CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing won the Marchiando Trophy Team Race for the second consecutive season and came in fourth place at the Dellenbaugh Trophy Women's Team Race over the weekend. The Crimson has now won at least one regatta in five straight spring weekends, extending a streak that has not been accomplished in Cambridge since at least the 2008-09 campaign.

Marchiando Trophy Team Race | Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard won the Marchiando Trophy for the fourth time since 2019, finishing with a record of 13-2. After one day of action, the Crimson found itself in third place with a 7-2 mark, which was also tied with Navy and Brown, and behind Dartmouth (7-1) and St. Mary's College of Maryland (8-2). A big Sunday push, however, propelled Harvard to the top spot, which it shared with the Big Green. The Crimson emerged victorious despite the tie with Dartmouth due to a head-to-head victory over its Ivy League neighbors to the north.
 
Harvard was represented at the MIT-hosted Marchiando by Justin Callahan-Christina Chen, Mitchell Callahan-Rosella Irfan, and Harrison Strom-Jacob Posner. On Day 1, the Crimson opened with three straight 1-2-3 victories (Yale, U.S. Coast Guard, Old Dominion) before going with a 1-2-5, 1-2-3 and 1-2-5, against Bowdoin, Brown and MIT, respectively. A 1-3-6 setback to Navy stopped a six-win run, but the Crimson closed the day with a 1-3-5 decision over Connecticut College.  
 
Day 2 began ominously as Harvard was dropped by Tufts' 1-4-5 performance, but similar to its Saturday loss to Navy, the Crimson responded resoundingly. Harvard went on to take down Penn (1-2-3), Roger Williams (1-2-5), St. Mary's (1-2-5) and Rhode Island (1-2-4), to set up a winner-take-all showdown with Dartmouth. With the hardware on the line, Harvard came through, earning a 1-2-5 result over the Big Green. Harvard (13-2) topped the final team standings, with Dartmouth (13-2), Roger Williams (14-4), Navy (13-5) and Tufts (12-6) rounding out the top five.

Dellenbaugh Trophy Women's Team Race | Cranston, R.I.

Harvard posted its fourth top-5 performance in a women's team race this spring, coming in fourth place at the Dellenbaugh Trophy. The Crimson' fourth-place showing matched last year's effort, which was the program's best at the regatta since 2019. Harvard, in fact, tied with Yale for the third-best record (11-5), but took the lower position due to having fewer total points in the two races they sailed against each other (Yale won, 1-2-6; Harvard won, 1-4-5).
 
During Round 1, Sophia Montgomery skippered the Crimson's A-division boat and was joined by Hanah Youn, Theresa Straw and Katherine Shin. Kate Danielson, meanwhile, directed the B-entry and was assisted by JJ Drummond and Shin. Over in the C-division, Zoey Ziskind served as skipper, with Amelie Zucker crewing the entire regatta. When the action transitioned to the Top 6 Gold Round, the Crimson went with Montgomery-Shin/Youn, Danielson-Drummond, and Ziskind-Zucker.
 
Harvard went 7-3 on Day 1, sitting alone in fourth place. The Crimson opened by taking just one of its first three races, sandwiching a 1-2-5 victory over Cornell, with a 2-3-4 loss to Tulane and a 1-2-6 defeat to Yale. Harvard then won two of its next three (1-3-4 vs. College of Charleston and Roger Williams), but fell to Stanford, 1-2-5. With the day coming to a close, the Crimson rattled off four consecutive victories (1-4-5 vs. Dartmouth, 2-3-4 vs. Brown, 1-4-5 vs. MIT, 1-2-6 vs. Bowdoin) to end on a high note.
 
Sunday's Top 6 Gold action began like Saturday as Harvard went 1-2 in its first three outings, splitting losses to Stanford (4-5-6) and Brown (2-3-6), with a win over Tulane (1-2-4). The Crimson, however, finished the regatta with a clutch 1-4-5 victory over Yale and a 1-2-5 showing vs. RWU to earn a tie, record-wise, with the Bulldogs, who opened the day in second place with an 8-1 mark. Stanford won the event after it went 14-2, with Brown (13-3), Yale (11-5), Harvard (11-5) and Tulane (7-9) occupying the top-five spots on the final team leaderboard.

Up Next

Harvard returns to the water this weekend when it competes at the Fowle Trophy (NEISA Open Team Racing Championship) in Cranston, Rhode Island, and at the Yale Women's Team Race in New Haven, Connecticut. Both regattas are scheduled for Saturday, April 4-Sunday, April 5.