team finished fourth at the Sherman Hoyt Trophy on October 24-25 at Brown.

The #4 ranked women’s team finished fifth at the Victorian Coffee Urn Women’s Intersectional, October 31-November 1. The top eight New England teams qualified for the Women's Atlantic Coast Championship to be held November 14-15 at Brown.

Elizabeth Barry '11 and Fred Strammer '11 are headed to the ICSA Women's and Men's Single-handed National Championship, to be sailed November 6-8 in Corpus Christi, TX. Brown will also be competing at the Hap Moore Team Race Intersectional at Boston College, the Freshmen Intersectional at Boston University, and the Rhode Island State Champs at Salve Regina during the weekend of November 7-8.

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