U. S. Naval Academy

Roster – Spring 2026

Skipper Rankings – Spring 2026

#	Skipper	Rating	League percentile	Team percentile	Races
1	Nathan Smith	4.39	98.43	92.86	35
2	Henry Allgeier	4.37	98.25	78.57	35
3	Hugh Carty	3.24	88.05	64.29	14
4	Leo Robillard	3.21	87.69	50.00	14
5	Ava Farley	2.55	77.93	35.71	36
6	Josephine Sherry	2.51	77.22	21.43	26
7	Kate Zurinskas	2.03	68.44	7.14	12

Skippers with at least 4 rated boat-races this season, ranked by their rating after their last race of the season. Percentiles count ties as half.

Crew Rankings – Spring 2026

#	Crew	Rating	Range	League percentile	Team percentile	Races
1	Ellie Alex	5.32		98.42	93.75	11
2	Ethan Martin	3.63		91.85	81.25	14
3	Sarah Mcnelly	3.38		89.62	68.75	27
4	Margo Cicero	2.88		83.18	56.25	14
5	Jessica Green	2.62		79.31	43.75	10
6	Eleanor Niehoff	2.62		79.19	31.25	33
7	Fiona Cullen	2.54		77.90	18.75	32
8	Mary Dwyer	2.46		76.96	6.25	20

Also on the roster, with little racing*

Crew*	Rating	Range	Races this season	Career races
Spencer Dominguez*	–	not enough data to rate	3	9
Darby Dryden*	1.95		5	53
Gregory Lesmerises Degraff*	1.68		3	31

What is pushing these ratings up or down

Crews are only compared through the skippers they have shared. A skipper's boats do a little better or worse than their rating predicts depending on who is crewing, and the rating is built from those differences. Each big blue dot is a crew on this roster, each small square a skipper they have sailed with, and each line a pairing: blue pushes the crew up, orange pushes them down, thicker means more racing behind it. Click a crew or a skipper.

How to read the Range column: the dot is the rating, the shaded band is where it plausibly sits (90% range), and the dashed line is the team's skipper average. A wide band means little evidence, and bands that overlap mean the crews cannot be told apart. Ratings are on the skipper scale: the team's skipper average plus each crew's difference from their teammates, multiplied by 18.7 so a team's crews spread out like its skippers. Crews on one team differ far less than skippers do, so each band is about as wide as the spread: use the ratings to line crews up across teams, not as a ranking within a team. Ranked crews have at least 8 races this season; * means low evidence (under 8 races this season, or under 30 career races with rated skippers). League percentile also reflects how strong the team's skippers are.