Sailing History
Note: Sailing became a varsity sport at Brown prior to the 2020-21 academic year. Before that, the programs competed as club sports.
Top-Three College Sailing National Championship Results:
Women's Dinghy National Championship
2019 Newport, RI – 1st Place
2016 San Diego, CA – 2nd Place
2015 Newport, RI – 3rd Place
2008 Newport, RI – 2nd Place
1998 New Orleans, LA – 1st Place
1997 Portland, OR – 2nd Place
1991 – 2nd Place
1990 – 2nd Place
1989 – 1st Place
1988 – 1st Place
1987 – 2nd Place
1986 – 2nd Place
1985 – 1st Place
Women's Team Race National Championship
2023 Stanford, CA – 3rd Place
Women's Singlehanded National Championship
2023 New Orleans, LA – Katharine Doble ’26 – 2nd Place
2016 Galveston, TX – Lindsey Baab ’18 – 3rd Place
2015 Norfolk, VA – Lindsey Baab ’18 – 2nd Place
2014 Bellingham, WA – Lindsey Baab ’18 – 2nd Place
Coed Dinghy National Championship
2022 New Orleans, LA – 3rd Place
2010 Madison, WI – 3rd Place
1991 – 2nd Place
1986 – 2nd Place
1956 – 2nd Place
1949 – 2nd Place
1948 – 1st Place
1947 – 3rd Place
1943 – 3rd Place
1942 – 1st Place
1941 – 3rd Place
1940 – 3rd Place
1939 – 3rd Place
1938 – 2nd Place
Coed Team Race National Championship
2023 King's Point, NY – 3rd Place
2013 St. Petersburg, FL – 3rd Place
1993 Norfolk, VA – 3rd Place
Men's Singlehanded National Championship
2024 St. Petersburg, FL - Guthrie Braun '26 – 2nd place
2009 Corpus Christi, TX – Fred Strammer ‘11 – 2nd Place
1988 New London, CT – Kevin Hall '92 – 2nd Place
Match Racing National Championship
2024 Oyster Bay, NY – 2nd place
2023 Charleston, SC – 1st place
2022 San Diego, CA – 3rd Place
2010 King’s Point, NY – 3rd Place
Leonard Fowle Trophy (Best Overall Team in College Sailing)
2024 – 1st place
2023 – 3rd Place
1991 – 1st place
Awards
Brown Athletics Hall of Fame (as of 2025)
Leonard A. Romagna '42
Robert W. McCullough '43
Glen S. Foster II '52
Thomas E. Hazlehurst '56
Robert E. "Ted" Turner '60
Kevin A. Hall '92
Katherine McDowell '98
Kristina Farrar Stookey '91
Sarah "Pease" Glaser '83
Charles Enright '08
Brown Sailing ICSA Honors (as of 2025)
ICSA Hall of Fame
Janet Lutz, A.D.
Prescott W.H. Gustafson '36
Leonard A. Romagna '42
Robert W. McCullough '43
Frederick H. Wilson, Jr. '49
Charles L. Ill '49
Glen S. Foster, II '52
Thomas E. Hazelhurst '56
John C. Quinn '56
Robert E. “Ted” Turner '60
Susan Blackman '85
Julie Starkweather '85
ICSA/Quantum Women's Sailor of the Year
Ragna Agerup, 2019
All-Americans
Nathaniel Phibrick, 1978
Doug Smith, *1984
James Cummiskey, 1985
Paul Grimes, 1985, 1986
Molly Starkweather, *1986
David Ullrich, 1986, 1987
Kevin Hall, 1988, 1989, 1991
Kristina Farrar, 1989, 1990, 1991
Michael Zani, 1990, 1991, 1993
Brian Doyle, *1992
Richard Feeny, 1992, 1993
Katie McDowell, 1997
Christopher Ashley, 2002, 2003, 2004
Patrick Rynne, 2005
Charles Enright, *2004, *2005, *2006, *2008
