Harvard Sailing ended the first day of finals at the 2026 ICSA Open Fleet Racing National Championship in 11th place, according to a May 21 statement. The event took place in St. Petersburg, Florida, where teams competed for positions on a shifting leaderboard.
The results matter as they determine which teams advance and how they are ranked going into the final day of competition. Harvard’s team reached as high as third during the day’s races but concluded Thursday with a score of 144 points. Brown University led with a score of 100, followed by Stanford (102), Navy (120), Penn (123), and Georgetown (127). Georgetown held fifth position due to tiebreakers with Tulane and Yale. Roger Williams (129), Dartmouth (132), and College of Charleston (139) were also ahead of Harvard.
Justin Callahan and Jacob Posner represented Harvard in the A-Division races, while Mitchell Callahan and Rosella Irfan sailed in the B-Division. The A-Division pair started strong with fourth- and fifth-place finishes but faced challenges mid-day before ending with another fourth-place result for a total score of 70 points.
In B-Division action, M. Callahan and Irfan had five single-digit finishes out of eight races, including winning Race 3. However, they placed twelfth once, thirteenth once, and were disqualified from Race 8 for a Day-1 total score of 74 points.
The championship round concludes Friday at SkyBeach Resort starting at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
