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2024-2025 Sailing Roster

Sophia Shaeffer

Sophia Shaeffer

  • Height:
    5-8
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Coronado, Calif.

Summary

Biography

2024-25 (Senior)

  • Earned All-PCCSC honors as a crew.
  • Sailed in eight regattas for the women’s team, and seven for the coed team, primarily as a crew.
  • Helped lead UH to capture the Jeff Simon Women’s Regatta, sailing four races as a skipper and two as a crew.
  • Part of the UH squads that finished runner-up at the Stoney Burke Intersectional, PCCSC Women’s Fall Championship, the PCCSC Open Team Race Championship and the PCCSC Women’s Fleet and Team Race Championships.
  • Placed fifth at the PCCSC Open Fleet Race Championship racing alongside skipper Everett McAvoy.
  • Competed in the ICSA Women’s Fleet Race National Semifinals, sailing five races alongside Malia Johnson and placing 14th in the B Division.

2023-24 (Junior)

  • Served as crew in eight total regattas - four coed and four on the women’s side.
  • Helped UH capture the Jeff Simon Women’s Regatta, while crewing in the B division.
  • Part of the UH squads that finished runner-up at the PCCSC Women’s Fall Championship and the Bryson Women’s Intersectional.
  • Competed at the ICSA Open Fleet Race National Semifinals, sailing in 10 combined races in the A and B divisions.
2022-23 (Sophomore)
  • Earned All-PCCSC Crew honors.
  • Sailed in nine women’s regattas in both the A and B divisions.
  • Helped UH capture the Jeff Simon Women’s Regatta, while topping the B division.
  • Also part of the UH squads that finished runner-up at the Bryson Women’s Invitational and PCCSC fleet and team race championships.
  • Member of the Rainbow Wahine squad that competed in the semifinals of the ICSA Women’s National Championship in King’s Port, N.Y.
2021-22 (Freshman)
  • Sailed in a total of five regattas.
  • Made UH debut at the Stoney Burke Intersectional, helping UH claim the women’s division of the regatta.
  • Also art of the UH team that won the Jeff Simon Women’s Regatta, crewing in the B division.
  • Helped UH claim a berth into the ICSA National semifinals with a runner-up finish in the PCSC Fleet Race Championship.
Prep
  • A 2021 graduate of Coronado High School in California.
  • Earned three letters in sailing.
  • Given the Jimmer Award for best crew.
  • Member of the Coronado Yacht Club Junior Sailing Team.
  • A member of the National Honor Society. 
Personal
  • Majoring in global environmental science. 
  • Has two younger brothers.
  • Parents are Kevin and Blanca Shaeffer of Coronado, Calif.

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-2022Freshman

  • 2022-2023Sophomore

    5'8"
  • 2023-2024Junior

    5'8"
  • 2024-2025Senior

    5'8"