ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Connecticut College coed sailing team finished with 125 points and in ninth place in the Eastern Semifinals to punch their ticket to the ICSA Coed Finals.

The Camels started slowly, fishing in 10th and 14th in the first race for each boat, but responded with a third and sixth to score 33rd points through two rounds of racing. The A division boat of Henry Scholz (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Vivian Smith (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.) were able to get two more races in on day one, before weather scuppered the rest of the day, as Conn sat on 63 points.

Day two started with a bang for the B division boat of William Hurd (West Dennis, Mass.) and Charlotte McDonald (Portland, Maine) who opened with a second place in their first race of the day. Weather again delayed racing until the mid-afternoon, where Conn did enough to hold off a late charge from Northeastern to finish in ninth on 125 points to claim a spot in the finals.

The coed team is back in the finals for the first time since 2022, with racing beginning tomorrow morning with the top-nine teams the two semifinals.