Richard Hale, *2006
Hugh Cullman III, *2007
Andrew Perry, 2008
Frederick Strammer, *2009, *2010, 2011
William Brown, 2010
Jeffrey Knowles, *2010
Colin Smith, *2012, 2013
Tommy Fink, 2013
Pearson Potts, *2015, 2016
Patrick Shanahan, 2019
Ragna Agerup, *2019, 2020
Olivia Belda, *2021
Jack Murphy, *2022
Connor Nelson,*2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
Liam O'Keefe, 2023, 2024
Guthrie Braun, *2023
Women’s All-Americans
Ellie Field, 1987
Fran Fogelman, 1987, 1988
Kristina Farrar, 1988
Hannah Swett, 1989, 1991
Nicole Ullrich, 1988, 1989, 1990
Amy Lawser, 1990
Melissa Purdy, 1990, 1991
Chelsie Wheeler, 1994, 1995
Amy Rosenfeld, 1997
Katie McDowell, 1997, 1998
Hillary Drohan, *1998
Whitney Besse, *2001, *2002, 2003
Emma Lichtenstein, 2002, 2003
Anne Davidson, 2005
Katherine Lovelace, *2005
Charlotte Lipschitz, *2008
Elizabeth Barry, *2008, 2010, 2011
Emily Dellenbaugh, *2010, *2011, 2012
Sky Adams, *2012
Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick, *2014, *2015, *2016, 2017
Lindsey Baab, 2017, 2018
Sophie Hibben, *2019
Ragna Agerup, *2018, 2019, 2020
Hannah Steadman, *2018, 2019, 2020
Olivia Belda, *2020, 2021, 2022
Caroline Bayless, *2022, *2023
Blaire McCarthy, *2023
Brielle Willoughby, 2024
Katharine Doble, *2024
All-American Crews
Ali Hill, 1985
Kathy Brinsfield, 1986
Virginia Verney, 1989, 1990, 1991
Blaire Largay, 1990, 1991
Brad Gibbs, 1991
Suzannah Kerr, 1993, 1995
Dena Connolly, 1997
Heather Tow-Yick, 1997, 1998
Marisa Ihara, 2002, 2003
Alison Berenback, 2003, 2004
Vanessa Lipschitz, 2004
Louise Sherman, 2005
Arlene Chung, 2005, 2006
Monica Stein, 2007
Meris Tombari, 2008
Maria Mahler-Haug, 2008, 2009
Theresa O'Neil, 2010
Sara Evans, 2010, 2011
Louisa Chafee, 2012, 2013, 2014
Ashley Noble, 2013
Lydia Whiteford, 2015
Marina Cano, 2016
Haley Carter, *2017
Julia Kim, 2018
Maxine de Havenon, *2019
Annabelle Hutchinson, 2020, 2021
Julia Reynolds, 2019, 2020, 2022
Madeleine McGrath, *2020, 2022
Emma Montgomery, *2022
Isabel Cox, 2023
Nora Ong, 2023
Savannah Young, 2023, 2024
Vera Allen, 2024
*Honorable Mention
All-Ivy Women's Team (starting in 2022)
Olivia Belda '22 – 2022 1st Team Skipper
Emma Montgomery '22 – 2022 1st Team Crew *Unanimous selection
Caroline Bayless '23 – 2022 2nd Team Skipper
Maddy McGrath '22 – 2022 2nd Team Crew
Emma Montgomery '22 – 2022 Crew of the Championship
John Mollicone – 2022 Coach of the Year, 2023 Coach of the Year
Brielle Willoughby – 2023 1st Team Skipper
Savannah Young – 2023 1st Team Crew
Blaire McCarthy – 2023 2nd Team Skipper
Emi Ruth – 2023 2nd Team Crew
Brianna Ross '26 – 2024 1st Team Crew
Brielle Willoughby '24 – 2024 1st Team Skipper
At-Large Academic All-Ivy Team (starting in 2021 as varsity program)
Annabelle Hutchinson ’21 – 2020-2021
Olivia Belda ’22 – 2020-2021
Olivia Belda '22 – 2021-2022
