Posted with permission, article and pictures, courtesy of University of Hawaii Manoa

The University of Hawai’i sailing team is back in the postseason as they head to the ICSA National Championships hosted by Tulane University in New Orleans. Both the coed and women’s teams will compete in the nationals which start May 19 on the waters of Lake Pontchartrain.

The ICSA Nationals consists of three events — coed fleet racing, women’s fleet racing, and team racing. UH will compete in two of the events — the coed championship and the women’s championship.  

The Rainbow coed team received an at-large bid to the nationals after a stellar spring season in which they captured four regattas while finishing no lower than third in nine events. UH has been placed in the Eastern Semifinals with 18 other squads and will compete on May 19-20. The top nine squads from each semifinal will then advance to the final field of 18 with a champion crowned on May 22. Competing for the coed team will be all-conference sailors Samuel Patton, Sam Kimmel, Devon Stapleton, and Bastien Rasse, as well as Owen Lahr and Frances Tarpey-Schwed.