WAIKIKI, Hawaii - Stanford sailing captured the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference (PCCSC) Coed and Team Race championships in Hawaii over the weekend to complete a ninth straight sweep of conference titles.
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 Sperry Women's Championship, the LaserPerformance Team Race Championship and the Gill Coed Championship.
Stanford won the coed title with 56 points. That bested second-place UC Santa Barbara, which finished with 64 points. Cal was third with 118 points. Stanford finished among the top two in all but two A Division races. Skipper Will La Dow and crew Taylor Kirkpatrick won four times, while skipper Jack Parkin and crew Elena Vandenberg posted a pair of runner-up finishes. That combination finished second in the A Division with 31 points. Meanwhile, the Cardinal was tops in the B Division behind skippers Romain Screve and Jacob Rosenberg, and crew Kennedy Placek and Kathryn Booker. They accounted for just 25 points with seven first-place finishes.
Stanford was perfect in the team race championships. Parkin and Vandenberg, Rosenberg and Booker, La Dow and Kirkpatrick, and Screve and Placek led the Cardinal to a 10-0 record. The Gauchos were second with a 7-2 mark. It marked the 11th consecutive team race conference title for the Cardinal.
The three ICSA national championship regattas are to be held May 22-June 1 in Norfolk, Virginia.