Emma Montgomery '22 – 2021-2022
Blaire McCarthy '23 – 2022-2023
Nora Ong '23 – 2022-2023
Lily Shore '24 – 2023-2024
NEISA Honor Roll
2011 John Mollicone and Dan Rabin (Silver Medal at 2011 Pan-American Games in J-24 and J-24 World Champions in 2010)
2015 Charlie Enright ’08 and Mark Towill ’11 (Volvo Ocean Race/Team Alvimedica)
2018 Pearson Potts ’16 (Prince of Wales Match Race Champion)
2023 Charlie Enright '08 and Mark Towill '11 (2023 Ocean Race Winners/11th Hour Racing)
ICSA All-Academic **
Arlene Chung, 2006
Andrew Perry, *2007, 2008
Meris Tombari, *2007, *2008
Maria Mahler-Haug, *2008, *2009
Charlotte Lipschitz, 2009, 2010
Jeffrey Knowles, 2010
Theresa O'Neil, 2010
Emily Dellenbaugh, 2011, 2012
Margot Elmaleh, 2012
Colin Smith, **2012, *2013
Michael Yanagisawa, **2013
Sky Adams, **2013, *2014
Helen Lord, 2014
Louisa Chafee, **2014
Tyler Rice, **2014
Drew Shea, **2014
Johanna Kincaid, **2014, 2015
Kelly McGlynn, **2014, 2015
Lucas Adams, 2015
Peter Bailey, 2015
Timothy Harding, 2015
Nicole Quattrocchi, 2015
Nathan Allman, 2015, 2016
James Barry, 2015, 2016
Ragna Eide, 2015, 2016
Jessie O'Dell, 2015, 2016
Pearson Potts, 2015, 2016
Reid Secondo, 2015, 2016
Katherine Sudol, 2015, 2016
Alexandra Swanson, 2015, 2016
Marina Cano, 2016, 2017
Haley Carter, 2016, 2017
Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick, 2016, 2017
Rachel Gutman, 2016, 2017
Olivia Lord, 2016, 2017
Wyatt Sharpe, 2016, 2017
Eric Xiao, 2016, 2017
Quinn Andersen, 2017, 2018
Lindsey Baab, 2017, 2018
Franco Bilik, 2017, 2018
Grace Gagnon, 2017, 2018
Lauren Haller, 2017, 2018
Julia Kim, 2017, 2018
Maxine de Havenon, 2018, 2019
Sophie Hibben, 2018, 2019
Nathan Housberg, 2018, 2019
Emily Ito, 2018, 2019
Abigayle Konys, 2018, 2019
Megha Malpani, 2018, 2019
Patrick Shanahan, 2019
Davis Tantillo, 2019
Ragna Agerup, 2019, 2020
Sawyer Balint, 2019, 2020
Rachel Foster, 2019, 2020
Gabe Hannon, 2019, 2020
John Mastrandrea, 2019, 2020
Hannah Steadman, 2019, 2020
Justin Chiang, 2020
Annabelle Hutchinson, 2020
Zachary Jordan, 2020
Jack Papetti, 2020
Julia Reynolds, 2020, 2022
Olivia Belda, 2022
Madeleine McGrath, 2022
Emma Montgomery, 2022
Jack Murphy, 2022
Caroline Bayless, 2022, 2023
Jed Bell, 2022, 2023
Izzy Cox, 2022, 2023
William George , 2023
Blaire McCarthy, 2022, 2023
Nora Ong, 2022, 2023
Emi Ruth, 2022, 2023
Hunter Zonnenberg, 2022, 2023
Sierra Bornheim, 2023, 2024
Carly Costikyan, 2023, 2024
Connor Macken , 2023, 2024
Catherine Morrissette, 2023, 2024
Connor Nelson, 2023
Lucian Sharpe, 2023, 2024
Lily Shore, 2023, 2024
Tommy Styron, 2023
Brielle Willoughby, 2023, 2024
Spencer Dellenbaugh, 2022, 2023, 2024
Grant Adam, 2024
Leyton Borcherding, 2024
Francesca Edmands, 2024
Helen Horangic, 2024
Menasha Leport, 2024
Janelle Li, 2024
Olivia Miller, 2024
Keller Morrison, 2024
Emily Mueller, 2024
William Salerno, 2024
Mason Stang, 2024
