Shields Trophy

# SchoolTeam A TOT
1 College of Charleston College of Charleston Cougars 8 8
2 U. S. Merchant Marine Academy U. S. Merchant Marine Academy Mariners 11 11
3 U. S. Naval Academy U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen 17 17
4 U. S. Coast Guard Academy U. S. Coast Guard Academy Bears 20 20
5 North Carolina State University North Carolina State University Wolfpack 22 22
6 University of Vermont University of Vermont Catamounts 30 30
7 Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 30 30
8 SUNY Maritime College SUNY Maritime College Privateers 31 31
9 Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers 32 32
10 U. S. Military Academy U. S. Military Academy Black Knights 34 34
SchoolTeam R1 R2 R3 R4 TOT
College of Charleston College of Charleston Cougars 1 2 4 1 8
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy U. S. Merchant Marine Academy Mariners 2 1 2 6 11
U. S. Naval Academy U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen 3 OCS 1 2 17
U. S. Coast Guard Academy U. S. Coast Guard Academy Bears DSQ OCS 3 4 20
North Carolina State University North Carolina State University Wolfpack 7 3 9 3 22
University of Vermont University of Vermont Catamounts 4 OCS 10 7 30
Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners 9 OCS 5 5 30
SUNY Maritime College SUNY Maritime College Privateers 8 OCS 7 9 31
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers 6 OCS 6 OCS 32
U. S. Military Academy U. S. Military Academy Black Knights 10 6 8 10 34
School Team Sailors
College of Charleston College of Charleston Cougars SkipperJohn Polek '26
CrewPhoenix Bliss '28
CrewJonathan Weed '26
CrewBo Dwyer '26
CrewLuke Tougas '27
CrewMiles Wolff '26
CrewGweneth Nechas '28
CrewGeorge Helme '27
Maine Maritime Academy Maine Maritime Academy Mariners SkipperIsaac Thompson '28
CrewSarah Shank '26
CrewAndrew Sicuranza '29
CrewDrake Reid '27
CrewTeo Crocetti '28
CrewRyan Becker '29
CrewJonah Beasley '26
CrewWilliam Ries '26
ReserveBeatrice Waterman '29
Massachusetts Maritime Academy Massachusetts Maritime Academy Buccaneers SkipperZach Earnshaw '27
CrewCole Capizzo '27
CrewAndrew Dyment '26
CrewMallory Dietsch '27
CrewOliver Browne '27
CrewHugo Langlais '28
CrewJoseph Gedraitis '27
CrewEvan Tofolo '28
ReserveShannon Brecher '26
North Carolina State University North Carolina State University Wolfpack SkipperBenjamin Usher '27
CrewAdam Nilsson '29
CrewJoe Lewandowski '26
CrewAnneliese Farner '28
CrewShea Hoffacker '27
CrewMarc Hauenstein '27
CrewChristopher Andersen '26
CrewLiam Holder '28
SUNY Maritime College SUNY Maritime College Privateers SkipperIsabelle Gautier '26
CrewMax Baldeon '29
CrewRobert Wieczorek III '27
CrewChristopher Zender '25
CrewEthan Narofsky '26
CrewTyler Mendes '25
CrewSebastien Lemaire '29
CrewLouis Kirk '29
ReserveVincent Colon '29
U. S. Coast Guard Academy U. S. Coast Guard Academy Bears SkipperConnor Boudreau '26
CrewSarah Evans '28
CrewCathryn Hegner '26
CrewEdward Jobson '27
CrewBenjamin de Ondarza '27
CrewKeith Teague '27
CrewJoshua Golden '26
CrewWilliam Spada '26
ReserveMara Maas '27
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy U. S. Merchant Marine Academy Mariners SkipperCharlie Lawrence '26
CrewMatthew Bohan '26
CrewWilliam Hussey '26
CrewCaleb Keister '26
CrewAnthony Rex '28
CrewColin Magill '26
CrewCaelan McMichael '26
CrewJames Thompson '26
ReserveBrianna Sheahan-Nguyen '28
U. S. Military Academy U. S. Military Academy Black Knights SkipperMcCaslin Miles '26
CrewSebastian Bustamante '26
CrewJon Searle '28
CrewThomas Brearley '27
CrewMadelyn Zimmerman '28
CrewBenjamin Lynch '27
CrewKota McCann '26
CrewElla Dieterlen '27
ReserveJesse Luknowsky '28
U. S. Naval Academy U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen SkipperColin Caraher '26
CrewMikael Fernandez '27
CrewLauren Aaby '27
CrewAndrew Alvey '26
CrewSammy Mentel '26
CrewWilliam Greene '28
CrewSawyer Barnard '26
CrewJackson Lubalin '27
University of Vermont University of Vermont Catamounts SkipperWilliam Denker '27
CrewMia Cassetta '29
CrewXander Petrush '28
CrewJulia Brighton '27
CrewVictor Kleppinger '29
Crewfrances gebhard '26
CrewRowan Henkes '28
CrewLucy Murphy '28

