Members of NUST returned to the University of Wisconsin in Madison again this past weekend to compete in the Midwestern Collegiate Sailing Association's Team Race Qualifier. Six teams competed for two spots in the ICSA National Team Race Championships. NU unfortunately came in 3rd, behind nationally ranked Wisconsin and the ...
My name is David Kluger and I am a senior on the Northwestern Sailing Team studying biomedical engineering. I started sailing at summer camp when I was about 11 years old on the Chesapeake Bay. At this camp, I had the opportunity to sail Lasers, JY15s, Flying Scots, and Sunfish ...
Northwestern University Sailing Team ventured up to Madison, Wisconsin this past weekend. The first day of racing, Saturday, was uneventful. There was barely any wind, and with sailboats doing little more than bobbing about, the race was postponed until Sunday. Starting early Sunday morning, the sailors were surprised by a ...
On Friday, April 13, 8 members of the Northwestern Sailing Team, plus our coach Sam, filled two cars and headed off to Grosse Pointe, MI, for the 2012 MCSA Coed Fleet Racing Championship. Despite the ominous date, and the fact that this weekend was the 100th anniversary of the sinking ...
Every spring we host a regatta known through the MCSA as "Wet Your Willie." This year, Travis Cottle, Jane Jones, David Kluger, and Mariam Al Askari sailing for Northwestern. On Saturday, sailors were greeted to a nice sunny morning with temperatures in the low 60's all day. We raced on a ...
We send a whopping 14 teammates to Ann Arbor to test out our team-racing abilities and training over spring break. Seven teams arrived on Saturday morning to about 8 knots of breeze from the NE. The morning started a little late, but with steady breeze for racing. We got 13 races off ...
March 18-24th forty-eight members of NUST traveled down to Tampa, FL for a week of sailing and sunshine. The Davis Island Yacht provided 12 boats, so groups of 24 rotated between morning and afternoon shifts. Each group sailed about 3 hours, working on boat handling, speed, and team racing drills. ...
Members of the Northwestern Sailing Team just got back from sunny California where they took 6th place out of 10 boats at the McIntyre Team race hosted by Stanford University. Michael Cornew, Alex Lubben, Geoff Pedrick, Travis Cottle, Noah Aldonas, Kim Wieczner and Katherine Nickele represented NUST in California and ...
Our names are Katie Cannady and Martha Koch and we are the Recruitment Chairs for 2012. Membership to the Northwestern University Sailing Team is decided after tryouts held at the beginning of fall quarter. For more information about the team, please be sure to find us at Wildcat Days on Monday, ...
NUST had a particularly busy season this fall, with three large regattas at our home boathouse on South Beach, and many in between. Here are a few of the highlights! On October 22nd, the morning after our largest Alumni Dinner in recent history, Geoff Pedrick, Michael Cornew, and Megan McEvily sailed in ...