May 1, 2011
LONG BEACH, Calif.-- Stanford Sailing will send all three of its teams back to the National Championships for the fourth-straight year, after its coed team finished fifth at one of two National Semifinals on Sunday.
By securing one of the first nine spots with 150 points, the Cardinal women, team and coed teams will be represented on the Hood River in Oregon May 23 to May 29. The Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference champions for the second-straight year, were one of eight teams nationally which had all three teams represented last year.
Kevin Laube and Kelly Ortel skippered the B Division to 69 points, finishing in the top-eight in 10 of 12 races. Mateo Vargas and Rebecca King tallied 81 points in the A Division, finishing in the top half of the races in 11 of 12 races.
Laube and Ortel had started the day in second place in the B Division, but an 11th place finish to start day two, following six top-five finishes to start, knocked the duo down a couple of spots.
Georgetown won the Eastern Semifinals with 99 points, followed by Harvard (104), Navy (126) and College of Charleston (139).
Stanford entered the postseason ranked No. 10 nationally in the coed division and No. 8 in the women's division.
National Eastern Semifinals
(5th, 150 points)
http://scores.collegesailing.info/s11/icsa-coed-dinghy-national-champions/full-scores
A Division: (Vargas and King, 81 points)
B Division: (Laube and Ortel, 69 points)