CRANSTON, R.I. – The fourth-seeded Harvard Sailing team opened the 2025 ICSA Women's Team Race National Championship on Sunday and finished its day in a tie for third place. The Crimson battled windy conditions, forcing it and the rest of the field to end the day early.
 
Sailing for Harvard are skippers Cordelia Burn, Kate Danielson and Zoey Ziskind, and the trio is supported by Margo Silliman, Amelie Zucker, Kennedy Leehealey and Peyton Hadfield. With its three skippers and four crew members, the Crimson went 6-3 on the day, a performance that was matched by Tulane. The two find themselves looking up at undefeated Yale (9-0) and Stanford (8-0).
 
The Crimson started fast, taking down Georgetown (1-2-5), Cornell (1-2-3), MIT (1-2-3), Tufts (1-2-3) and Penn (1-3-6). A two-race skid (3-5-6 vs. Yale, 3-4-6 vs. Dartmouth) halted Harvard's momentum, but it responded with a 2-3-5 showing vs. College of Charleston. The Crimson, however, was on the short end of a 1-2-4 win by Stanford to close out the afternoon.
 
After Yale, Stanford, Harvard and Tulane, Dartmouth finds itself just one win behind the Crimson and Green Wave at 5-4. Brown is 4-4, with Cornell (4-5), MIT (3-5), College of Charleston (3-6), Georgetown (3-7), Tufts (2-9) and Penn (1-8) rounding out the field.
 
Harvard still has matchups vs. Brown (4-4) and Tulane left in Round 1, which is scheduled to resume on Monday at 10 a.m. ET (ESPN+). After the round is complete, the top six will move on and the top four after that, with a national champion to be crowned at the end of competition.