Brown University
Thompson Team Race
No. 3 Women’s Sailing Finishes Second at NEISA Women’s Team Race Championship, No. 8 Open Sailing Wins Oberg Trophy
4/13/2026 1:00:00 PM | Women's Sailing, Coed Sailing
The Bears posted a second place finish for the second-straight weekend in the first two New England spring championships. The women's team led for most of the championship, with tight scores between the top six teams for the majority of the event. Brown finished with a 12-7 overall record behind No. 2 Yale, competing against the top 10 teams in New England. Following Yale's win, the Bulldogs earned automatic qualification to the College Sailing Women's Team Race National Championship at Tulane on April 26-27. The rest of the field, along with the open field will be announced tomorrow, April 14, at 7 p.m. by the College Selection Committee.
The open team competed in the three-division Oberg Trophy Fleet Race at MIT hosted by Northeastern. The Bears went on to win the 18-team event by 45 points over second place Boston College. Brown finished top two in all three divisions, with William Baker '29 and crews Kyoko Tonkin '29 and Talia Levine '26 winning the C-Division by an impressive 23 points, including 11 top three finishes out of 14 races.
The open team also sent a squad to the Thompson Team Race Trophy at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy over the weekend. Brown finished in fifth place out of 16 teams after losing a three-way tiebreaker for third place, with a 10-5 record.
Up Next
The open team will host the New England Open Fleet Race Championship at the Ted Turner '60 Pavilion at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston, R.I.. They will also compete in the Boston Dinghy Cup at MIT on Saturday, and the George Morris Trophy on Sunday. The women's team will head to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy for the New England Women's Fleet Race Championship. Two automatic qualification bids will be up for grabs at each New England Fleet Race for the College Sailing Open and Women's Fleet Race National Championship hosted by USF from May 14-22.
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