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Cougars Win SAISA Women's Fall DInghy and Singlehanded Championship
10/2/2016 8:28:00 PM | Sailing
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The College of Charleston women's sailing team won the SAISA Women's Fall Dinghy Championship with a 24-point victory over USF, while freshman Kelly-Ann Arrindell (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad) and sophomore Kelly Cole advanced to ICSA Women's Singlehanded Nationals with a 1-2 finish at the SAISA Women's Singlehanded Championship.
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The Cougars dominated the competition and led both days of racing at the fall dinghy regatta to qualify for the Women's ACC's to be held on Nov. 12-13 in Charleston.
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Freshman Alie Toppa skippered A-Division to a first-place finish with 11 points with sophomore crew Annabel Carrington (White Stone, Va.), while senior skipper Nikki Medley and senior crew Irene Abascal (Guatemala City, Guatemala) sailed in B-Division and were third with 32 points.
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In the singlehanded lasers, Arrindell, the first female sailor from Trinidad and Tobago to compete in the Pan-American Games in 2015, finished the regatta with a low nine points, while Cole was runner-up (10 points).
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Over at the Danmark Trophy hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the Cougars saw difficult conditions and placed 10th out of 20 teams in New London, Conn.
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In A-Division, junior Stefano Peschiera (Lima, Peru) and junior crew Grace McCarthy (San Diego, Calif.) finished fifth in a head-to-head tiebreaker with Stanford (126 points), while junior skipper Christophe Killian (Newport Beach, Calif.) and junior crew Clare Dahl (Newport Beach, Calif.) placed 14th in B-Division.
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Next weekend, the Cougars will travel to the Navy Fall Women's regatta hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy on Oct. 8-9 in Annapolis, Md., North Points #4 hosted by UNCW on Oct. 8 in Wilmington, N.C., and the Larchmont Offshore Invite on Oct. 7-9 in Larchmont, N.Y.
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The Cougars dominated the competition and led both days of racing at the fall dinghy regatta to qualify for the Women's ACC's to be held on Nov. 12-13 in Charleston.
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Freshman Alie Toppa skippered A-Division to a first-place finish with 11 points with sophomore crew Annabel Carrington (White Stone, Va.), while senior skipper Nikki Medley and senior crew Irene Abascal (Guatemala City, Guatemala) sailed in B-Division and were third with 32 points.
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In the singlehanded lasers, Arrindell, the first female sailor from Trinidad and Tobago to compete in the Pan-American Games in 2015, finished the regatta with a low nine points, while Cole was runner-up (10 points).
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Over at the Danmark Trophy hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the Cougars saw difficult conditions and placed 10th out of 20 teams in New London, Conn.
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In A-Division, junior Stefano Peschiera (Lima, Peru) and junior crew Grace McCarthy (San Diego, Calif.) finished fifth in a head-to-head tiebreaker with Stanford (126 points), while junior skipper Christophe Killian (Newport Beach, Calif.) and junior crew Clare Dahl (Newport Beach, Calif.) placed 14th in B-Division.
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Next weekend, the Cougars will travel to the Navy Fall Women's regatta hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy on Oct. 8-9 in Annapolis, Md., North Points #4 hosted by UNCW on Oct. 8 in Wilmington, N.C., and the Larchmont Offshore Invite on Oct. 7-9 in Larchmont, N.Y.
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