* From Ken Legler: Regarding Ty Reed's complaint about qualifying for
college women's nationals, I can sympathize with not qualifying, our
Tufts team didn't make it last year. I cannot however, agreee with any
of his assertions.
Our fifth place finish at 26-race New Englands was pretty good, not
mediocre. We were up against Yale with Molly Carapiet, the only North
American skipper (male or female) to beat Paige Railey in a Radial
since 2004. Combined with Emily Hill, Yale won 2004 nationals while
Harvard, with current skipper Sloan Devlon won 2005 nationals. Boston
College had very comfortable 420 boatspeed at home, especially with
world class skipper Leigh Kempton. Just to get fifth we had to hold
off MIT who had recently finished 2nd in the 15-Presidents Trophy and
solid teams from Brown and Connecticut.
Historicaly nationals has been absolutely dominated by NEISA mostly and
MAISA (Mid-Atlantic). In the 39 nationals so far NE teams have won 23
times, MA team 14 and PC team only twice. In the past 24 years for
which I could find records, NE teams have 15 firsts and 16 seconds. NE
swept the top three four times, the top four twice and the top five
once in 1989.
As far as NEISA and MAISA coaches exploting the system, I hardly think
encouraging participation in these two growing conferences is
exploitation. I think the changes made to find the right teams for
nationals is pretty close, thanks to all the hard work these coaches do
at meetings while understanding the economic constraints of the smaller
teams.
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