What's Next, TeamUSA?

November 6, 2010

TeamUSA, made up of Keelhaulers from Cal Maritime Academy, finished the Student Yachting World Cup in France in fifth place out of 14 schools. (England's Southampton Solent University won the Cup.) So what's next for the hard-sailing, hard-studying collegians? Well, they're not going to Disneyland just yet.

"Lots upcoming for our sailors," said Doug Webster, who's been promoting and reporting on the team's racing. "Some members of the TeamUSA squad plus up-and-coming members of our sailing team head for Annapolis this weekend (no rest for the weary) for the 2010 Kennedy Cup National Offshore Championships. A victory here last year qualified us for the SYWC for the first time this year, and another win now would potentially send us back to France in 2011 again (although likely to another venue there since the French committee rotates locations each year). I KNOW our Advancement office would love to be presented with another fund-raising challenge, although this time we'd start the effort earlier. I think and have a good base to build on.

"TeamUSA tactician Sean Kelly heads for the National Collegiate Singlehanded Championships in Tampa/St. Pete later in the month, having taken a second in the Pacific Coast Singlehandeds recently. And we also send a team to Annapolis for the national Match Racing Championships."

For more, including videos from the Student Yachting World Cup, see http://followteamusa.csum.edu.

Cal Maritime Academy is a small campus of California State University located on the Carquinez Strait in Vallejo.