2004-2005 Season News

TAMUG wins all District Championships!	04.30.05
The SEISA district championships for Team Racing, Women, and Coed dinghies were held on 04/09, 04/23, and 04/30. TAMUG competed well in each event and won all three! Congratulations to the team and good luck at Nationals! The national championships will be held June 1st through the 10th at Austin Yacht Club on Lake Travis. The results can be found here: Team Racing, Women and Coed. Also pictures were taken at all of the events, which can be found on the pictures page: District Championships at UT.

TAMUG wins all District Championships!

04.30.05

The SEISA district championships for Team Racing, Women, and Coed dinghies were held on 04/09, 04/23, and 04/30. TAMUG competed well in each event and won all three! Congratulations to the team and good luck at Nationals! The national championships will be held June 1st through the 10th at Austin Yacht Club on Lake Travis. The results can be found here: Team Racing, Women and Coed. Also pictures were taken at all of the events, which can be found on the pictures page: District Championships at UT.

TAMUG ranked #17!	02.17.05
College Sailing ranked TAMUG (listed as Texas A&M) as #17 in the nation for Coed sailing! Congratulations to the whole team on your hard work in the past regattas. Keep up the good work and keep at it until you reach #1! View the rankings here.

A New Semester!	01.17.05
The TAMUG Sailing team will begin practicing for the Spring semester to get to the ultimate goal, winning North Americans! Any interested sailors should come by this week, practice with and meet the team, and talk with Coach Coleman. We will be expecting another stellar season! Check out the results and report from the Sloop National Championships: Results - Report. ***Print out the sign-up sheet and feel free to look around the join page!

A New Semester!

01.17.05

The TAMUG Sailing team will begin practicing for the Spring semester to get to the ultimate goal, winning North Americans! Any interested sailors should come by this week, practice with and meet the team, and talk with Coach Coleman. We will be expecting another stellar season! Check out the results and report from the Sloop National Championships: Results - Report.

***Print out the sign-up sheet and feel free to look around the join page!

TAMUG Sailing Team Wins North American Sloops Championship!	11.29.04
The Texas A&M University at Galveston sailing team finished their 2004 fall season with a win at the 2004 Intercollegiate North American Sloop Championship. The regatta was hosted by the University of California at Irvine and was held in Newport Beach, California at the Balboa Yacht Club November 19-21, 2004. Other competing universities included the University of Southern California, Yale University, Tufts University, University of South Florida, US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, US Naval Academy, University of Washington, Ohio University and the University of Michigan. The big team from the small branch-campus of Texas A&M shocked the collegiate racing world with their win at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) North American Sloop Championship regatta. “To our knowledge, we are the smallest school in the nation to ever win a National Championship in Sailing,” stated Coach Gerard Coleman. In college sailing, a sloop is a three-person boat with a spinnaker. Each crew member contributes to strategy, tactics, and boat handling. Each team competing at the national level must qualify in their own district. There are over 200 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada actively competing in intercollegiate sailing. The TAMUG team qualified for this event by winning their district championship held in Fort Worth, Texas at Eagle Mountain Lake October 29-31. Sail Team members Scott Stanton, Andrew McInnes, Brad Winslett, and Nick Moraski were the four team members who traveled with Coach Gerard Coleman for the competition, but all of them are very quick to state that this victory belongs to the entire Sailing Team. All of them worked hard throughout the year representing Texas A&M University at Galveston at all the various disciplines at ICSA National Championships (other disciplines include singlehanded men and women, doublehanded coed and women, and team racing). However, they brought home the trophy and the North American Championship in the sloop discipline. “This is the first National Championship won by Texas A&M University at Galveston since the 1980s when the offshore team won the Kennedy Cup,” stated Coach Coleman. The team spirit is very strong amongst these Aggie sailors. All of them are very hesitant to be quoted because they all believe so strongly that the whole team was instrumental in this victory. Two of the sailors said, “We knew we could do it, we’ve always believed. We were able to execute this weekend and bring home the trophy.” Little or not, the big belief of this team won through. Brad Winslett came to Texas A&M University at Galveston because of the uniqueness of its ocean-oriented business degree program and because of the sail team. He stated, “I thought we were good, but I didn’t know how we would do against such tough competition. After the first race, I was thinking, ‘we can do this, we can really do this.’” The four competitors who returned from California were greeted by a campus police “escort” and team mates with posters of congratulations. The entire Team celebrated their victory by dousing Coach Coleman with the traditional “Gatorade.” “We’re so proud of this team” stated Interim Vice President and CEO Bill Hearn, “their spirit, team-work, and ‘can-do’ attitude are indicative of the students at this small but resourceful campus. Congratulations to this team of sailors for your outstanding accomplishment in winning this National Championship.”