Anna Steffen, 2024
Savannah Young, 2024
*Second Team
**All-Conference Team
Top-Three College Sailing National Championship Results:
Women's Dinghy National Championship
2019 Newport, RI – 1st Place
2016 San Diego, CA – 2nd Place
2015 Newport, RI – 3rd Place
2008 Newport, RI – 2nd Place
1998 New Orleans, LA – 1st Place
1997 Portland, OR – 2nd Place
1991 – 2nd Place
1990 – 2nd Place
1989 – 1st Place
1988 – 1st Place
1987 – 2nd Place
1986 – 2nd Place
1985 – 1st Place
Women's Team Race National Championship
2023 Stanford, CA – 3rd Place
Women's Singlehanded National Championship
2023 New Orleans, LA – Katharine Doble ’26 – 2nd Place
2016 Galveston, TX – Lindsey Baab ’18 – 3rd Place
2015 Norfolk, VA – Lindsey Baab ’18 – 2nd Place
2014 Bellingham, WA – Lindsey Baab ’18 – 2nd Place
Coed Dinghy National Championship
2022 New Orleans, LA – 3rd Place
2010 Madison, WI – 3rd Place
1991 – 2nd Place
1986 – 2nd Place
1956 – 2nd Place
1949 – 2nd Place
1948 – 1st Place
1947 – 3rd Place
1943 – 3rd Place
1942 – 1st Place
1941 – 3rd Place
1940 – 3rd Place
1939 – 3rd Place
1938 – 2nd Place
Coed Team Race National Championship
2023 King's Point, NY – 3rd Place
2013 St. Petersburg, FL – 3rd Place
1993 Norfolk, VA – 3rd Place
Men's Singlehanded National Championship
2024 St. Petersburg, FL - Guthrie Braun '26 – 2nd place
2009 Corpus Christi, TX – Fred Strammer ‘11 – 2nd Place
1988 New London, CT – Kevin Hall '92 – 2nd Place
Match Racing National Championship
2024 Oyster Bay, NY – 2nd place
2023 Charleston, SC – 1st place
2022 San Diego, CA – 3rd Place
2010 King’s Point, NY – 3rd Place
Leonard Fowle Trophy (Best Overall Team in College Sailing)
2024 – 1st place
2023 – 3rd Place
1991 – 1st place
Awards
Brown Athletics Hall of Fame (as of 2025)
Leonard A. Romagna '42
Robert W. McCullough '43
Glen S. Foster II '52
Thomas E. Hazlehurst '56
Robert E. "Ted" Turner '60
Kevin A. Hall '92
Katherine McDowell '98
Kristina Farrar Stookey '91
Sarah "Pease" Glaser '83
Charles Enright '08
Brown Sailing ICSA Honors (as of 2025)
ICSA Hall of Fame
Janet Lutz, A.D.
Prescott W.H. Gustafson '36
Leonard A. Romagna '42
Robert W. McCullough '43
Frederick H. Wilson, Jr. '49
Charles L. Ill '49
Glen S. Foster, II '52
Thomas E. Hazelhurst '56
John C. Quinn '56
Robert E. “Ted” Turner '60
Susan Blackman '85
Julie Starkweather '85
ICSA/Quantum Women's Sailor of the Year
Ragna Agerup, 2019
All-Americans
Nathaniel Phibrick, 1978
Doug Smith, *1984
James Cummiskey, 1985
Paul Grimes, 1985, 1986
Molly Starkweather, *1986
David Ullrich, 1986, 1987
Kevin Hall, 1988, 1989, 1991
Kristina Farrar, 1989, 1990, 1991
Michael Zani, 1990, 1991, 1993
Brian Doyle, *1992
Richard Feeny, 1992, 1993
Katie McDowell, 1997
Christopher Ashley, 2002, 2003, 2004
Patrick Rynne, 2005
Charles Enright, *2004, *2005, *2006, *2008
Richard Hale, *2006
Hugh Cullman III, *2007
Andrew Perry, 2008
