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2025-26 Sailing Roster

Theresa Straw

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Cape Elizabeth, Maine
  • High School Cape Elizabeth High School

Biography

First-Year (2024-25)

Saw action in three fall regattas and three in the spring… Skippered the sixth-place entry at the BU Invite (B Division)… Competed in the C Division of the Oberg Trophy (16th place)… Split time between skipper and crew at the Nickerson Trophy (12th, B Division; fifth, A Division)… Opened the spring serving as crew at the Southern New England Women’s Team Race and the Duplin Trophy, where the team finished in second and third, respectively… Was a skipper at the BU Trophy (ninth) and a reserve at the NEISA Spring Women’s Fleet Race Championship.

Before Harvard

Sailed for four varsity seasons at Cape Elizabeth... Competed on the SailMaine Summer Race Team for seven years and the Portland Yacht Club Summer Race Team for one year... Served as Cape Elizabeth team captain for three seasons... Competed in 48 high school regattas... Captured the 2024 Maine Club 420 State Champion, serving as crew for first all-female boat to win the championship since its inception... Maine Women's Doublehanded Sailing champion as skipper in 2022... Skippered in US Sailing's Youth Tripledhanded Championship for the Sears Cup (2024)... Led CEHS to berths at the Atlantic Coast Championship, NESSA Women's Championship (twice), and NESSA Fleet Racing Championship (twice)... 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholar semifinalist... National Merit Scholar in 2024... NSDA All-State and Academic All-American Debater (2024)... Girls Nation Senator and Supreme Court Justice (2023)... Recipient of the Lucinda Beneventi Findley History Scholarship.

Historical Player Information

  • 2024-25First-Year

  • 2025-26Sophomore