TAMUG Sailing Team Wins North American Sloops Championship!

11.29.04

The Texas A&M University at Galveston sailing team finished their 2004 fall season with a win at the 2004 Intercollegiate North American Sloop Championship. The regatta was hosted by the University of California at Irvine and was held in Newport Beach, California at the Balboa Yacht Club November 19-21, 2004. Other competing universities included the University of Southern California, Yale University, Tufts University, University of South Florida, US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, US Naval Academy, University of Washington, Ohio University and the University of Michigan.

The big team from the small branch-campus of Texas A&M shocked the collegiate racing world with their win at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) North American Sloop Championship regatta.

“To our knowledge, we are the smallest school in the nation to ever win a National Championship in Sailing,” stated Coach Gerard Coleman.

In college sailing, a sloop is a three-person boat with a spinnaker. Each crew member contributes to strategy, tactics, and boat handling. Each team competing at the national level must qualify in their own district. There are over 200 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada actively competing in intercollegiate sailing. The TAMUG team qualified for this event by winning their district championship held in Fort Worth, Texas at Eagle Mountain Lake October 29-31.

Sail Team members Scott Stanton, Andrew McInnes, Brad Winslett, and Nick Moraski were the four team members who traveled with Coach Gerard Coleman for the competition, but all of them are very quick to state that this victory belongs to the entire Sailing Team. All of them worked hard throughout the year representing Texas A&M University at Galveston at all the various disciplines at ICSA National Championships (other disciplines include singlehanded men and women, doublehanded coed and women, and team racing). However, they brought home the trophy and the North American Championship in the sloop discipline.

“This is the first National Championship won by Texas A&M University at Galveston since the 1980s when the offshore team won the Kennedy Cup,” stated Coach Coleman.

The team spirit is very strong amongst these Aggie sailors. All of them are very hesitant to be quoted because they all believe so strongly that the whole team was instrumental in this victory. Two of the sailors said, “We knew we could do it, we’ve always believed. We were able to execute this weekend and bring home the trophy.”

Little or not, the big belief of this team won through. Brad Winslett came to Texas A&M University at Galveston because of the uniqueness of its ocean-oriented business degree program and because of the sail team. He stated, “I thought we were good, but I didn’t know how we would do against such tough competition. After the first race, I was thinking, ‘we can do this, we can really do this.’”

The four competitors who returned from California were greeted by a campus police “escort” and team mates with posters of congratulations. The entire Team celebrated their victory by dousing Coach Coleman with the traditional “Gatorade.”

“We’re so proud of this team” stated Interim Vice President and CEO Bill Hearn, “their spirit, team-work, and ‘can-do’ attitude are indicative of the students at this small but resourceful campus. Congratulations to this team of sailors for your outstanding accomplishment in winning this National Championship.”

TAMUG Sailing WANTS YOU!	09.21.04
The Texas A&M Galveston Sailing team urges anyone who is interested in joining the team to come to practice at Teichman campus. If you need directions, click here. Remember that no experience is needed to sail. We will teach you everything you need to know from how to set up the boats and basic skills for crewing and skippering. If you are interested but have some questions, ask any sail team member listed on the roster page. We hold practice Monday through Friday 3:30pm to 6pm, but you can sail whenever you don't have school or work. Also let Coach Coleman know if you will be late to practice due to work/class and we will have someone wait for you to arrive. Thank you and we hope to see you at practice! ***Print out the sign-up sheet here and bring it to practice with you!

TAMUG Sailing WANTS YOU!

09.21.04

The Texas A&M Galveston Sailing team urges anyone who is interested in joining the team to come to practice at Teichman campus. If you need directions, click here. Remember that no experience is needed to sail. We will teach you everything you need to know from how to set up the boats and basic skills for crewing and skippering. If you are interested but have some questions, ask any sail team member listed on the roster page. We hold practice Monday through Friday 3:30pm to 6pm, but you can sail whenever you don't have school or work. Also let Coach Coleman know if you will be late to practice due to work/class and we will have someone wait for you to arrive. Thank you and we hope to see you at practice!

***Print out the sign-up sheet here and bring it to practice with you!

Slide Show Pictures	08.29.04
Kevin gave me the pictures from the 2004 Banquet slide show this summer and I finally put them up, so check them out here. Some of the pictures existed in other pages, so I omitted them from the slide show page. Enjoy!

Pictures from Nationals at the Columbia River Gorge	08.26.04
Coach Coleman sent me some pics from Nationals. It looks like they had plenty of fun when they weren't sailing. More pics from Nationals will be posted soon.