Helen Horangic

Class:
Sophomore
Height:
5-8
Weight:
null
Hometown:
Palo Alto, Calif.
High School:
Castilleja School
Concentration:
Environmental Economics

2024-25: Finished first (A Division) in the Harry Anderson Regatta and Moody Trophy ... Placed third in the Regis Trophy and Stu Nelson Race ... Competed in the Sherman Hoyt and Schell Trophies ... Finished fourth in the Captain Hurst Bowl ... Competed in the Friis Team Race and Fowle Trophy ... Earned fourth place in the Liam O'Keefe Team Race Trophy and Thompson Trophy ... Finished fifth in the Graham Hall Team Race and ICSA Open Team Race National Championship ... Earned third placed at the Marchiando Trophy Regatta.

2023-24: Competed in the Harry Anderson Regatta, Hatch Brown Trophy, Open Atlantic Coach Championships (Round 1A), and Erwin Schell Trophy ... Placed fifth in the A Division of the Captain Hurst Bowl ... Finished fouth in the B Division of the Atlantic Coast Open Championship.

2022-23: Represented Brown at the Women’s and Open Team Race Nationals, helped the Bears place third in both events … Represented Brown at the Women’s Fleet Race Nationals, helped the Bears place 12^th… Helped Brown place first at the Team Race Invite, Duplin Women’s Team race, and Dellenbaugh Women’s Team Race … Competed during a total of 16 weekends for the Bears throughout the season.

2021-22: Represented the Bears at eight events throughout the year … Competed during the weekends of Sept. 11, Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Oct. 30, March 12, April 9, April 16, and April 23.

Before Brown: Placed fourth at the Brooke E. Gonzalez Regatta and 11^th at the Midwinters Championships in 2019 … Came in sixth at both the Canadian Nationals and Ida Lewis U.S. Women’s Junior Double-handed Championship as well as 12^th at the North American Championships in 2018 … Finished 11^th at the World Sailing Youth Worlds, fourth at the U.S. Youth Championships, and eighth at the Midwinters Championships in 2017 … Won the Most Improved Award at the 2016 U.S. Women’s Junior Double-handed Championship and the Brooke E. Gonzalez Award in 2017 … Earned 2017 First All-Female Team at the Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta … Gained 2017 Second All-Female Team at the Midwinters Championships … Garnered 2017 All-Female Team at the World Sailing Youth Worlds … Captured 2018 First All-Female Team at the Canadian Nationals.

Personal: Helen is the daughter of Caroline Hubbard and Basil Horangic … Has two siblings, Teddy and Basil; Teddy is a member of the Yale sailing Class of 2025 … Plans to concentrate in Environmental Economics.

Why Brown? “I was walking home after school, on one of my first days back on land since sailing around the world, when I rounded the final corner and couldn’t see our temporary rental house. Instead, a 45-foot-long passenger bus with a red and gold mural of a bald eagle holding the American flag and a banner that read ‘Texas’ painted along the side was parked in front. When I walked up, my dad shouted, ‘Get in, we’re moving!’ My family and I are nomads. We were never wired to remain in one place, comfortable with constancy. But when I come home to the bus (often in a new location) every day, my sister and I study together, my brother and I practice football together, all of us fall asleep together to the same sound: usually, depending on the neighborhood, the screeching of mating cats.
Our nomadic lifestyle requires us to call each other ‘home.’ But this insular definition of community hasn’t narrowed my perspective; it has broadened it. My greatest influences are people who took the road less traveled and stayed the course even when others gasped, ‘you’re crazy!’ They’re people who trust themselves and have visions of the future that are informed by their imagination, not what has already been done. With this definition of community, I am certain Brown will feel just like home.”