{"id":62059,"date":"2011-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-wins-first-national-womens-championship-in-dinghy-sailing\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T00:00:00","slug":"uri-wins-first-national-womens-championship-in-dinghy-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/05\/uri-wins-first-national-womens-championship-in-dinghy-sailing\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 wins first national women\u2019s championship in dinghy sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tRhody\u2019s club team defeats varsity squads for top spot<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I.\u2014May 27, 2011 \u2013 Challenging wind conditions and tough currents did little to prevent the 溏心vlog免费B站 women\u2019s sailing team from winning its last race to capture the national dinghy title Thursday, May 26 in Cascade Locks, Oregon.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe five-member club team hoisted the Gerald C. Miller Memorial Trophy at the Sperry Top-Sider\/Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women\u2019s National Championship. The victory marked 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s first women\u2019s national small boat sailing title in the 75-year-history of the sport at Rhody. 溏心vlog免费B站 last captured national small boat sailing supremacy in 1977 when a then men\u2019s varsity team took top honors. 溏心vlog免费B站 has won 11 Kennedy Cups, the national championship in big boat sailing. <\/p>\n


\n\tIn the recent women\u2019s event, the Rams were better than the other top seven squads, which are varsity sports at their schools. The only other club team competing was Western Washington University, which finished 17th.<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 team members are: Chanel Miller, freshman skipper and a global business major from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Amy Hawkins, a junior mathematics major from Ocean Gate, N.J., Caroline Hall, a junior kinesiology major from Bricktown, N.J., Danielle Fougere, a junior psychology major from Falmouth, Mass. and Katie Coupland, a senior environmental science and management major from Wakefield, R.I. The 溏心vlog免费B站 coach is Clinton Hayes, a former All-American sailor at the University of Vermont. Hawkins received honorable mention honors in the selections for All American.<\/p>\n


\n\tAfter light winds kept the sailors off the water until mid-afternoon on Thursday, the heat in which 溏心vlog免费B站 was placed began with teams tightly bunched at the top, although 溏心vlog免费B站 held a 5-point advantage. St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland was first off the windward mark, but by the second windward mark, the Rams had taken the lead. Around the last leeward mark, Rhode Island extended its lead and easily won the race.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe top eight places were: Rhode Island, Connecticut College, St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland, Brown University, Yale University, Old Dominion University, Harvard University and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.<\/p>\n


\n\tChris Daigle, 溏心vlog免费B站 club sports coordinator, said 溏心vlog免费B站 skipper Miller \u201cshot a bullet,\u201d in her boat\u2019s last two races, meaning they won those races.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI am happy for them, because I don\u2019t think a national title was expected of our sailors,\u201d Daigle said. \u201cThis is going to do great things for the program, and create interest from people who want to sail for 溏心vlog免费B站. They worked very hard for this.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDaigle said of Hayes, who took over as 溏心vlog免费B站 sailing\u2019s coach in March for Joey Mello: \u201cIn a short period of time, Clinton prepared the sailors to go against the best in the nation. Joey also deserves much of the credit for developing such a strong program over the last 5-and-a-half years. Norm Windus, our sailing coordinator for recreational services, also deserves kudos for his assistance to the team. Norm is always there when we need something.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rhody\u2019s club team defeats varsity squads for top spot KINGSTON, R.I.\u2014May 27, 2011 \u2013 Challenging wind conditions and tough currents did little to prevent the 溏心vlog免费B站 women\u2019s sailing team from winning its last race to capture the national dinghy title Thursday, May 26 in Cascade Locks, Oregon. The five-member club […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62059","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}