Frederick Strammer, *2009, *2010, 2011
William Brown, 2010
Jeffrey Knowles, *2010
Colin Smith, *2012, 2013
Tommy Fink, 2013
Pearson Potts, *2015, 2016
Patrick Shanahan, 2019
Ragna Agerup, *2019, 2020
Olivia Belda, *2021
Jack Murphy, *2022
Connor Nelson,*2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
Liam O'Keefe, 2023, 2024
Guthrie Braun, *2023
Women’s All-Americans
Ellie Field, 1987
Fran Fogelman, 1987, 1988
Kristina Farrar, 1988
Hannah Swett, 1989, 1991
Nicole Ullrich, 1988, 1989, 1990
Amy Lawser, 1990
Melissa Purdy, 1990, 1991
Chelsie Wheeler, 1994, 1995
Amy Rosenfeld, 1997
Katie McDowell, 1997, 1998
Hillary Drohan, *1998
Whitney Besse, *2001, *2002, 2003
Emma Lichtenstein, 2002, 2003
Anne Davidson, 2005
Katherine Lovelace, *2005
Charlotte Lipschitz, *2008
Elizabeth Barry, *2008, 2010, 2011
Emily Dellenbaugh, *2010, *2011, 2012
Sky Adams, *2012
Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick, *2014, *2015, *2016, 2017
Lindsey Baab, 2017, 2018
Sophie Hibben, *2019
Ragna Agerup, *2018, 2019, 2020
Hannah Steadman, *2018, 2019, 2020
Olivia Belda, *2020, 2021, 2022
Caroline Bayless, *2022, *2023
Blaire McCarthy, *2023
Brielle Willoughby, 2024
Katharine Doble, *2024
All-American Crews
Ali Hill, 1985
Kathy Brinsfield, 1986
Virginia Verney, 1989, 1990, 1991
Blaire Largay, 1990, 1991
Brad Gibbs, 1991
Suzannah Kerr, 1993, 1995
Dena Connolly, 1997
Heather Tow-Yick, 1997, 1998
Marisa Ihara, 2002, 2003
Alison Berenback, 2003, 2004
Vanessa Lipschitz, 2004
Louise Sherman, 2005
Arlene Chung, 2005, 2006
Monica Stein, 2007
Meris Tombari, 2008
Maria Mahler-Haug, 2008, 2009
Theresa O'Neil, 2010
Sara Evans, 2010, 2011
Louisa Chafee, 2012, 2013, 2014
Ashley Noble, 2013
Lydia Whiteford, 2015
Marina Cano, 2016
Haley Carter, *2017
Julia Kim, 2018
Maxine de Havenon, *2019
Annabelle Hutchinson, 2020, 2021
Julia Reynolds, 2019, 2020, 2022
Madeleine McGrath, *2020, 2022
Emma Montgomery, *2022
Isabel Cox, 2023
Nora Ong, 2023
Savannah Young, 2023, 2024
Vera Allen, 2024
*Honorable Mention
All-Ivy Women's Team (starting in 2022)
Olivia Belda '22 – 2022 1st Team Skipper
Emma Montgomery '22 – 2022 1st Team Crew *Unanimous selection
Caroline Bayless '23 – 2022 2nd Team Skipper
Maddy McGrath '22 – 2022 2nd Team Crew
Emma Montgomery '22 – 2022 Crew of the Championship
John Mollicone – 2022 Coach of the Year, 2023 Coach of the Year
Brielle Willoughby – 2023 1st Team Skipper
Savannah Young – 2023 1st Team Crew
Blaire McCarthy – 2023 2nd Team Skipper
Emi Ruth – 2023 2nd Team Crew
Brianna Ross '26 – 2024 1st Team Crew
Brielle Willoughby '24 – 2024 1st Team Skipper
At-Large Academic All-Ivy Team (starting in 2021 as varsity program)
Annabelle Hutchinson ’21 – 2020-2021
Olivia Belda ’22 – 2020-2021
Olivia Belda '22 – 2021-2022
Emma Montgomery '22 – 2021-2022
Blaire McCarthy '23 – 2022-2023
Nora Ong '23 – 2022-2023