Performance rating asks, for each skipper: holding every other boat fixed, which rating makes my actual race-by-race finishes least surprising? Boats are valued with the keelboat rating rather than the fleet rating: 0.41 × the skipper's fleet rating from the week before the event (unrated skippers start at 0.47); 0.28 × the mean fleet rating of the rated crew aboard; the skipper's own keelboat offset; the school's program effect. Non-finishes (OCS, DNF and similar) are left out of the fitting, as in the rating model.

Percentile places a rating among the 207 ICSA sailors with a keelboat rating who raced the discipline in the last three seasons. Surprise is how many bits more surprising the finishes were at the pre-event rating than at the performance rating. P(this good or better) simulates the event 3,000 times at the pre-event ratings, with the same regatta-form model as the fleet analysis pages, and reports how often the skipper would score this many points or fewer in the races they sailed.

The keelboat offsets are the current ones (the discipline files keep no weekly history), so a skipper's own offset has already seen this event; offsets are shrunk hard, so the effect is a few hundredths at most. Only skippers are rated.

  • u no fleet rating — the model's level for unrated skippers is the baseline.

Division A  10 boats · 4 races

FinSkipperSchool Races Rating
before
Perf.
rating
Δ Percentile
before → perf.
Surprise
(bits)
P(this good
or better)
Avg finish
actual / exp.
1John Polek '26College of Charleston4/42.522.58+0.0699th → 99th0.027%2.0 / 2.9
2Charlie Lawrence '26U. S. Merchant Marine Academy4/41.072.22+1.1477th → 99th1.97%2.8 / 5.4
3Colin Caraher '26U. S. Naval Academy4/41.183.08+1.9079th → 99th3.435%4.2 / 5.1
4Benjamin Usher '27North Carolina State University4/40.940.60−0.3372nd → 54th0.252%5.5 / 5.5
5Connor Boudreau '26U. S. Coast Guard Academy4/41.41u2.10+0.6988th → 99th0.496%7.2 / 4.7
6Isaac Thompson '28Maine Maritime Academy4/41.390.45−0.9388th → 46th1.495%7.5 / 4.8
7William Denker '27University of Vermont4/40.70-0.04−0.7457th → 15th0.890%8.0 / 6.0
8McCaslin Miles '26U. S. Military Academy4/4-1.31-1.10+0.211st → 1st0.034%8.5 / 8.8
8Zach Earnshaw '27Massachusetts Maritime Academy4/40.851.24+0.3968th → 83rd0.298%8.5 / 5.7
10Isabelle Gautier '26SUNY Maritime College4/40.710.14−0.5658th → 22nd0.597%8.8 / 6.0

Conditions — 09/13/2025 (8am–6pm)

☀️Clear sky
Humidity 63%  ·  Pressure 1019.6 hPa

Temperature

74°F
↑ 79°F   ↓ 62°F
Feels like 77°F

Wind

● from   ▲ toward
3.0 kn
avg  ·  max 6.6 kn
Gusts to 14.6 kn
From SSE (167°)

Sky & Precipitation

Cloud cover8% Sunshine11.0 hrs Humidity63% Pressure1019.6 hPa

What this breeze does at Navy — from fleet racing

Breeze: S about 6 kn (weather reanalysis in the scorer’s units)
In fleet races at Navy in this breeze: a strongly favourites’ day (+0.10)
Favourites’ conditions: in fleet racing here the results follow the ratings more closely than usual, and the top seeds hold their places.

Orderliness is how tightly a fleet race’s finishing order follows the pre-regatta ratings, relative to a typical event (0): positive is the favourites’ day, negative the underdogs’. A value of ±0.10 means a rating gap counts about 9% more than on a typical day. This event is not a fleet race the rating model scores, so there is no actual value for it: this is what this venue’s fleet racing history says about the breeze on the day, read off the chart at the star. How this is estimated · compare venues.

Orderliness beyond the fleet at Navy by wind direction (angle) and speed (rings), fitted surface; dots are labelled regatta-days, ★ this regatta (114 labelled fleet-race days at Navy).

From the notes

Short write-ups of what the ratings and results show, with the numbers and how they were computed.

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