CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing competed in three regattas over the weekend, which marked the end of its Fall 2025 regular-season schedule. The Crimson won the 84^th Professor Erwin Schell Trophy – its sixth team win of the fall – and finished in third and ninth place, respectively, at the Victorian Urn Trophy and Terrier Invitational.

Schell Trophy | Cambridge, Mass.

Team captain Mitchell Callahan knew the math: put at least one boat between Harvard and Yale for the last race of a 2-day, 28-race regatta (14 races, 2 divisions) to win the conference championship. Coming into the finish, the senior executed world-class tactics—slowing the Yale boat and drawing a foul—then crossed the line in second to clinch the Schell Trophy/New England Fall Fleet Race Championship for Harvard. 

Assistant coach Bern Noack: "That was a clutch move. Brilliantly executed. I've rarely seen a regatta end in such a dramatic fashion. The level of difficulty and skill involved with that strategy is incredible and not something I will soon forget."

Callahan and crew Rosella Irfan also won their division and were low point winners for the regatta with a score of 59. Justin Callahan and Jacob Posner, meanwhile, finished with an A-division score of 68 to rank second in their field. Altogether, the Crimson finished with a winning score of 127, with Yale falling one point shy at 128.

Victorian Urn Trophy | Cambridge, Mass.

Tricky winds presented some challenging conditions, but athletes were able get 12 races in during the two-division, two-day regatta on the Charles River. Zoey Ziskind (1-6) and Kate Danielson (7-12) skippered the Crimson A-division boat and were assisted by Christina Chen (1-6) and JJ Drummond (7-12). The duo of Ziskind-Chen finished in the top-5 in all six races, with wins coming in its first two outings. Danielson and Drummond, meanwhile, won Race 7 and posted top-10 performances in five of the six races they competed in.
 
Over in the B-division, Sophia Montgomery sailed in Race 1-10 with Katherine Shin and produced eight top-8 efforts. The pair finished in second once (Race 1) and third twice (Race 2, 5). Chen joined Montgomery for the final two races and they came in seventh and first, respectively.
 
Harvard's A-boat finished with a final score of 57, which ranked second in the division. The Crimson B-entry, meanwhile, had the fourth-best score at 66. Harvard's regatta total of 123 trailed only Brown (107) and Dartmouth (109).

Terrier Invitational | Boston, Mass.

Harvard stayed local to compete at the nearby Terrier Invitational and got in six races on the Charles River. Theresa Straw and Skyler Reading took on the A-division, while Caroline Straw and Catherine Mignone received the B-division assignment. Both boats started slow, but finished the one-day event on strong notes. T. Straw-Reading opened with 15^th- and 14^th-place showings before closing with a four-race line of 3-5-13-8 to finish with a final score of 58. C. Straw-Mignone, meanwhile, went 14-10 in Race 1 and 2, respectively, and then posted an 8-6-12-2 performance to end with a 52. As a team, the Crimson finished with a 110, tying with Northeastern, but getting the nod based on the number of high-place finishes (2). Brown won the regatta with a score of 30. 

Up Next

Harvard will return to action Nov. 8-9, when it appears at the ICSA Singlehanded National Championships. Robby Meek earned the NEISA automatic bid to the open regatta, while Montgomery and Danielson were at-large-berth recipients to the women's event.