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Pine Trophy
Sailing Wins Three Events to Start Season
9/8/2025 1:00:00 PM | Women's Sailing, Coed Sailing
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Brown open and women's sailing teams competed in five events across the weekend, winning three of them.
The Bears competed for the Pine Trophy at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. They won the event, qualifying them for the NEISA Match Race Championship at the Coast Guard Academy from Sept. 20-21.
The open team also competed for the Harry Anderson Trophy at Yale in New Haven, Conn. The Bears won the event for the second year in a row, with Bears 2 earning a third place podium finish in the 18-team event. Brown also had boats finish in first and second place in the B-division.
Sophomore Julian Dahiya and first-year Elena Sun won the 16-boat Bears Invitational at home on Saturday. First-year student-athletes Noah Stapleton and Michelle Kaneti finished behind Dahiya and Sun in second place. Sophomores Gabriela Collins and Marin Soderberg finished in 11th place, while first-years William Baker and Kyoko Tonkin capped off the event in 14th.
The open team rounded out competition at the Harvard Invitational, where Collins and first-year Michelle Kaneti finished in fourth place out of 18 boats.
The women's sailing team competed in the Toni Deutsch Trophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Bears claimed fourth place with strong performances from senior Kaitlyn Hamilton, and juniors Laura Hamilton and Katherine Majette.
Up Next
Brown will host the NEISA Open and Women's Singlehanded Championships on Sept. 12-13.
The open team will also compete in the Mystic Lake Invitational, and for the Hatch Brown Trophy on Sept. 13. The women's team will race for the Regis Trophy at Harvard on Sept. 13.
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