Elena VandenBerg Season 2017-18

As a Senior (2017-18)

• ICSA All-America Honorable Mention crew
• All-PCCSC Crew
• Won the Conference Match Race Championships with Jack Parkin and Romain Screve (Sept. 23-24)
• Finished second in the A-division with Jack Parkin at the Jesuit Open (Sept. 30-Oct. 1)
• Finished fourth in the B-division with Jack Parkin at the Hoyt Trophy (Oct. 21-22)
• Finished fifth with Romain Screve and Jack Parkin at Match Race Nationals (Nov. 10-12)
• Bow for Stanford's win at the Big Sail (Nov. 14)
• Served as crew for Stanford's first-place finish and 19-1 record at the Mendelblatt Team Races (Feb. 24-25)
• Served as crew for Stanford's second-place finish and 11-4 record at the Szambecki Team Race (March 24-25)
• Served as crew for Stanford's ninth-place finish and 12-10 record at the Lynne Marciando Team Race (March 31-April 1)
• Finished sixth in the B Division with skipper Jack Parkin to help Stanford to a second-place finish at the Thompson Trophy (April 14-15)
• Served as crew as Stanford went 10-0 and won the team race conference title (April 28-29)
• Second in the A Division with skipper Jack Parkin to lead Stanford to the coed conference title (April 28-29)  
• Served as crew for Stanford's 14-8 record and fifth-place finish at the Team Race National Championships (May 26-27)
• Served as crew to help Stanford to a fourth-place finish in the B Division of the Gill Coed National Semifinals (May 29-June 1)

As a Junior (2016-17)

• Finished fourth in the PCCSC Match Race Championship (Oct. 1-2).
• Finished sixth in the B-division of the Navy Fall Women’s with Mimi El-Khazindar, helping Stanford finish sixth overall (Oct. 8-9).
• Skippered Stanford’s B-squad to a ninth-place finish in the B-division at the Mrs. Hurst Bowl (Oct. 22-23).
• Won the B-division of the PCCSC Fall Women’s with Mimi El-Khazindar (Oct. 29-30).
• Finished ninth in the B-division of the Charleston Spring Coed with Julia Lambert (March 11-12).
• Helped Stanford finish ninth at the Emily Wick Women’s Trophy, taking 11th place in the B-division (April 8-9).
• Won the B-division of the PCCSC Coed Championship, helping Stanford win the championship (April 28-29).
• Finished fourth in the B-division of the Sperry Women’s Championship, helping Stanford finish fifth overall (May 23-26).
• Helped Stanford finish seventh in the LaserPerformance Team Race Championship with an 11-11 overall record (May 23-26).

As a Sophomore (2015-16)

• Finished third at the Trojan Women’s Invite with Olivia Gugliemini (Sept. 27).
• Won the B-division of the Navy Fall Women’s with MiMi El-Khazindar, helping the Cardinal take seventh place (Oct. 11).
• Took fifth place at the Fall Women’s PCCSC Championship with Meg Gerli (Nov. 1).
• Served as crew at the Jeremy McIntyre Team Race, helping the Cardinal to a third place finish and a 7-2 record (Feb 27-28). 
• Sailed in the North Gold Regatta to a fifth place finish in Division A (Mar. 19-20).
• Sailed in the Dellenbaugh Women’s trophy to a third place finish in Division B (Apr. 2-3).
• Sailed in the St. Francis Invitational to a first place finish in Division A (Apr. 2-3).
• Sailed in the South Championship to a sixth place finish in Division A (Apr. 9-10).
• Sailed in the Women’s PCCSC Championships to a first place finish in Division B (Apr. 16-17).
• Sailed in the Sperry Women’s Eastern Semifinal to an eleventh place finish in Division A (May. 24-25).
• Sailed in the Sperry College Sailing Women’s National Championship to a sixteenth place finish in Division A (May 26-27).

As a Freshman (2014-2015) 

• Made her season debut at the Yale Women’s Intersectional, where she skippered the Cardinal to third place in the B-division and fifth overall (Oct. 18)
• Helped Stanford claim the Fall Women’s PCCSC, winning the B-division with crew Haley Fox (Oct. 25)
• Skippered Stanford’s B-unit to sixth place at the Nickerson Trophy, where the Cardinal took third place (Nov. 1)
• Participated as a crew at the Friis Team Race (Mar. 28)
• Skippered the A-unit to third place at the St. Francis Invitational, in which Stanford took third as a group (Apr. 4)
• With Scott Buckstaff, finished fifth at the Stanford Cardinal/White Regatta (Apr. 12)
• Served as a crew at the Navy Spring, helping Stanford finish third in the B-division and third overall (Apr. 19)
• Helped Stanford win the B-division and the overall title at the Mark Healy Coed Conference Championship (May 2)

The VandenBerg File

• Team captain and four-year varsity skipper at Archbishop Spalding in Severn, Md.
• 2014 Gary Jobson Junior All-Star
• Sixth overall at the 2013 US Youth Sailing Championship and top girl skipper
• Fourth place at the 2013 Buzzards Bay Regatta
• Fifth place at the 2013 Club 420 North American Championship and top girl skipper
• Third at the 2013 US Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championship
• Competed for the Annapolis Yacht Club 420 Race Team from 2010-2013
• Hobbies include photography, skiing, scuba diving, biking, and exploring nature
• Planning on concentrating in Architectural Design for a future career as an architect
• Daughter of Gerard and Isabel VandenBerg
• Has one younger brother, Marc