Fall 2024 Season Preview

The fall semester is rapidly approaching and NC State Sailing is gearing up for an exciting and competitive fall season. 

Beginning in late August, Wolfpack sailors begin practice and will welcome new team members following tryouts on August 30th. Regular on-the-water practices on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays begin with the full roster shortly thereafter. This fall season, NC State welcomes several talented recruits to the roster and program leadership expects the incoming freshman class to make an impact early. The preseason is however short as the Wolfpack quickly hits the road for the SAISA Top 9 Invite Regatta held at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida on September 7-8th, while another squad of Wolfpack sailors will compete in the SAISA North Fall Tournament Regatta hosted by The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina that same weekend. The Top 9 event will feature the top teams in the conference and offer an early look at where NC State lines up against traditional rivals and the best programs in the conference. (NC State finished the Fall 2023 Top 9 event in 5th overall, but improved over the remainder of the fall season finishing second at the fall SAISA Conference Championship Regatta.) 

On the following weekend, the Wolfpack will send several sailors to SAISA Conference Singlehanded Championships, as qualifier for the ICSA National Singlehanded Championships held in November. Regular season, in-conference regattas also continue as NC State will send two squads back to Charleston for the SAISA North Top 6 Regatta hosted by the College of Charleston and the Ashley River Trophy hosted by The Citadel. NC State will also compete in an early season, high profile women's event at the SAISA Women's Top 9 Invitational Regatta hosted by Jacksonville University. Interconference competition begins on September 28th as the Wolfpack once again returns to Charleston for the Charleston Fall Coed Interconference Regatta where NC State will compete against teams like Old Dominion, Fordham, Princeton, Mass Maritime, and SAISA stalwarts the College of Charleston, USF, Miami and others. 

On the last weekend in September, the Wolfpack will travel to Providence, Rhode Island to compete in round 1 of the ICSA's Women's Atlantic Coast Championships hosted by Brown University. This event will feature 18 of the best women's teams in the nation. NC State's women's team finished the 2024 spring season in 16th nationally. As October begins, the Wolfpack will return to South Carolina for the Charleston Fall Women's Interconference Regatta, defending their regatta victory in last year's edition. The Wolfpack will also head north to Charlottesville, Virginia to compete in the 2024 Jefferson Cup Trophy Regatta hosted by the University of Virginia, an event the Wolfpack have won twice prior. While one NC State squad is competing in Virginia, the coed team will be competing in round 1 of the ICSA's Coed Atlantic Coast Championships hosted by the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. NC State's offshore/keelboat squad will also be traveling in early October to Larchmont, New York, to compete in the Storm Trysail Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta, a storied event featuring the nation's top collegiate keelboat teams.  

As interconference competition continues into October, the Wolfpack women will compete in either the finals or tournament for the ICSA's Women's Atlantic Coast Championships depending on how the finish in round 1. The coed squad will be competing at the Nevin's Trophy Regatta at the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York on October 12-13th, returning to where they competed in the 2023 College Sailing National Championship Regatta. In another high-profile and competitive event, the coed squad will travel to either Boston or Providence to compete in the finals or tournament of the coed Atlantic Coast Championships hosted by Boston College or Brown University. As the fall season winds down, the Wolfpack will once again compete for the fall conference title at the SAISA Women's and Coed Conference Championships hosted in Charleston on October 25-27. In 2023, the Wolfpack finished 2nd out of 18 in coed competition, and 4th out of 11 in women's fall conference champs. 

To finish out the fall season, the Wolfpack hosts it's only home regatta of the fall season, the 8th Annual Triangle Tango Intercollegiate Regatta presented by the Greater Raleigh Sports Alliance on November 9-10. This event will welcome the University of Miami, University of South Carolina, Florida State, University of South Florida, Clemson, The Citadel, Florida Tech, UNC-Wilmington, Embry Riddle, and the University of Virginia to Lake Crabtree. The Wolfpack won the home event in 2023 by 13 points over The Citadel. 

The full fall schedule is online: https://www.sailpack.org/fall_2024. Follow live scoring for these events all fall season on: https://scores.collegesailing.org/.

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