Harvard Sailing ended the first day of finals at the 2026 Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Open Fleet Racing National Championship in 11th place, according to a May 21 announcement. The event took place in St. Petersburg, Florida, and featured shifting positions among top teams throughout the day.
The team reached as high as third during Thursday’s competition before finishing with a score of 144. Brown University led after a late surge with a score of 100, followed by Stanford (102), Navy (120), Penn (123), and Georgetown (127). Georgetown held fifth due to tiebreakers with Tulane and Yale. Roger Williams (129), Dartmouth (132), and College of Charleston (139) finished just ahead of Harvard.
For Harvard, Justin Callahan and Jacob Posner competed in A-Division races while Mitchell Callahan and Rosella Irfan raced in B-Division events. J. Callahan-Posner began strongly with fourth- and fifth-place finishes but struggled mid-day before ending on a positive note with another fourth-place finish for a total score of 70 points on the day.
M. Callahan and Irfan recorded single-digit finishes in five out of eight races for B-Division, including winning Race 3. Their performance was offset by two double-digit results—a twelfth- and thirteenth-place—and a disqualification in Race 8, leading to a Day-1 score of 74.
The final round will continue Friday at SkyBeach Resort starting at 8:30 a.m., where teams will compete for the national title.
