ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Rollins competed against some of the top teams in the country at the Jen Harris Team Race this weekend, with seven of the ICSA Women's Top 15 programs in the field. The cross-regional regatta featured team racing in FJs and 420s.
Foggy conditions greeted sailors throughout the weekend, though enough breeze filled on Saturday to allow for a full day of racing. Competition began at 10 a.m. and continued into the evening, with 53 races completed before the wind shut down. Sunday brought similar fog but very little breeze, and despite attempts to get racing underway in the afternoon, conditions never fully filled. With Saturday's racing surpassing the 80 percent threshold, the regatta was deemed complete.
The Tars finished the event with a 2–7 record. Rollins opened against No. 2 Brown, falling 4-5-6, before dropping another tight race to No. 1 Stanford (3-5-6). The next stretch of matchups came against Old Dominion (2-3-6), No. 14 Pennsylvania (4-5-6), No. 6 Georgetown (4-5-6), No. 5 Harvard (4-5-6), and South Florida (1-5-6).
Rollins earned its first victory against receiving-votes Hobart and William Smith, finishing 1-2-5 in the head-to-head. The Tars followed with another win over host Navy (RV), again taking first, second, and fifth. The final scheduled matchups against No. 10 Tufts and No. 7 Cornell went unraced due to the lack of wind on Sunday.
Annie Samis (skipper) and
Jane McKenzie (crew) formed a consistent pairing throughout the event.
Adelaide Matzky also remained steady in the lineup, rotating between skipper and crew alongside
Julia Scott and racing with
Mollie Wood as crew in three matchups.
Shay Bridge skippered eight of the nine races, with Wood and
Margaret Burnham rotating as crew. The final race featured Scott at skipper with Burnham as crew.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Rollins also competed Saturday at the Old Florida Trophy, a fundamental regatta featuring FJs in a two-division scoring format. Ten teams participated in the event, with six races completed on the day.
The Tars finished third overall with 48 points (29 in A Division, 19 in B).
In A Division,
Jack Adderley (skipper) and
Alexander Goldsmith (crew) recorded four top-three finishes, highlighted by a race win in race six.
B Division saw Rollins finish inside the top five in every race.
Matthew Sexton (skipper) and
Noah Belson (crew) accounted for three of those finishes, including the division's best result — a second-place finish in race three. The remaining two races saw Belson move to skipper with Sexton as crew, adding two more top-five results for the Tars.
Rollins returns to home waters next weekend, March 14–15, for the Bud Morrow Open on Lake Virginia in Winter Park.
