College Sailing Community,
As you are likely aware, the Coed National Semifinals are this
weekend, May 2-3 at Fan Pier in Boston, the site of the Race Village
for the Volvo Ocean Race. This year, collegesailing.org and
sailgroove.org will both be delivering unprecedented coverage of the
event. Collegesailing.org has all the regatta info up now and will be
carrying live scoring and jury decisions during the event.
Sailgroove.org will be broadcasting the regatta live over the internet.
If you cannot be in Boston this weekend, be sure to tune in to
collegesailing.org and sailgroove.org all weekend.
Direct links: www.collegesailing.org/neisa/semis09,
www.sailgroove.org/videos/coverage/view/234920-college-sailing-coed-nationals-semifinals
Chris Love
Sailgroove.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Chris Love, [email protected], 774-217-3394
SAILGROOVE.ORG TO BROADCAST COLLEGE SAILING NATIONAL SEMIFINALS LIVE
BOSTON, MA - April 29, 2009 — Sailgroove.org is busy finalizing the
details for its free live internet broadcast of the 36-team
Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) National Semifinals
regatta this weekend, May 2-3, from the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) Village
at Fan Pier in Boston, MA. The Race Village opened to the public on
Saturday, April 25, a day ahead of the fleet of Volvo Open 70's, which
finished leg 6 of its epic round-the-world race on Sunday afternoon.
Fan Pier, the official home base for the VOR for the next two and a
half weeks, has a full schedule of events planned including music,
performances and numerous dinghy sailing events, perhaps most notably
the ICSA National Semifinals.
Sailgroove.org, the grassroots sailing website driven by its video
coverage of sailors and sailing regattas, is no stranger to the
college sailing world. The website has covered an impressive 10
college sailing regattas since the start of the season in February and
has produced hundreds of interviews with college sailors and coaches.
A typical Sailgroove regatta coverage includes races, interviews and
highlight video which can be viewed later that day, but this weekend's
coverage will stream live on the website and include multiple cameras
to bring viewers as close to the action as possible. All regatta
info, including live scoring and jury decision posts is available on
collegesailing.org.
This year will marks only the second running of ICSA's semifinal
format for its national championship. Prior to 2008, the seven
districts of collegiate sailing hosted their own qualifiers for the 18-
team championship regatta held at the end of May, but when some of the
top teams in the country failed to qualify because of the strength of
their home district, ICSA changed the format. In the new structure,
every district is represented in the first round of Nationals, but in
order to make the final cut, teams will have to sail their way in.
ICSA's intention was to hold both Eastern and Western semifinals at
venues on each coast, but moved the two regattas to the Boston harbor
venue at the invitation of Volvo Ocean Race. This weekend, MIT will
host the Eastern Semifinals and Harvard will host the Western
Semifinals simultaneously, on the same course. The top 9 schools from
each regatta will qualify for the ICSA/Gill Coed National Championship
hosted by Stanford University (Palo Alto) and the St. Francis Yacht
Club (San Francisco) June 1-3, 2009 in San Francisco.
Direct links: www.collegesailing.org/neisa/semis09,
www.sailgroove.org/videos/coverage/view/234920-college-sailing-coed-nationals-semifinals
ICSA is the governing authority for sailing competition at colleges
and universities throughout the United States and in some parts of
Canada. To learn more please visit: www.collegesailing.org. To
learn more about Sailgroove or this weekend's live coverage, visit www.sailgroove.org
.
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Teams competing:
May 2-3, 2009 - ICSA National Championship Western Semifinals
Hosted by Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) in FJs
Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)
California Maritime Academy (Vallejo, Calif.)
Connecticut College (New London, Conn.)
College of Charleston (Charleston, S.C.)
Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)
Hobart & William Smith Colleges (Geneva, N.Y.)
SUNY Maritime College (Throggs Neck, N.Y.)
University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.)
University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii)
University of Oklahoma (Norman, Ok.)
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Penn.)
University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minn.)
University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.)
University of South Florida (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
University of Texas (Austin, Texas)
Washington College (Chestertown, Md.)
Western Washington University (Bellingham, Wash.)
Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
May 2-3, 2009 - ICSA National Championship Eastern Semifinals
Hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) in
FJs
Boston University (Boston, Mass.)
Eckerd College (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)
Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.)
Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Va.)
Roger Williams University (Bristol, R.I.)
St. Mary's College (St. Mary’s City, Md.)
Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif.)
Texas A & M Galveston (Galveston, Texas)
Tufts University (Medford, Mass.)
Tulane University (New Orleans, La.)
U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, Md.)
University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
University of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minn.)
University of Vermont (Burlington, Vt.)
University of Washington (Seattle,
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