Recognizing college sailing athletes

Recognizing athletic achievement during the 2022-23 College season, the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association has selected the All-America Team, Open and Women’s Sailor of the Year, and Crew of the Year.

Quantum Women’s College Sailor of the Year
Carmen Cowles, Yale University 2025

Everett B Morris College Sailor of the Year
Jack Egan, Yale University 2025

Mitch Brindley Crew of the Year
Anisha Arcot, Yale University 2023

2023 Quantum Women’s College Sailor of the Year: Carmen Cowles, Yale University, 2025

“I am proud to join an accomplished group of women who have won the Quantum Women’s College Sailor of the Year Award,” said Cowles. “Winning this award is a reflection of the hard work that my teammates and I have put in this past year. I’m also very proud to be a part of the current group of highly skilled women sailors across college sailing.”

Carmen Cowles

2023 Everett B. Morris College Sailor of the Year: Jack Egan, Yale University, 2025
Finalists: Robert Bragg Dartmouth College 2023, Lachlain McGrannahan Harvard University 2024

“I am extremely grateful to receive College Sailor of the Year,” shared Egan. “Many of the people who I have looked up to as mentors are previous recipients, so this means a lot to me. I’d like to thank my teammates, coaches, and specifically Catherine Webb and Nathan Sih without whom I couldn’t have achieved this.”

Jack Egan

2023 Mitch Brindley Open Crew of the Year: Anisha Arcot, Yale University, 2023
Finalists: Ellie Harned, Stanford University 2026; Abigail Tindall, Stanford University 2023; Catherine Webb, Yale University 2023

“I am overflowing with gratitude to be the first winner of the Mitch Brindley Crew of the Year Award,” gushed Arcot. “My teammates have been my greatest source of inspiration these last five years and it certainly wouldn’t have been possible without my Yale family and our amazing coaching staff. Thank you to everyone who made this award possible and supported my college sailing career, including especially my skippers Teddy Nicolosi and Carmen Cowles.”

Anisha Arcot (left) with Mitch Brindley

This Spring, the ICSA Board at the recommendation of the All-America Committee, voted to establish an ICSA Crew of the Year Award. Charles Higgins said, “While the Everett Morris and Quantum Awards seek to honor outstanding sailors in both Open and Women’s competition, to date there had not been a crew that had been named as a finalist for either award. There has been widespread support for many years over the creation of an award that honors the top crew in a similar manner.”

In the creation of this award, the topic of who it should be named after came up and the intent was to name it after someone who exhibited all of the qualities of a top-level All-American Crew: Exemplary competitive record, Quality of competition in achieving that record, Results achieved with different skippers, Outstanding boat-handling skills, Demonstrated Leadership, Proven ability to improve the results of skippers with whom he/she/them sails.

With those qualities in mind, the committee and board unanimously agreed that this new award should be named after Mitchell Brindley, Class of 1989, Old Dominion University.

During his time at Old Dominion, Mitch was both a team captain and a multi-discipline National Champion. He was named an ICSA Crew All-Star in both his junior and senior seasons. Along with numerous division wins, his career was highlighted with a Sloop National Championship in the fall of 1988, as well as a dominant win in A-division to secure the National Championship in the 1989 Coed Dinghy National Championship for the Henry A. Morss Trophy en route to claiming the Fowle Trophy in the same year.

Mitch later became an Assistant and then Head Coach at Old Dominion, leading the program to eight National titles, where dozens of crews have earned All-America Crew honors under his tutelage.

ICSA All-American Honors
The All-America Selection Committee consists of one representative from each of the seven ICSA Conferences and one additional representative each from MAISA and NEISA.

The All America Selection Committee was made up of: Bill Healy, Chair (NEISA), Rebecca McElvain (NEISA), John Mollicone (NEISA), Isaac Clark (MAISA), Dillon Paiva (MAISA), Geoff Pedrick (MCSA), Emily Shanley-Roberts (MCSA), Chris Klevan (PCCSC), Esteban Forrer (SAISA), Charles Higgins (SEISA).

