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Julia Oak ’10 and
robin. They clinched the victory in the second-to-
Peter Johns ’08 (in
the-last race of the day, but the race was very
the middle boat) and
Kevin Martland ’10
close, McConnell said. The team rounded the
“Winning nationals was truly
and Alex Cook ’09
leeward mark in a losing combination and thought
(in the front boat) at
the writing was on the wall.
amazing. It was one of those moments
the Nationals in “I remember rounding that mark and telling
Minnesota in May.
Ben, ‘Ben, we have to go fast right now,’” when you simply cannot believe you
McConnell recalled. “He didn’t
say a word and I don’t think
achieved that highest goal.”
another word was said until we
—Anna McConnell ’09
“Task” Goals crossed that line.”
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Have the best tacks on the team.
Meanwhile, Crowther and
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Always have homework done before
the start of a race. Cook, whom the team calls
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Maintain boathandling all the times,
even when it is not the focus.
“Cookie,” were trailing
•
Always know the next move. behind their pair and were McConnell heard Johns hit the boat, and figured
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Know all of the rules and read
and re-read the call book.
engaged in a “tacking he was angry. “But we turned around and saw Pete
duel.” check smiling. I had never before been more excited to tell
“Wish” Goals
“In my opinion those Ben that we had won. He wouldn’t believe me at
•
Finish in the Top 5 at nationals.
•
Work as a team, no matter what three tacks were some of first and required that we sail to everyone and dou-
the finish.
the best Cookie and I had done ble check. Sure enough, we had won. With failed
• Have fun.
all season,” recalled Crowther. “In those last few attempts to ‘keep it together,’ we suppressed the joy
In the beginning of the yards we threw in a tack and then shot the line and relief and won the next race with full grins.”
season back in March,
(when you point your boat perpendicular to the For Crowther, it was also an especially mean-
varsity sailing coach Roy
line and let your boat coast). It usually gets you ingful win. Last fall she decided to apply early-
Williams asked his team
to the finish faster, but if you mess it up it can decision to the only non-sailing school that she
to write out their “task
goals” and “wish goals”
be a real problem). The bow of our boat crossed was seriously considering.
for the season. Above
the finish line a mere 10 inches ahead of our “I was accepted to Elon University and will
is then-junior Anna
opponents.” not be sailing next school year,” she said, “so for
McConnell’s answer Bainbridge and McConnell still assumed they me, winning nationals was the perfect way to end
to the assignment.
had lost that race. the season, my SG career, and my sailing career.”
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