STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford sailing opened its 2014-15 season with a third-place finish at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl hosted by Dartmouth.
Depth was key at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl as the Cardinal had the top boat in the B-division of the two-division event. Stanford finished sixth in the A Division behind the strong sailing of sophomores Lily Katz and Maeve White and kept the gap close for the B boat to move the Cardinal up in the standings.
Sophomore Holly Tullo and junior Yuki Yoshiyasu led the B boat to three victories and finished second in three other races en route to its division-best point total of 118, six points clear of second-place Bowdoin. Bowdoin and Stanford tied for second in the overall team standings with 254 points behind the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (205), but Bowdoin won the tiebreaker.
The Cardinal also competed for the Hatch Brown Trophy at MIT over the weekend and placed 15th of 18 teams with 530 points in the three-division event.
Senior Hans Henken and sophomore Quinn Vangelos picked up three top-five finishes in the A-division boat for the Cardinal. Sophomore Reinier Eenkema van Dijk and junior Sammy Steele steered the B-division boat to a top finish of second place in the 11th race of the weekend.
Stanford again enjoyed good results from its depth, as the Cardinal’s C-division boat finished in a team-high eighth place. The all-sophomore crew led by Scott Buckstaff also picked up the Cardinal’s only individual race victory of the event in their 12th race. Nikki Obel and J.P. Cannistraro rotated in alongside Buckstaff with Obel in the boat for the victory.
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Helena Scutt ’14 competed at the ISAF World Championships last week in Santander, Spain. Scutt, a former captain of Stanford sailing, raced with Paris Henken, the younger sister of current Stanford sailing senior Hans Henken, to a 29th-place finish out of 55 teams. The duo finished fourth in the silver division to lock up the top finish by an American team, which earned the pair the top spot on the US Sailing Team for the 49erFX Women division.