About the Sailingcanes

Fall 2010

We had an outstandingly succesful season last year and managed to hang in the top 20 ICSA Nationals rankings for the entire year, at one point almost breaking the top 10. The start of the next college sailing season is just around the corner and we are looking to step it up one more level this year. The extra attention due to the ranks appears to have helped in the recruiting department and we are looking forward to sailing with some great new Freshman. The practice and regatta schedule for the Fall has just been posted to the site. If your a new student come check out the team at "Canefest" and or stop by CGSC for the new student BBQ the 1st saturday of classes.

We also have some cool new "U" sailing team bumper stickers and drink coozies for sale to help raise travel funds.

Other excited developments are that the ICSA approved 2 of our proposals at the National General Meeting held in Wisconsin.

The first item is that ICSA voted to adopt our proposed ban on disposible water bottles at all events. In SAISA we have been doing this very succesfully for the last several years and now we are exporting our "Green" ethics to the rest of the ICSA. ICSA has asked that we help them develop some educational material to distribute to the teams so that they better understand just how bad these water bottles are to the environment, to your health, and to your budget. Anyone who wants to help with this project contact Kay.

The second realy big item is that ICSA accepted our preliminary bid to host the 2012 National Semi-finals right here in Miami!!!! We hope to do this in conjunction with the Volvo Stop over. Needless to say this is going to take some major fund raising as it requires 36 boats. So put those brain cells to work for some creative ideas.

Spring 2010

Jan 6- UM Sailing Places 5th in the 2010 Rose Bowl. The UM sailing team celebrated the new year with a successful performance at the Rose Bowl in Long Beach, California. Despite light and difficult winds, the team was up to the west coast challenge. Nick Voss (2012) and Brogan Abernathy (2013) finished fourth in their division sailing a second in the last race to lock in the team's fifth place position. David Hernandez (2012) and Nicole Popp (2012) finished 8th in their division winning the fourth race of the regatta. This is the best finish at the Rose Bowl in UM Sailing history! More information can be found at http://www.uscsailing.org/Rosebowl/Results.htm
Go Canes!

Fall 2009

--------November 19- Canes finish the fall season ranked 13th in the lastest ICSA coaches poll after stong finishes at the ACC's @ Harvard (11th) , SAISA Districts@Eckerd (2nd), and the Navy Fall intersectional (12th). Gotta love the volunteer coaches pool here in Miami! For the rest of the semester the team plans to work on team racing skills practicing with graduates of last years college Team Racing Champions from Boston College (Brain Kamilar, Adam Roberts, and Nick Martin). Over the winter break the team will be heading out to the Rose Bowl regatta Jan 1-2 for some post season action . The team wishes everyone a happy Thanksgiving and sends a special shout of thanks for support this fall from SAFAC, the local Miami sailing community, UM afterguard donors, and parents. We could not sail this well without you. click to Support the canes and get on-board with the UM afterguard Sail smooth and Go Canes!

---------October 11 th- Miami hosts and wins SP#5 co-ed double handed at home. Winning team David Hernandez, Nick Voss, Chelsea Carlson, Brogan Abernathy, and Nicole Popp. With also being parents weekend it was great to have the whole team and their parents helping out and spectating from the float. A BBQ was held after racing on saturday before everyone split to the home Football game.

---------October 4th- Miami hosts succesfull Men's single handed qualifier. Winning team:Juan Maegli Charleston. Sailing for Miami were David Hernandez, Nick Voss, Ben Jassin, and Alex Weiksnar. Special thank you goes to PRO Dr. Ken Voss and his support team of Fred Moffat,Penny Arhonson, and Beth and Jose Hernandez. A Sportsmanship award goes to Alex Weiksnart of UMiami for ìtaking one for the teams and sailing races 6-11 with a very short 420 tiller extension to avoid other teams having to take a bye after boat#3 tiller failed.We also thank the Miami US Sailing Center for allowing us to host from their facilities, and to Ransom High School for use of their float and a mark boat.

