The Chuck Nevel Regatta

The annual "Chuck" was held this past weekend, a regatta for the sailors of the Loyola Academy Novice Team. The regatta was hosted by the Loyola Academy Varsity and Junior Varsity teams at the Sheridan Shore Yacht Club. 

It was a beautiful Sunday with warm temperatures and a perfect Easterly breeze of 8 knots. Eight boats and nineteen sailors completed six races to make for an excellent regatta. The boats of Matt Zampa and Devin Schmitz as well as James Kohn and Emma Thomson were in the hunt all day as they each one a race and were quite consistant. Slightly ahead of these boats, however were the boats of Colleen Kollar/Kaite Williamson and Conner Croft/Allison LeTourneau. The two battled it out all day, ending in a tie. The tie breaker had Croft taking first place, as he won the most races of the two. Congratulations all. 

1st: Croft/LeTourneau

2nd: Kollar/Williamson

3rd: Zampa/Schmitz

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1. Croft/Letourneau      1          1       4        1         5       3     15

2. Kollar/Williamson   3          2       1       3         2       4     15 

3. Zampa/Schmitz        2          4       3       5         3       1      18

4. Kohn/Thomson       4           3       2       4         4       2      19

5. Dixon/Manuel         7           6       7        2         1       7       32

6. Goschi/Calk            5            5       5        6         5       6       32

7.  Kyle/Shea               8           7       6         7        7        6       41

8. Leigho/Marikate   6           6      dns     dns    dns     dns   48

Atlantic Coast Challange

On the weekend of May 22-24, Loyola Sailing headed out to the national event for which they qualified in beautiful Rochester, New York. This event was the Atlantic Coast Challenge, a team race regatta consisting of many of the best teams in the midwest and Atlantic Coast Districts. The team consisted of drivers John Kinzel, Kevin Kennedy and Tommy Holmberg and crews Melinda Lee, Ciara McHugh, Juliann Sargis, Thomas Cook, and Chris Lynch (who drove one race. Said Chris Lynch, "This is the best day of my life!"). The breeze was very light, but the team overcame and sailed very well and very consistently as they went undefeated in their first six races and then losing three. This effort was enough to move them up into the gold round robin of the event (the sweet spot, if you will). Defeating only one team of the four they faced was enough to put Loyola Sailing in fourth place for the event. This was the final high school event for seniors Juliann Sargis, Ciara McHugh, Kevin Kennedy, and Tommy Holmberg.