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Sailing Claims Sherman Hoyt Trophy, Second Place in NEISA Match Race Championship
9/22/2025 11:45:00 AM | Women's Sailing, Coed Sailing
The Bears hosted the Sherman Hoyt Trophy from Sept. 20-21, the weekend's top coed dinghy event featuring some of New England's best programs. Junior Blake Behrens and senior Caroline Keeffe-Jones won the A Division by an impressive 17 points over second-place Harvard. Behrens and Keeffe-Jones won two of their seven races, finishing in the top five in the remainder. Sophomore Tyler Lamm along with crews junior Vera Allen and senior Brianna Ross finished fourth in the B Division. The Bears won the 18-team event by seven points over second place Roger Williams University.
Brown finished in second place overall in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Match Race Championship hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Senior skipper Guthrie Braun and crews junior Camren Spriggs, senior Katherine McNamara, and sophomore Charlie Gish made up the team in J70s, and is the same group that finished second in the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Match Race Nationals last year. The team cruised through the quarter and semifinals undefeated before ultimately losing to Harvard in a close best-of-three finals. The Bears will now await selection for nationals, which will occur mid-October.
The Bears sent two teams to compete for the Hood Trophy at Tufts, finishing the event in fourth and fifth place in the 18-team event. Sophomore James Brock and first-year Phoebe Fogarty finished second in the A Division, while first years Noah Stapleton and crews Dominic Ciccimaro and Michelle Kaneti finished third.
The women's team had two teams compete for the Mrs. Hurst Bowl at Dartmouth, finishing seventh and ninth out of 17 teams. Juniors Laura Hamilton and Katherine Majette finished fourth in the A Division.
Up Next
The coed sailing team will prepare to compete for the Smith Trophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sept. 27), Moody Trophy at URI (Sept. 27-28), and the Danmark Trophy at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (Sept. 27-28). The women's sailing team will compete in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Championship at the U.S. Naval Academy (Sept. 27-28).
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