-------September 20, 2009- Canes co-ed team wins A division at University South Florida and combined overall of 3rd out of 12 teams. The women's team also competed at this event and placed 5th overall. Next week the ladies head to Gtech for the women's championship and ACC and single handed qualifier.

Sailing Canes featured in the sunday section of the Miami Hearld

Canes recieve invited to Naval Academy Fall intersection a 4 division event October 17&18

Sailing fast Canes Team member Nick Voss placed 8th at the Snipe World Championship in San Diego last week after finishing 4th at the Junior worlds. check out his interview on Sail groove

------September 13, 2009. Canes win A division as season open at College of Charelston and place combined overall 3rd in South points out of 19 teams.

------August 31 2009. Sailing Canes list in the top 25 in the National preseason ICSA ranking poll for the first time in our history. http://www.sailingworld.com/ranks.

We are very pleased to report that at least 8 new freshman attending the new student BBQ have significant experience and success racing in 420's and lasers, we are indeed looking forward to a very strong season and a busy travel year-- first big travel event is to get the lady Canes to the Fall Women's SAISA dinghy champs and the womens' single handed nationanls qualifier at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. Support the Canes, particularly our women's team this week, by making a donation ! Click here to down load our fund raising information today to help us become the Next National Championship Team at the "U".

We have a great set of dedicated all volunteer coaches that have gotten us to this moment but we really need your help with the travel funds so that we can begin to send out mutiple teams on the same weekend and attend more intersectional events. Thanks and Go Canes!

-------August 28 2009 ...........NEW STUDENT BBQ/Open House - With the first week of classes out of the way it's time for the new student recruitment BBQ and open house this Saturday August 29th 1pm-4pm at the Coconut grove sailing club. At this BBQ we can give more details about what the team is really about, you can check out the sailing center, meet our coaches and other important people involved in the program, and other team members. We will also break everyone up into smaller groups so we can find out more about your sailing experience and what you really are looking for in joining the team, and weather permitting you can test drive the FJ's. If you feel comfortable paying dues already, you can bring 50 dollars in cash or make a check out to University of Miami. We are going to meet at 12 40pm at Stanford Circle on campus to arrange rides, so please RSVP sailingcanes@gmail.com so we can know how much food to get and how many people we need to figure out rides for!

-------August 13th 2009- We finished the spring semester with a strong showing at the National semi-finals in Boston, check out the team's interview on Sailgroove.

The start of the Fall season is less than two weeks away and we have a busy regatta schedule for the Fall which will wrap-up with our trip to the Rose Bowl regatta @ USC in Long Beach, CA over New Years. Our roster is looking strong with several new experienced freshman skippers and crews pretty much the full team from last year. If you're new to the team or interested in joining please send your contact info to our recuirment chair Nicole Popp (n.popp@umiami.edu ) so we can get you on our list server.

Out first meeting will be on the UTC patio is tentatively scheduled for Monday the 24th at 9pm.

The annual new student recruitment open house will be saturday afternoon at the Coconut Grove Sailing Club on the 29th 1-4pm.

First practice and boat setup will be on thrusday the 27th we need as many of you as possible to come down and help unpack and setup the boats.

see ya soon Go Canes!

Spring 2009

4/6/2009- Congrats! UM qualifies for the 2009 ICSA National Tournament. Spring 2009

April 30th, 2009: University of Miami Sailing Team seen as Dark Horse at the College National Championship Semi-finals to be held next weekedn May 2&3 in Boston.

