Tulane Sailing Releases Spring Schedule
Jan 16, 2020 | Sailing
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NEW ORLEANS — Tulane sailing has officially set its schedule for the team's second spring season as a varsity program, head coach Charles Higgins announced Thursday.
"We're definitely excited about this upcoming spring season," head coach Charles Higgins said. "We're obviously coming off of a really good fall campaign with our women's and coed teams being ranked and that's a great place to be, but it's only a starting point for where we want to go."
Both the women's and coed Green Wave teams head into 2020 with national rankings, as the women rank 15th and the coed squad ranks 20th in the most recent Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) poll.
The team will host five regattas out of the Municipal Yacht Harbor on Lake Pontchartrain during the regular season before welcoming 32 teams to New Orleans for the ICSA Women's, Coed and Team Race National Championships at the end of May.
Tulane opens its season at home with the Nelson Roltsch Regatta on Feb. 15 and 16 before hosting the Big Easy Fleet Race two weeks later on Feb. 29 and March 1. The Green Wave will also compete at the College of Charleston that weekend, sailing in the Bob Bavier Team Race in their second weekend of spring competition.
On March 7 and 8, Tulane heads back to Charleston, South Carolina to race in the College of Charleston Spring Interconference Regatta. The following weekend, the team will split up again — with some sailors staying at home to host the Garner-Tullis Team Race and others heading to Navy for the Graham Hall Team Race on March 14 and 15.
The Olive and Blue will then travel to Old Dominion on March 21 and 22 to compete in the Szambecki Team Race before heading back to New Orleans to host the Tulane Women's Interconference Regatta on March 28 and 29.
The team splits up again the following weekend as both groups head to New England, with some racing in the Women's Team Race National Invitational at Brown for the first time in this discipline and others sailing in the Thompson Trophy at Connecticut College on April 11 and 12.
On April 18 and 19, the Green Wave remain at home to host the SEISA Team Race and Coed Championships for the second consecutive season. Conference action continues on April 25 and 26 as Tulane heads to Austin, Texas to fight for the SEISA Women's Conference Championship title.
Tulane will wrap up postseason competition on Lake Pontchartrain, hosting the ICSA Women's National Championship from May 26-29, the ICSA Coed National Championship from May 30-June 2 and the ICSA Team Race Championship from June 3-5.
"Overall I think our schedule sets us up really well to continue to grow as a team to where hopefully we're peaking at the right time when we get to our conference championships and then ultimately our national championships," Higgins said. "We certainly have a home advantage for both of those and we want to be able to utilize that. I think we've set ourselves up well to compete against the best competition leading up to those events to where we are the best prepared we can possibly be."
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