“I think we sailed well and were really resilient throughout all of the different changes,” Ladd said. “We’re pretty proud of ourselves.”
Coast Guard Academy, Boston College, URI, BU, and Yale were the top-five finishers in the group with a spread of 86 points from top to bottom. The Crimson sat in eighth until the final two races on the weekend as Vermont pulled ahead with top three finishes in both.
ADMIRAL’S CUP
Held at King’s Point, N.Y. by the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, the regatta featured three divisions of FJs, Lasers, and Z420s. With a field of 20 inter-conference schools racing at the event, Harvard barely finished in the top half with its tenth place, 336 point performance.
Nearly all of the competition was completed on Saturday when the conditions were more conducive for racing with northerly breezes of 8-12 knots and light rain throughout the day. The weather did not cooperate on Sunday, however, as a lack of breeze allowed few races to be competed.
The C-Division boat of freshman skipper Andrew Puopolo led the way for the Crimson on the weekend with his fourth place performance. The rookie accrued 73 points over his 11 races, finishing in the top-ten in nine of those events. The A and B-Division crews posted 143 and 120 points, respectively.
The Crimson barely bested fellow Ivy League competitor Penn, whose 337 points were just one shy of Harvard’s mark. St. Mary’s College of Maryland finished victorious with 173 points, finishing in the top two of the first and second divisions.
MORRIS TROPHY
In the second Harvard event on the Charles River Basin on the weekend, the Crimson finished in seventh. Competing in field of 18 inter-conference schools, the squad posted 143 points over 17 FJ races between the two divisions.
The conditions were relatively fair throughout the weekend with winds between four and eight knots from Saturday afternoon into Sunday after Saturday’s morning showers dissipated.
In the A-Division, fellow freshmen, skipper Nicholas Karnovsky and crew Alejandra Resendiz, put forth an eighth place, 80-point performance. The B-Division crew of senior skipper Adam Brodheim and crew Pryiscilla Russo accumulated 63 points over their eight races, good enough for seventh in the division.
Boston College led the way with its 70-point showing, while Tufts, Brown, Coast Guard and MIT rounded out the top five performers.
–Staff writer Jackson M. Reynolds can be reached at jacksonreynolds@thecrimson.com.