{"id":82626,"date":"2023-01-20T14:42:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T14:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=82626"},"modified":"2023-01-26T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:08:42","slug":"sailing-team-wins-mcmillan-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/01\/sailing-team-wins-mcmillan-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Sailing team wins McMillan Cup, poised for strong spring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Jan. 25, 2023-\u2013 How\u2019s this for a start to a 溏心vlog免费B站 head coaching stint? You take over at the beginning of the fall semester, and then in October, your team wins the McMillan Cup, awarded to the first-place finisher at the oldest collegiate sailing regatta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only that. Your team wins the cup for the first time in 52 years over powerhouses like the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (second) and the U.S. Naval Academy (third).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was at the Naval Academy for a little more than two years as an assistant coach,\u201d said new Rhody sailing head coach Matthew Peter. \u201cThere was nothing wrong with that job, but I am from Cape Cod and wanted to get back to family and friends. The McMillan Cup victory was a testament to the people who get the history and culture of our program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the McMillen Cup, Rhody was credited with sailing a smart and consistent regatta, starting each race cleanly to post scores of 2, 1, 1 and 2. In sailing, a lower score is better, so a first-place finish earns a crew one point and a second-place finish two points. So, Rhody\u2019s first-place total of six points, bested the Merchant Marine Academy\u2019s eight points and Navy\u2019s 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ISGmL7880c4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"溏心vlog免费B站 Sailing Fall 2022 CC\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ISGmL7880c4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Team co-captain Tyler Miller, a senior mechanical engineering major from <strong>Newport,<\/strong> said that winning the McMillan Cup was a remarkable feat since the team added three new sailors in the fall season. \u201cAlso, we don\u2019t have a boat the size of the boats used at the regatta, so we had one day of practice to get used to a Naval Academy boat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Sailing-group2061.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82718\" width=\"565\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Sailing-group2061.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Sailing-group2061-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Sailing-group2061-364x273.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2023\/01\/Sailing-group2061-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><figcaption>溏心vlog免费B站 sailing team members with McMillan Cup championship silverware in front row from left: Tyler Miller; assistant coach Jesse Fielding, and Rowan Woods; second row from left, Anthony Purcell, AJ Kozaritz, Alden Coldreck, Miles Bailey, Jonathan Riley, Ava Wilson, and Thomas Johnson. Photo courtesy 溏心vlog免费B站 sailing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But Miller said the team was fortunate because members did plenty of sailing together during summers in similar size boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe all know our jobs, but we had to pull together to win in October,\u201d said Miller, who was an integral part of the offshore team that came in second in 2021\u2019s Kennedy Cup, college sailing\u2019s national championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow co-captain Eliza Taylor, a senior ocean engineering major from <strong>Newport<\/strong>, said the fall season starts Sept. 1 and ends Nov. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring that time, we practice four days a week and compete on Saturdays and Sundays in regattas around New England,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom November until the end of February, the team participates in indoor training doing cardio workouts, weight training and other high-intensity exercise,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cIn fact, 溏心vlog免费B站 Campus Rec has great fitness programs in which we participate, such as stationary cycling and F45 Training (which combines high-intensity interval training, circuit training and functional training).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there\u2019s the rub, Peter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are no NCAA-sanctioned sailing competitions, and the national and international sailing associations do not distinguish between varsity and club teams,\u201d Peter said. \u201cBut the only difference between our team (which is a club team at 溏心vlog免费B站) and varsity teams is the pot of money available to the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut my expectation is that if you are on the sailing team at 溏心vlog免费B站, you are a student-athlete, no different than a member of the varsity teams at 溏心vlog免费B站,\u201d he added. \u201cSo our players need to be physically and mentally ready to compete against some of the top programs in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the ways he prepares his team seems a bit unorthodox for the coach of a water sport; he has his team read the book \u201cThe Inner Game of Tennis.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about so much more than tennis because it has lessons on mental and emotional discipline that can assist my athletes and many others who want to be better at sports, work, etc.,\u201d Peter said. \u201cThe book became popular in the 1970s and uses professional tennis as a lens through which athletes can improve the mental side of the game. It talks about the \u2018flow state,\u2019 the conscious thought that is applicable to all aspects of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSailing is a mind game and physical competition,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cThe environment is constantly changing so you can never be entirely perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a lot of fun when it\u2019s really windy,\u201d said fellow co-captain Miller. \u201cAlso, you get impatient to compete. It\u2019s what keeps me coming back outside, to win races. You have to analyze the weather and the currents to be successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are about 50 student-athletes on the team who compete in both fall and spring seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the fall, our team showed consistent growth with improving regatta results each weekend,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cMatt\u2019s coaching and guidance contributed to this positive trajectory. He\u2019s been a great addition to the team. We are looking forward to the spring and hope to carry this momentum with us throughout the team racing season.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Peter\u2019s time as an assistant coach at Annapolis, Navy won the Coed Fleet and Team Race nationals. As an elite level coach, he also runs One United Sailing, a performance training and coaching program that develops medal winning sailors in the Club 420 fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Miller, other members of the winning McMillan Cup team were: senior Jonathan Riley of <strong>Marion, Massachusetts;<\/strong> Thomas Johnson of <strong>Annapolis, Maryland;<\/strong> AJ Kozaritz of <strong>Vermillion, Ohio; <\/strong>Miles Bailey of <strong>Middletown; <\/strong>Anthony Purcell of <strong>East Greenwich; <\/strong>Rowan Woods of <strong>Sutton, Massachusetts<\/strong>, Alden Coldreck of <strong>Kennebunkport, Maine<\/strong> and Ava Wilson of<strong> Chicago<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Jan. 23, 2023-\u2013 New head coach takes over program that has won national championships, produced Olympians and All Americans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":82715,"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-82626","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\/82626","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=82626"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82815,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82626\/revisions\/82815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}