CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing received four invitations to compete at two national championships in November, it was announced late Tuesday.
Robby Meek,
Sophia Montgomery and
Kate Danielson are set to compete at the 2025 College Sailing Singlehanded National Championship.
Justin Callahan, meanwhile, is scheduled to skipper the Crimson entry at the 2025 College Sailing Match Race National Championship.
The open and women's singlehanded national championship will take place Nov. 8-9, in Norfolk, Virginia, with Old Dominion serving as host. The match race national championship will take center stage over two days (Nov. 15-16) in St. Petersburg, Florida, with South Florida welcoming competitors to town.
Meek, as a result of him winning the NEISA Open Singlehanded Championship, was one of six automatic qualifiers for the 18-sailor event. This season's appearance will mark the junior's third in as many years. Meek finished in fourth place in 2023 and in eighth in 2024.
Montgomery and Danielson, meanwhile, received two of 12 at-large berths to the women's national championship. Montgomery enters the regatta as the defending champion and has two national titles (2022, 2024) to her credit. The senior will be making her fourth appearance at the event. Danielson is back at the national regatta after a fourth-place showing as a first-year in 2024. Montgomery and Danielson finished in second and fourth place, respectively, at the NEISA race in mid-September.
Callahan earned one of six automatic bids to the 10-person match-race regatta after he skippered the Crimson to a first-place performance at the NEISA Match Race Championship back in September. Harvard dominated that regatta, finishing with a final score of three. The senior was joined atop the leaderboard by Danielson,
Mitchell Callahan and
Harrison Strom. This marks Callahan's second straight invitation to the national contest.