Cappy Capper US Sailor of the week

Cappy is recognized as this weeks US Sailing Sailor of the Week. Check it out!

http://media.ussailing.org/US_SAILING_Media_Home/Sailor_of_the_Week.htm

Gopher Invite Success

Congratulations Gophers for putting on a great event this past weekend at WCSC! Here is the updated report and final scores from Vice Commodore Allison Prange.

We were pleased to see a lot of sun and warm weather for the weekend, though these great conditions brought little wind. Saturday started with glassy water so sailors were postponed on shore until the race committee saw a steady breeze of 3.5 knots or higher. A division eventually got in a total of 3 races with B's getting two in on Saturday. Sunday began with promising breeze which eventually began throwing 45 degree shifts for the race committee to compensate for. Despite the difficult wind conditions, each division completed 6 races with a total of 12 races being sailed for the regatta.

We would like to thank all of our volunteers- Carl Locker, Robbie Virnil, Andrea Porter, Mark Dunsworth, Mike Schmidt, Mark Swift, Megan Zweber, Tricia Towey, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and all of the Gopher sailors.

Congratulations to Minnesota Gold, a team of Nick Hovland, Kate Hockin, Matt Thompson and Tom Cramer, for winning the event!

We are sad to see our seniors go!

Final RESULTS

1A 2A 1B 2B 3A 4A 3B 4B 5A 6A 5B 6B Total
Minnesota Gold 3 1 4 3 1 1 5 7 2 2 1 2 32
Minnesota Maroon 2 6 7 5 2 2 1 8 6 4 3 1 47
St. Thomas 5 4 2 1 3 4 3 10 1 1 7 11 52
Minnesota Women 1 3 8 7 5 8 2 6 3 5 2 3 53
Northwestern 7 2 1 2 7 3 6 1 9 9 6 5 58
Chicago 4 8 3 6 6 7 4 9 7 8 5 4 71
Northwestern 4 6 9 6 4 4 6 7 3 5 10 4 10 74
Marquette 9 7 10 10 9 11 9 4 4 7 8 7 95
Northwestern 2 10 5 5 9 8 9 12 11 11 3 10 6 99
Northwestern 3 11 11 9 12 10 5 10 12 8 6 11 9 114
Indiana 12 12 11 8 12 12 8 2 12 12 9 8 118
Carleton 8 10 12 11 11 10 11 5 10 11 12 12 123

Cappy Capper Winner of ICSA Graham Hall Award

Sailors,

I am very pleased to announce today that our coach Cappy Capper has been selected by the ICSA committee as the winner of the 2009-2010 ICSA Graham Hall Award for outstanding service as a sailing professional.

This award recognizes organizers, administrators, advisors or coaches who have served the best interests of college sailing at the club/team, conference or national level. Cappy will be added to the elite list of names found on the permanent ICSA Hall of Fame display located in the Robert Crown Sailing Center at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, Md.).

I would like to thank Cappy for all of his hard work and years of dedication supporting youth sailing. We are honored to have Cappy Capper as our director and coach at the University of Minnesota.

ICSA president Mitch Brindley said it best, “Your support and enthusiasm for college sailing at the Universities of Minnesota and St. Thomas, in the MCSA, and all of the ICSA has truly been outstanding. I thank you for your tireless efforts for the sport of
college sailing of the past, present, and future.”

Cappy will be recognized and inducted into the ICSA Hall of Fame at the ICSA Awards Banquet on June 3, 2010 at in Madison, WI.


Jess Haverstock
jhaverstock@gmail.com
P:612.817.4837

Team Race Qualifiers @ Wisco

This weekend 7 of us headed to UW Madison to compete at Team Race Qualifiers. Saturday was a windy day, with an average of about 20-25 mph wind. The weather went from sunny to hailing more times than once and the temperatures were crazy cold. Despite all these factors the race committee got two full rotations in. The team performed very well (but definitely could have benefitted from some more alternates to save energy). Considering Brady, Matt and I have never practiced team racing together we were able to pull very strong moves and hold our own. Our shining moment was our unexpected win over Wisconsin in the first set- it was looking pretty rough at the first mark as we were holding a 2-3-6. KK and I were in the back getting battled by Wisco's two trailing boats, and despite our turtle from a squall and a quick team racing move, the boys were able to pull a 1-2, so all we had to do was right our boat and finish. With some effort and a lot of cheering we got the boat up and beat Wisconsin!

That little highlight was just one of the MANY awesome things that the team was able to put together this weekend. At the end of the first day we were tied with Northwestern for 2nd (the final qualifying spot for Nationals). Unfortunately, there was no wind on Sunday- virtually opposite conditions from Saturday- not allowing a sail off between the two of us moving to the next tie breaker (whichever team beat the other more times) which went to Northwestern.

Though we didn't qualify, we were very proud of our performance and look forward to improving for next year! Job well done to Matt, Braden, Allison, Natalie, Kate, KK and Emma- may your muscles recover quickly.

Happy Sailing

Allison Prange
Vice Commodore
Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association
E: pran0024@umn.edu
P: 262.323.1718

More coverage can be found on Sailgroove!
http://www.sailgroove.org/videos/coverage/view/237054-msca-team-race-qualifiers