The sailing team’s co-ed, women’s, and freshman divisions finished their penultimate regattas last weekend at Brown University, Connecticut College and the Coast Guard Academy respectively. These regattas represented the New England Championships for each division.
 Bowdoin’s co-ed division fared the best of the three, finishing 10th out of 18 boats at Brown, Bowdoin’s strongest finish in this regatta since the 2007 fall season. The women’s team finished 13th of 18 boats, and the freshman finished 10th of 22 boats. 
The co-ed regatta’s A division sailors—Sarah Fiske ’13, Charlotte Williamson ’15, and Matt Croteau ’15—advanced but the B division sailors Pete Edmunds ’14 and Julia Rew ’14 missed the top eight by seven points, a narrow margin over 24 races.
“The best sailors come out of New England,” Head Coach Frank Pizzo said, adding context to the finishes. “Realistically, finishing in the top ten in New England is like finishing in the top twenty in the nation.”
Pizzo added that he views the fall and spring seasons as one season with a break in the middle. Taking that into consideration, he is satisfied with the team’s performance.
“We’re halfway through the season and we’re sailing well,” he said, “We have a lot of depth and we’re getting solid performances up and down the rosters.”
The team has two weekends left in the fall season, with their remaining regattas in Newport and at St. Mary’s College in Maryland. The former is a 20-team conference event while the latter is the prestigious Atlantic Coast Tournament, which Pizzo compares to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in college basketball.