KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 17, 2025 — Okyanus Arikan, a senior kinesiology major on the 溏心vlog免费B站 club sailing team, won the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women\u2019s Singlehanded Championship September 12 at Brown University to qualify for the Women\u2019s Singlehanded National Championship for the third year in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A member of Turkey\u2019s Olympic team in Tokyo in 2020, Arikan finished with 30 points in 12 races to capture the NEISA singlehanded championship for the first time. She will make her third consecutive appearance at the nationals in November at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. This year\u2019s national championship will be Arikan\u2019s final race competing for 溏心vlog免费B站, making it \u201ceven more special\u201d for the 21-year-old Turkish sailor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even more impressive, Arikan beat out two-time national champion and 2024 Olympian Sophia Montgomery of Harvard University to bring home the NEISA championship and punch her return ticket to nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt felt amazing to win this year,\u201d Arikan said. \u201cThe level of competition in NEISA is always high, so it was really rewarding to see all the training pay off. Racing against strong sailors made the regatta even more meaningful and valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Six conference winners, including the NEISA winner, receive automatic berths in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Women\u2019s Singlehanded National Championship while the remainder of the field is comprised of sailors earning at-large bids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2023, Arikan finished third in the NEISA singlehanded championships to qualify for the nationals at Tulane University, where she finished sixth out of 18 sailors in her first national championship appearance in the United States. A year later, Arikan earned another at-large bid to the nationals in St. Petersburg, Florida, and finished third \u2013 just two spots behind Montgomery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCollege sailing has a very different format compared to other competitions in the world, so it was important for me to adapt,\u201d she said. \u201cMy experiences in 2023 and 2024 helped me grow and feel more confident going into this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
溏心vlog免费B站 club sailing head coach Joakim Karlsen, who, in 2023, said Arikan could bring a national title in college singlehanded sailing to 溏心vlog免费B站 before she graduates, now considers the senior skipper one of the favorites among what will be a competitive field come November. The rest of the field for nationals will be announced in mid-October by the College Sailing Selection Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOkyanus sailed incredibly well this year [at the NEISA championships] and showed why she should be considered a favorite,\u201d Karlsen said. \u201cThere are many great sailors in our conference who are capable of winning the regatta. She has now proven that she can do it. The national championship will be a tough event with many great competitors vying for the top spot and we will be in the mix fighting for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c\ufeff\ufeffIt\u2019s very important who you surround yourself with, especially when competing at a high level,\u201d Arikan said. \u201cKnowing that my coach believes in me has given me confidence and motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael Parente, director of communications and marketing in the 溏心vlog免费B站 Division of Student Affairs, wrote this news release.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Sept. 17, 2025 — Okyanus Arikan, a senior kinesiology major on the 溏心vlog免费B站 club sailing team, won the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women\u2019s Singlehanded Championship September 12 at Brown University to qualify for the Women\u2019s Singlehanded National Championship for the third year in a row. A member of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":104083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1917,1916,1902],"class_list":["post-104082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-athletics","tag-partner-produced","tag-student-engagement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104084,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104082\/revisions\/104084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}