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All-Conference Honors

STANFORD, Calif. - Eight Cardinal earned all-conference honors from the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference (PCCSC), including Coed Rookie of the Year Romain Screve and Women's Rookie of the Year Christina Sakellaris. 

Among those named to the All-PCCSC Women's team were skippers Mimi El-Khazindar, Julia Lambert and Sakellaris. Lambert was one of two finalists for Women's Sailor of the Year, which was won by UCSB's Simone Staff, while Stephanie Houck was also a finalist for Women's Rookie of the Year. 

Skippers Will La Dow and Screve were All-PCCSC Coed. Freshman teammate Jack Parkin and UCSB's Lucas Pierce were also finalists for the Coed Rookie of the Year award, while Screve and La Dow were finalists for Coed Sailor of the Year, which was won by UCSB's Chris Weis.  

Taylor Kirkpatrick, Kennedy Placek and Elena Vandenberg were All-PCCSC Crews. 

The Cardinal, which recently captured the PCCSC Women's Championship for the 14th successive season, competed the trifecta of conference championships for the ninth season in a row with two more wins this past weekend. In his 10 years in charge of the program, John Vandemoer has won 29 of 30 possible PCCSC spring championships, with the only non-win coming in his first season on The Farm.

Stanford has earned spots in all three Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) National Championships. The three ICSA national championship regattas are to be held May 22-June 1 in Norfolk, Virginia.