CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard Sailing went 2-for-2 over the weekend, winning the Yale Women's Team Race and NEISA Open Team Race Championship for the Fowle Trophy. The Crimson now has eight victories this spring, adding to a total that represents the most in the program's recorded history.
Yale Women's Team Race | New Haven, Conn.
Harvard won the five-team, one-day regatta in Connecticut on Saturday as it posted a 6-2 record. The Crimson, Brown and Roger Williams, in fact, all recorded identical marks on the day, but Harvard claimed the victory as a result of tiebreaker rules.
In Round 1,
Kate Danielson skippered the Crimson's A-boat and was joined by
Katherine Shin and
Amelie Zucker.
Sophia Montgomery handled the B-division with
Hanah Youn and Shin, while
Zoey Ziskind was paired with
Amelie Zucker and
Peyton Hadfield. Second-round action, meanwhile featured Danielson-Zucker, Montgomery-Shin, and Ziskind-Hadfield.
The Crimson went a perfect 4-0 in the first round, posting 1-2-3 decisions over Hobart and William Smith and Dartmouth, before going 1-2-4 vs. Brown and Roger Williams. Harvard rank its winning streak to six with a 1-2-3 performance vs. Hobart and William Smith and a 1-2-5 over Dartmouth. The Crimson, however, closed with a 1-5-6 loss to Brown and 2-3-6 defeat to RWU to finish at 6-2. At the time of the Brown loss, Harvard had fewer points than the Bears (37-43) to give it the edge and the title.
NEISA Open Team Race Championship/Fowle Trophy | Cranston, R.I.
Harvard dominated the 12-team field, posting a 20-1 record and winning the Fowle Trophy by five races. As a result of its victory, the Crimson earned the NEISA's automatic bid to the ICSA Open Team Race National Championship in New Orleans at the end of the month. Brown finished as the event's runner-up, going 15-6, while Dartmouth came in third at 14-7.
Round 1 saw
Robby Meek and
Aidan Pesce team up for two races (vs. Tufts, MIT), but the junior mostly competed with
Jacob Posner (nine races) in the A-division.
Justin Callahan, meanwhile, skippered the Crimson's B-boat, sharing the rig with Pesce (six races),
Xavier Ayala-Vermont (two races) and
Christina Chen (three races). Over in the C-division,
Mitchell Callahan was paired with Posner (two races), Chen (six races), and
Rosella Irfan (three races). The final two rounds saw the Crimson go with Meek-Posner,
Justin Callahan-Chen, and
Mitchell Callahan-Irfan.
Harvard went a perfect 12-0 on Saturday, but still found itself in a fight for the trophy as Brown (11-2) and Roger Williams (10-3) were still in striking distance. The Crimson's lone defeat came in the final race of Round 2, when it was on the short end of a 1-2-5 showing by Roger Williams. By then, however, Harvard had already banked six wins in the round as it was well on its way to the Final 4. From there, it was just a formality and the Crimson made sure of it with a 1-2-5 effort vs. RWU, a 1-2-3 triumph over Dartmouth and a 1-2-4 performance against Brown.
Harvard's NEISA win was a welcomed sight after coming close the last several years. Prior to this season, the Crimson finished in second place in 2022, third in 2023, second in 2024 and second in 2025. It will now have the opportunity defend its ICSA Open Team Race National Championship and look for its third such title in the last four years (2023, 2025).
Up Next
The Crimson will sail at three regattas this weekend, with two taking place locally – the Legler Trophy for the NEISA Women's Team Racing Championship in Medford and the Central Series 4 Fleet Race on the Charles River. Harvard will also head to New London, Connecticut, for the Thompson Trophy Team Race. The Legler and Thompson Trophies are set for April 11-12, while the Central Series 4 event will take place on April 11 only.
