Grace Austin Season 2023-24

Career Accolades

• ICSA Open Fleet Race Champion (2022-23)
• ICSA Women's Fleet Race Champion (2022-23)
• Leonard M. Fowle Trophy (2022-23)
• ICSA All-America Crew Honorable Mention (2022-23)

As a Junior (2022-23)

• ICSA Open Fleet Race Champion
• ICSA Women's Fleet Race Champion
• Leonard M. Fowle Trophy
• ICSA All-America Crew Honorable Mention
• Held Stanford earn two national titles in the ICSA Women's Fleet Race Championship and the ICSA Open Fleet Race Championship
• Competed in 21 regattas across the fall and spring seasons for the Cardinal, helping Stanford to eight event wins
• Finished second overall in the PCCSC Women's Singlehanded Championship
• Sailed in three of Stanford's four PCCSC titles in the spring season, serving as crew in the PCCSC Open Team Race Championship, and both a skipper and crew in the PCCSC Women's Team and Women's Fleet Race Championships

As a Sophomore (2021-22)

• Finished first at the PCCSC Singlehanded Championships
• Finished eighth at the ICSA Singlehanded National Championships
• Crewed for Stanford in the ICSA Women's Team Race National Championships, helping Stanford to a third place finish
• Crewed for the A-Division boat in the ICSA Women's Fleet Race National Championships, helping Stanford to a third place finish, tying Stanford's best finish in the event from 2007
• Skippered the B-Division boat at the PCCSC Women's Fleet Race Championships, helping Stanford to a conference title
• Helped Stanford to 17 event wins during the fall and spring seasons

As a Freshman (2020-21)

• Finished fourth at the ICSA Singlehanded National Championships
• Sailed to 13th in the B-Division at the Thompson Trophy, helped Stanford’s second team take 12th overall. Stanford won head-to-head over Connecticut College.

Before Stanford

• Two-year sailing captain at Greenwich Academy
• Qualified as top junior female Laser Radial skipper in U.S., represented her country in the Hempel Youth World Championship in Gdynia, Poland in 2019
• Qualified as only female skipper for high school single-handed (Laser Radial) national championship (2019)
• Member of U.S. Olympic Development Team (Laser Radial)
• Two-time qualifier for NESSA Girl’s Championship Finals (2018, 2019)
• Qualified for Singlehanded ISSA Nationals twice (2018, 2019)
• Also lettered one season on cross country team

Quotable: “Grace is most well-known for her accomplishments in the Laser Radial, which she has focused on for the past several years. She is a dominant presence on the Radial circuit as a consistent top-5 finisher and represented the US at the 2019 Youth World Championships. While she will certainly help to continue our success in singlehanded sailing, we know she also has the ability to make a huge impact in doublehanded competition. Her natural athleticism and knowledge of the game will allow us to insert her into many different positions right away, a role she is eager to take advantage of.” - Brian Swingly