WASHINGTON – Georgetown won both MAISA conference championships contested over Halloween weekend, but the two titles were earned in very different ways. On Seneca Lake the women's team led wire-to-wire, sweeping both divisions at Hobart and William Smith and without ever being seriously pressured. In Annapolis, the coed team had no such comfort: the War Memorial stayed close up to the final race, with the Hoyas second in both A and B Division and the nine-point win over host Navy not settled until the last light-air race was in the books. By virtue of winning the Conference Championships the coed and women's team will have the number one-ranked schedule in MAISA for 2027.
 
MAISA Fall Women's Championship
Hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Seneca Lake, Geneva, N.Y.
420s
12 teams

• Georgetown finished first overall with 53 points, 23 clear of runner-up Columbia (76). Hobart and William Smith (104) edged Fordham (104) on a tiebreak for third, with Old Dominion fifth (109) and Navy sixth (120).
• Conditions swung through the weekend. Saturday opened in a light southeast wind on Seneca Lake, with one race completed before the breeze died. After a short delay on shore, the wind filled in from the northwest, beautiful sailing but very shifty, and nine more races were sailed, all windward-leewards. Sunday brought a steady southerly and ten more races, again all windward-leewards.
• Georgetown won A Division with 34 points, six ahead of Columbia (40) and twelve clear of host Hobart and William Smith (46). Emily Doble skippered the division throughout, with Ellie Smith crewing for races 1-6 and Lucy Jervis from race seven on.
• The Hoyas were more dominant still, winning B Division with 19 points, 17 ahead of Columbia (36) and 35 ahead of third-place Fordham (54). Nissa Berman and Anna Brzezinski sailed the division wire-to-wire with no substitutions.

War Memorial
Hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis, Md.
FJs
15+ teams

• Georgetown finished first overall with 31 points, nine ahead of host Navy (40). Hobart and William Smith took third (44), Penn was fourth (50), Fordham fifth (58), St. Mary's sixth (62) and Princeton seventh (66).
• The weekend was a light-air grind. Saturday opened at Navy in a northwesterly that clocked to north and then northeast, with two races per division completed in 4-6 knots after the fleet chased breeze around essentially every patch of water near Annapolis. The teams came ashore for a short break, then relaunched to an easterly filling into Carr Cove that became southeast, where races 3A and 3B were run before pressure dropped under four knots and racing was abandoned for the day at 4:15 p.m.
• Sunday held southeast wind hovering around four knots all day, with current flowing out of the Severn adding a further complication; two more races per division were completed, finishing right at the 3 p.m. cutoff, for five races per division on the weekend.
• Peter Barnard and Teddy Stoldt finished second in A Division with 20 points, tied on points with division winner St. Mary's and losing the tiebreak. Queen's was third (25), with Navy (29) and Princeton (29) next.
• Pierce Olsen and Abigail Chang also finished second in B Division with 11 points, again level on points with the winner, this time Navy, and again second on the tiebreak. Hobart and William Smith took third with 14.

Standout Performances

• Georgetown won both A and B Division at the MAISA Fall Women's Championship, the only team in the 12-boat fleet to win a division at all.
• Paired with Brzezinski, Berman sailed every B Division race and posted the single lowest division score of the regatta, 19 points, 17 clear of the next boat.
• Georgetown did not win either division in Annapolis, finishing second in both, yet took the regatta by nine points. Both of those division results were ties broken against the Hoyas: 20 points level with St. Mary's in A, 11 points level with Navy in B.
• Georgetown won two conference titles in one weekend, at venues more than 300 miles apart, both decided in sub-10-knot conditions where small mistakes were expensive.
• Four division podium places over the weekend were settled on tiebreaks including the top two spots in both War Memorial divisions, as was third place overall in the women's championship, where Hobart and William Smith and Fordham finished level on 104 points.

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