Lily Shore '24 – 2023-2024
NEISA Honor Roll
2011 John Mollicone and Dan Rabin (Silver Medal at 2011 Pan-American Games in J-24 and J-24 World Champions in 2010)
2015 Charlie Enright ’08 and Mark Towill ’11 (Volvo Ocean Race/Team Alvimedica)
2018 Pearson Potts ’16 (Prince of Wales Match Race Champion)
2023 Charlie Enright '08 and Mark Towill '11 (2023 Ocean Race Winners/11th Hour Racing)
ICSA All-Academic **
Arlene Chung, 2006
Andrew Perry, *2007, 2008
Meris Tombari, *2007, *2008
Maria Mahler-Haug, *2008, *2009
Charlotte Lipschitz, 2009, 2010
Jeffrey Knowles, 2010
Theresa O'Neil, 2010
Emily Dellenbaugh, 2011, 2012
Margot Elmaleh, 2012
Colin Smith, **2012, *2013
Michael Yanagisawa, **2013
Sky Adams, **2013, *2014
Helen Lord, 2014
Louisa Chafee, **2014
Tyler Rice, **2014
Drew Shea, **2014
Johanna Kincaid, **2014, 2015
Kelly McGlynn, **2014, 2015
Lucas Adams, 2015
Peter Bailey, 2015
Timothy Harding, 2015
Nicole Quattrocchi, 2015
Nathan Allman, 2015, 2016
James Barry, 2015, 2016
Ragna Eide, 2015, 2016
Jessie O'Dell, 2015, 2016
Pearson Potts, 2015, 2016
Reid Secondo, 2015, 2016
Katherine Sudol, 2015, 2016
Alexandra Swanson, 2015, 2016
Marina Cano, 2016, 2017
Haley Carter, 2016, 2017
Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick, 2016, 2017
Rachel Gutman, 2016, 2017
Olivia Lord, 2016, 2017
Wyatt Sharpe, 2016, 2017
Eric Xiao, 2016, 2017
Quinn Andersen, 2017, 2018
Lindsey Baab, 2017, 2018
Franco Bilik, 2017, 2018
Grace Gagnon, 2017, 2018
Lauren Haller, 2017, 2018
Julia Kim, 2017, 2018
Maxine de Havenon, 2018, 2019
Sophie Hibben, 2018, 2019
Nathan Housberg, 2018, 2019
Emily Ito, 2018, 2019
Abigayle Konys, 2018, 2019
Megha Malpani, 2018, 2019
Patrick Shanahan, 2019
Davis Tantillo, 2019
Ragna Agerup, 2019, 2020
Sawyer Balint, 2019, 2020
Rachel Foster, 2019, 2020
Gabe Hannon, 2019, 2020
John Mastrandrea, 2019, 2020
Hannah Steadman, 2019, 2020
Justin Chiang, 2020
Annabelle Hutchinson, 2020
Zachary Jordan, 2020
Jack Papetti, 2020
Julia Reynolds, 2020, 2022
Olivia Belda, 2022
Madeleine McGrath, 2022
Emma Montgomery, 2022
Jack Murphy, 2022
Caroline Bayless, 2022, 2023
Jed Bell, 2022, 2023
Izzy Cox, 2022, 2023
William George , 2023
Blaire McCarthy, 2022, 2023
Nora Ong, 2022, 2023
Emi Ruth, 2022, 2023
Hunter Zonnenberg, 2022, 2023
Sierra Bornheim, 2023, 2024
Carly Costikyan, 2023, 2024
Connor Macken , 2023, 2024
Catherine Morrissette, 2023, 2024
Connor Nelson, 2023
Lucian Sharpe, 2023, 2024
Lily Shore, 2023, 2024
Tommy Styron, 2023
Brielle Willoughby, 2023, 2024
Spencer Dellenbaugh, 2022, 2023, 2024
Grant Adam, 2024
Leyton Borcherding, 2024
Francesca Edmands, 2024
Helen Horangic, 2024
Menasha Leport, 2024
Janelle Li, 2024
Olivia Miller, 2024
Keller Morrison, 2024
Emily Mueller, 2024
William Salerno, 2024
Mason Stang, 2024
Anna Steffen, 2024
Savannah Young, 2024
*Second Team
**All-Conference Team
