[SCYYRA] Rose Bowl Regatta

[Michael Segerblom]

25th annual Rose Bowl Regatta 

 

       Alamitos Bay Yacht Club, Long Beach, Calif.   

                            Jan. 2-3, 2010 

 

   Organized by the U.S. Sailing Center, Long Beach 

                                Hosted by the USC Varsity Sailing Team

 

 


Dec. 30, 2009

 

25th RB Regatta for college, high school sailors    

 

Long Beach, Calif.   

 

Twenty-seven colleges from the East Coast to Hawaii and 54 high school teams
representing 41 schools from throughout California will celebrate the silver
anniversary of the nation's largest combined scholastic sailing competition
in the 25th annual Rose Bowl Regatta Saturday and Sunday.  

 

Several of the 41 high schools will have multiple teams in Varsity, JV I and
JV II categories. That means more than 300 sailors rotating off the beach in
two-person CFJ dinghies. Each team's A and B boats will compete on separate
courses on the inside bays in series of races starting at 11 a.m. each day,
conditions permitting. 

 

The event is organized by the US Sailing Center of Long Beach, hosted by the
USC sailing team and based at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club. 

 

Mike Segerblom, executive director of the US Sailing Center, emphasized that
it's more a team sport than an individual event, as it was when he competed
for USC in the first Rose Bowl Regatta in 1986. Others he raced with and
against that year included the late Nick Scandone, who won a Paralympic gold
medal in China in 2008; Scandone's Paralympic coach, Mike Pinckney and his
brother Jon, and Olympic silver medalists John Shadden and Charlie Ogletree.


 

But none were competing for personal glory. 

 

"High school and college sailing is a team sport," Segerblom said. "It takes
two [A and B] teams combining scores, and a good team will have six or eight
people alternating." 

 

And nowadays about half will be girls, who numbered about one fourth of the
competitors in 1986 but through the years in the U.S. and elsewhere have
evolved onto virtually equal footing with the boys, some as skippers and
many as crew on the top boats. 

 

"It's about a 50-50 split," Segerblom said, "with many certainly as good as
the guys." 

 

One of them this year will be Marissa Golison, daughter of Jay Golison who
with Segerblom organized the forerunner to the Rose Bowl Regatta---the
colorfully dubbed post-New Year's "Hangover Regatta." 

 

This time St. Mary's of Maryland, victorious in 2007 and 2008 and fourth in
2009, returns as a favorite in the absence of 2009 champion Boston College
and runnerup MIT, although third-place Georgetown will compete.
Georgetown's Charlie Buckingham of Newport Beach was the college sailor of
the year in 2009. 

 

As usual, Point Loma and Newport Harbor are expected to battle again among
the high schools, although their dominance is being challenged by Corona del
Mar and Cathedral Catholic, which finished 1-2 at the Pacific Coast High
School [Anteater] Regatta in Newport Beach early in December.   

 

MORE INFORMATION 

 

 
<http://www.uscsailing.org/Rosebowl/Rose%20Bowl%202010/Rosebowlentries1pm.pd
f> Entry list 

 

 <http://pcisa.org/2010/AnteaterGoldResults.htm> High school regatta results


 

 <http://www.pcisa.org/> Pacific Coast high school info  

 

 <http://www.abyc.org/event.cfm?id=326> Complete 2009 Rose Bowl results,
photo gallery and more  

 

 <http://www.collegesailing.org/> Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association team
rankings, all-Americans and more 

 

United States Sailing Center 

(562) 433-7939 

 <http://www.ussclb.org/> www.ussclb.org 

 

 <http://www.uscsailing.org/> www.uscsailing.org 

 <http://www.abyc.org/> www.abyc.org 

 

Rich Roberts 

Press Officer 

310.835.2526 

cell 310.766.6547

richsail at earthlink.net 

 


                                           

 

 

 

 

 

Action from January 2009 

 



 



 



 

 

Click <http://www.abyc.org/event_specific_photos.cfm?id=383>  to download 

 <http://www.abyc.org/event_specific_photos.cfm?id=383> high-resolution
versions of these 2009 photos

 

 

  

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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