CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing advanced to the Round of 6 on Sunday at the 2024 ICSA Women's Team Racing National Championship on the Charles River. The Crimson tied for the second-best record at 8-3, but will enter the event's final day ranked fourth after tiebreakers.
Stanford led the field of 12 with a perfect 11-0 mark, with Boston College, Dartmouth and Harvard all tied at 8-3. The Eagles enter Monday as the No. 2 team, with the Big Green in third in front of the Crimson. The rest of the finalists include Yale (7-4) and Penn (6-5), which defeated Cornell (6-5) in a sail-off for the final spot in the championship round.
Harvard was represented by
Cordelia Burn and
Emily Launderville,
Sarah Burn and
Lily Bartlett, and
Zoey Ziskind and
Margo Silliman. Between the three boats, the Crimson opened with victories over Cornell (1-3-5), Yale (1-2-6), Wisconsin (1-2-4) and Brown (1-3-5), before suffering a 2-4-6 loss to Dartmouth.
Harvard rebounded with a 1-3-5 decision over Tulane and a 1-4-5 win vs. College of Charleston, entering a showdown with Stanford. The Cardinal, however, emerged with a 1-2-4 effort to hand the hosts its second loss of the day. The Crimson finished its day with a 2-1 mark, taking down Penn (2-3-4) and MIT (1-2-5), with a loss to Boston College (1-5-6) in between.
Harvard will compete for a national title on Monday morning, with ESPN+ covering the action live beginning at 10:30 a.m. ET.