Follow live video action of the semi-finals racing starting at 9am May 2nd and check out event previews on the internet at SailGroove:

http://www.sailgroove.org/videos/coverage/view_video/234920/174948-college-sailing-national-semifinals-preview

Live results will be posted: http://www.collegesailing.org/neisa/semis09/default.asp

Support the Canes post action play by making a donation. Click here to down load our fund raising information.today to help them become the Next National Championship Team at the "U".
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Press Release:
Norfolk, Virginia (April 28, 2009) – A year after its successful introduction of a semifinal round and “brackets” to the spring-time competition for the ICSA/Gill Coed National Championship, ICSA (Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association) has announced the pairings for this year’s Western and Eastern Semifinals and has scheduled the two events to run concurrently from the Fan Pier in Boston, Mass., as part of the festivities surrounding the only North American stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race. From May 2-3, 2009, 36 college sailing teams -- which have been seeded into the Western or Eastern Semifinals based on their conference ranking – will race in FJs on Boston’s Inner Harbor.

There are 200 ICSA-member sailing teams in North America and to gain entry into this select group the 36 teams had to perform well enough in their conference (there are seven) to earn their spot in one of the two semifinal events: the ICSA National Championship Eastern Semifinals which are being hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.), and the ICSA National Championship Western Semifinals hosted by Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.). Sponsored by Marlow Ropes, PUMA and US SAILING, the short-course events will run simultaneously, with the top nine finishing schools from each event advancing to the grand finale of the year – the ICSA/Gill Coed National Championship which will be hosted in San Francisco, Calif., by Stanford University (Palo Alto) and the St. Francis Yacht Club (San Francisco) from June 1-3, 2009.

The semifinal round created a new level of excitement among the competitors, it has insured that a few dark horses will get a better shot at the ultimate title. *Among the familiar top-ranked schools there are several newer faces competing at this level, including** the University of Miami (Coral Gables, Fla.). * *The University of Miami, fourth ranked in the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association, will compete in the Eastern Semifinals.*
National Championship Semi-finals will be held May 1-2 At the Volvo Race Village on the Boston water front. Top 9 of 18 teams in each semi-finals division advance to the finals National Championship Finals will be held at City Front in San Francisco first week of June.

April 26th: UM finished 5th out of 13 teams at the George E Morris intersectional in Boston this past weekend check out pur results page for more info.

Find out how you can support the Sailing Canes by making a donation to help us get to the post season action in Boston and to further our long range goal of becoming the next National Championship team at the "U". Click here to down load our fund raising information.

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4/6/2009- UM ties for second in the SAISA South Points ranking and qualifies for the District Championship.

3/28/2009- UM hosts and wins SP#4 , Taking second in A fleet and First in B for a combined overall win. Go Canes!!! The team will now be practicing in 420's for the rest of the season to prepare for the Districts@Charleston in a few weeks and the National semi-finals in May in Boston.

Photo's of our regatta have been posted in the photo gallery and a slide show. Thanks to Rachael Steinhauser for the great photography during the regatta!

3/17/2009- UM places 5th at SP#3 during spring break giving the team a solid 3rd place standing in the south point series to date.

3/2/23/2009- UM Wins SP#2 at USF

2/15/2009 -UM places 5th at the SAISA opener and 3rd in SP#1 at Charleston

11/21/2-008 UM SAFAC approves funding for 10 sets of new CFJ sails which should be ready for spring semester.

11/16/2008 UM finishes 5th out of 20 teams at the Atlantic Coast Tournament held at Harvard on Boston on the Charles River! under wet and windy conditions.

11/8/2008

UM big boat team finishes 5th at the SAISA Sloop Championship

11/6/2008-for immediate release

Strong performance at the SAISA Dinghy Championship qualfied the Canes for fall post season action @ Atlantic Coast Tournament to be held at Harvard on the Charles River November 15&16. The strong showing aslo qualified the Canes for 2 intersectionals and 2 out of district events for the 2009 spring season.

The UM big boat team heads to USF next weekend for the SAISA Sloop Nationals qualifier. The team has been practicing hard with Bill Johns on his Lightning, and thanks to Shake-a-leg on a Sonar the same boat which will be used for the qualifier. Go Canes!

10/15/2008

The UM Women's sailing team made their first ever debut last weekend at SP#5 at Eckerd finishing 10th out of 15 co-ed teams. Way to go ladies!!!!