The Rainbow Wahine finished 11th at the St. Mary’s Women’s Intersectional in St. Mary’s City, Md. this past weekend. All-Americans Molly O’Bryan and
Sarah Hitchcock earned 69 points for fifth place in the A division.
Renee DeCurtis and
Melody Torres earned 111 points for 15th place in the B division. St. Mary’s College won the nine-race regatta. Old Dominion and Georgetown came in second and third, respectively.
The University of Hawai`i coed sailing team also sailed this past weekend at the Truxton Umstead Intersectional in Annapolis, Md., where they finished 14th. Bryan Lake and Jennifer Warnock earned a 10th place finish in the A division. In the B division, Matt Stine and Sarah Reed finished 16th. In the singlehanded races, Steve Brown ended up in 15th place and Will Edwards finished in 10th place in the C and D divisions, respectively. Harvard won the 16-race regatta. Tufts and Old Dominion came in second and third, respectively.
The coed team is currently ranked fifth in the most recent Sailing World magazine college poll. The Rainbow Wahine are ranked ninth.
Next up for Hawai`i sailing is the St. Francis Yacht Club Intersectional in San Francisco April 6. Both the coed and Wahine teams are participating.
Results for the St. Mary’s Women’s Intersectional
1. St. Mary’s College
2. Old Dominion
3. Brown
4. Georgetown
5. Tufts
6. Hobart/ William Smith
7. Boston
8. Boston College
9. Dartmouth
10. Col. of Charleston
11. Hawai`i
12. Navy
13. Connecticut College
14. UC Irvine
15. USC
16. South Florida
17. Queens
18. Wisconsin