All American Crews
Anisha Arcot, Yale University 2023
Shaanti Choi-Bose, University of Pennsylvania 2024
Izzy Cox, Brown University 2023
Patricia Gerli, Stanford University 2023
Ellie Harned, Stanford University 2026
Kennedy Leehealey, Harvard University 2026
Sarah Moeder, Yale University 2026
Sam Muir, St. Mary’s College of Maryland 2022
Lauren O’Neill, U.S. Coast Guard Academy 2024
Nora Ong, Brown University 2023
Ellie Sekowski, St. Mary’s College of Maryland 2023
Aisling Sullivan, Dartmouth College 2022
Abigail Tindall, Stanford University 2023
Helena Ware, Yale University 2023
Catherine Webb, Yale University 2023
Yumi Yoshiyasu, Dartmouth College 2024
Savannah Young, Brown University 2025

Honorable Mention All American Crews
Grace Austin, Stanford University 2024
Lydia Brown, Tulane University 2023
Julia Christie,U.S Naval Academy 2024
Gabbi DelBello,Cornell University 2023
Jack Farrell, U.S. Coast Guard Academy 2023
Benjamin Markert, Yale University 2023
Molly Matthews, Roger Williams University 2023
Maaya Prasad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Andrea Riefkohl-Gonzalez, Tulane University 2024
Meredith Ryan, Yale University 2023
Sara Schumann, Boston College 2025
Ryan Wahba, U.S. Naval Academy 2025

All American Women’s Skippers
Carmen Cowles, Yale University 2025
Emma Cowles, Yale University 2025
Hannah Freeman, Stanford University 2024
Bridget Green, Cornell University 2025
Maddie Hawkins, Dartmouth College 2024
Dana Haig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Michelle Lahrkamp, Stanford University 2023
Vanessa Lahrkamp, Stanford University 2026
Mia Nicolosi, Yale University 2025
Colleen O’Brien, Boston College 2024

Honorable Mention All American Women’s Skippers
Caroline Bayless, Brown University 2023
Emily Bornarth, U.S. Coast Guard Academy 2024
Eva Blauvelt, U.S. Naval Academy 2025
Cordelia Burn, Harvard University 2025
Sarah Burn, Harvard University 2024
Piper Holthus, Georgetown University 2025
Elizabeth Kaplan, Bowdoin College 2023
Blaire McCarthy, Brown University 2023
Michaela O’Brien, Boston College 2024
Ciara Rodriguez-Horan, Tulane University 2022

All American Skippers
Leo Boucher, St. Mary’s College of Maryland 2022
Robert Bragg, Dartmouth College 2023
Jordan Bruce, University of Pennsylvania 2024
Justin Callahan, Harvard University 2026
Carmen Cowles, Yale University 2025
Jack Egan, Yale University 2025
Maddie Hawkins, 2024, Dartmouth College
Michelle Lahrkamp, Stanford University 2023
Vanessa Lahrkamp, Stanford University 2024
Lachlain McGranahan, Harvard University 2024
Connor Nelson Brown University 2024
Liam O’Keefe, Brown University 2026

Honorable Mention All American Skippers
Stephan Baker, Yale University 2026
Guthrie Braun, Brown University 2026
Sam Bruce, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Mitchell Callahan, Harvard University 2026
Mariner Fagan, Georgetown University 2024
Cameron Giblin, Tulane University 2023
Owen Hennessey, St. Mary’s College of Maryland 2025
Gavin McJones, U.S. Naval Academy 2023
William Michels, Dartmouth College 2025
Teddy Nicolosi, Yale University 2024
Colman Schofield, U.S. Coast Guard Academy 2025
Nathan Smith, U.S. Naval Academy 2026
Daniel Unangst, U.S. Coast Guard Academy 2024

Source: ICSA