WASHINGTON – Georgetown sailing won the Open Atlantic Coast Championships Round 1 at the U.S. Naval Academy this past weekend, topping an 18-team showcase fleet by 12 points, then carried the momentum into Monday at Kings Point, where the Hoyas were crowned 2026 MAISA Match Race Champions. At home, Georgetown hosted both halves of the Oyster Bowl on the Potomac, finishing fifth of seven in the coed event and fifth in the women's regatta, where the A-division boat came within a single point of winning its division.
 
Open Atlantic Coast Championships Round 1
Hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy
18 teams

• Georgetown won the regatta with 105 points, 12 clear of runner-up Boston College (117) and 15 ahead of third-place MIT (120). Yale and Navy tied at 130, with Yale taking fourth on a head-to-head tiebreaker. Each division sailed 10 races.
• Conditions were a test of patience on Saturday as the northeast breeze was fickle, and only a couple of races were attempted before it finally filled in around 3:30 p.m., after which each division completed six races in 5–9 knots of northeast wind.
• Sunday's forecast called for 28–40 knots, but the actual range was 2.8–8 knots. Four more races were completed in moderate northeast wind before the breeze dropped and the fleet moved offsite to wait out the rain. The wind never came back.
• A Division - Peter Barnard skippered with Teddy Stoldt crewing, scoring 73 points for fourth in division. The pair bookended a hot middle stretch with two race wins, taking Race 3 and Race 6, and added a third in Race 8 as well as a fourth in Race 4, enough to stay in contact with division winner MIT (61) and finish one point ahead of Boston College's A boat (74).
• B Division - Peter Herlihy skippered with Scarlett Harris crewing, and their 32 points were the lowest B-division score in the 18-team fleet,10 points better than Navy (42) and 11 better than Boston College (43). Herlihy and Harris won three races (1, 5 and 7), added seconds in Races 4 and 9, and never finished worse than eighth across the 10-race series. Eight additional Hoyas traveled as reserves: Leyla Amjad, Anna Brzezinski, Jack Duffy, Lucy Jervis, Owen Kohut, Fynn Olsen, Pierce Olsen and Ellie Smith.

Oyster Bowl Coed
Hosted by Georgetown
Washington Sailing Marina Lagoon and Hains Point
FJs
7 teams

• Navy won the coed Oyster Bowl with 153 points, ahead of Penn (190), Hobart and William Smith (200) and Fordham (204). Georgetown finished fifth with 226, nine points ahead of Old Dominion (235) and clear of St. Mary's (262). Fourteen races were sailed in each division.
• Racing began at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday in light easterly wind inside the Washington Sailing Marina Lagoon. As the tide dropped, racing inside the lagoon became difficult, so the fleet took a break and shifted to Hains Point, where the northeasterly filled to 6–12 mph and shifty with current in play, but good racing. Ten races were completed by 5:15 p.m.
• The regatta ran as fully umpired fleet racing, which kept the umpires busy at the windward mark and the gates early before the racing cleaned up through the afternoon. A sail-tracking service built by a Georgetown undergraduate Poshu Ng, RaceSense, tracked Saturday's coed races.
• Sunday brought a strong north-northeasterly around 12 mph and driving rain, with close, competitive racing held in the lagoon and the regatta wrapped up before noon.
• A Division - Jake Julien skippered with Sophia Skrivanich crewing, finishing on 126 points, seventh in division. The boat's best work came late: a fourth in Race 12 and a third in Race 13 after an earlier third in Race 7 and a fourth in Race 3.
• B Division - Conrad Cook skippered with Lia Nafe crewing for 100 points, fifth in division and a single point out of fourth. Their closing stretch carried the Georgetown score,  a race win in Race 9, thirds in Races 10 and 11, and a second in the final race, Race 14.

Oyster Bowl Women's
Hosted by Georgetown
Washington Sailing Marina Lagoon and Hains Point
420s

• Fordham won the women's Oyster Bowl with 82 points, followed by Navy (95), Penn (99) and St. Mary's (136). Georgetown finished fifth with 139, three points behind St. Mary's. Ten races were sailed in each division, with the women's regatta completed on Saturday,  which is why only the coed Oyster Bowl sailed on Sunday. Results remain pending final confirmation on Techscore.
• The women sailed in the same Saturday sequence as the coed fleet: light easterly air in the lagoon from a 12:30 p.m. start, a break as the tide dropped, then a move to Hains Point for 6–12 mph of shifty northeasterly with current, under fully umpired fleet racing. All 10 races were in the books by 5:15 p.m.
• A Division - Abigail Chang skippered with Irene Lin crewing and posted 46 points which was second in division, one point behind Navy (45) and four ahead of St. Mary's (50). Chang and Lin won the opening race and closed with a 4-3-2 over the last three, adding seconds in Races 3 and 7.
• B Division - Audrey Smith and Lucy Fleckenstein split the boat, with Smith skippering in Races 1 and 5–7 and Fleckenstein skippering in Races 2–4 and 8–10. The all-freshmen pairing scored 93 points. 

Intrepid Trophy
MAISA Match Race Championship
Hosted by Kings Point (U.S. Merchant Marine Academy)
J/70s
5 teams

• The teams sailed on Monday, the day after the weekend's fleet racing and postponed by the Nor'Easter a few weeks earlier. The Intrepid Trophy went to Georgetown, which finished first in the five-team conference championship ahead of Navy, host Kings Point, St. Mary's and Fordham, in that order. The result makes the Hoyas the 2026 MAISA Match Race Champions and qualified the Hoyas for the ICSA Match Race National Championship in Newport Beach, Calif. on November 14-15.
• The breeze was a moderate northerly that varied in strength through the day before shifting left and strengthening somewhat during the final races.
• Peter Herlihy skippered, with Peter Barnard, Jack Duffy, Maddie Rode and Owen Kohut. Match racing is sailed as a single division, head to head format and the Hoyas ended up 4-0 in the opening round and then swept the Merchant Marine Academy 2-0 in the semifinals setting up a winner take all final round with Navy.  In the finals, the Hoyas were unstoppable, winning each start and extending their lead for a comfortable 2-0 win.

Standout Performances

• Herlihy and Harris's 32 points was the lowest B-division score among all 18 teams at the ACCs, and the 10-point gap back to Navy's B boat accounts for most of Georgetown's 12-point winning margin. They won three races and had a worst finish of eighth.
• Both Georgetown boats were inside the top five of their division at the ACCs as Barnard and Stoldt were fourth in A, and Herlihy and Harris first in B. GU was the only team in the regatta with a division win and a top-four score in the other.
• Chang and Lin's 46 points in the women's A division finished a single point behind Navy's 45 across 10 races, after opening the regatta with a bullet.
• Four members of the Class of 2030 were in boats across the three days. Smith and Fleckenstein sailed the full 10-race women's B division as a freshman pairing, trading skipper and crew duties through the series. Skrivanich crewed the coed A division; and Rode was on the match race crew that won the MAISA championship.
• Georgetown took the Intrepid Trophy and the MAISA Match Race Championship the day after the ACCs, finishing ahead of Navy in a five-team J/70 field. Herlihy skippered the winning B-division boat at the ACCs on Saturday and Sunday and then skippered the match race entry on Monday; Barnard, Duffy and Kohut were on the Georgetown roster at both events.
• Cook and Nafe scored 1-3-3 in Races 9 through 11 and a second in the final race, closing to within one point of fourth in division after a slower first half.

 
Full results, race-by-race scores and sailor lineups for every regatta are posted at scores.collegesailing.org.