CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing finished the four-day ICSA Women's Fleet Racing National Championship in seventh place. The Crimson has now finished in the top-7 nationally at the event four straight times (2019 – 2^nd, 2022 – 4^th, 2023 – 6^th, 2024 – 7^th).
 
Harvard emerged with a final score of 282, trailing national champion Stanford (207), Boston College (233), Dartmouth (236), Yale (244), Brown (275) and Cornell (281).
 
After completing 12 of a scheduled 18 races on Wednesday, the field aimed to finish the final six on Thursday. Everything was going according to plan until lightning and rain paused competition. In the end, 17 races were completed with the Cardinal emerging victorious.
 
Harvard, seeded seventh entering the championship, were led by A-Division skipper Cordelia Burn and crew Emily Launderville (13) and Kennedy Leehealey (14-17). The trio finished 11^th, 10^th, 11^th and 10^th, before capping the 2023-24 campaign with a first-place performance in Race 17. In all, Harvard earned 136 points against A-Division competition.
 
In the B-Division, Sarah Burn (13-14) and Zoey Ziskind (15-17) shared skipper duties, with Lily Bartlett (13-14) and Alexandra Dorofeev (15-17) serving as crew. The Crimson posted back-to-back 12^th-place efforts before going 1-3-9 in the final three races to post a final score of 146.
 
Harvard will now turn its focus to the ICSA Open Fleet Racing National Championship, which begins tomorrow with the semifinals. The Crimson enter as the top seed and will begin its journey in the Eastern Bracket at approximately 10:30 a.m. ET on the Charles River.