Dave Perry describes it as the “Match Racing Bug”, and once you have it you can’t shake it. Since my first match race five years ago, I have had the bug. This summer I initially intended to do a few events, as I was participating in two finance internships and attending the London School of Economics, but when US Sailing gave me the US berth at the 2025 Youth World Match Race Championship, I decided to go all in.

Thank you for your generous contribution to the Newport Harbor and Corona del Mar High School Sailing Teams. Your tax-deductible contribution will help to support both teams and their continued success throughout this year. Thank you again for your support!

My first day of Ida Lewis was exciting, but also exhausting. It was the windiest conditions my crew and I had ever sailed and we found it to be very challenging. Our boat kept swamping but not flipping. A coach came over to us while everybody else was practicing and told us to flip the boat because that would help us get the water out.

Thank you to the Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation for helping support my sailing at the 2025 C420 South Shore Championship. This year, the regatta was on August 2-3 in West Sayville, New York. Bellport Bay Yacht Club hosted the event, but we sailed out of the Long Island Maritime Museum. My skipper, Carly Kieding, and I flew in on July 31 for one day of practice before the regatta.

Newport Harbor High School's sailing team was honored to receive a national invite to the Phebe Corckran King Memorial regatta, based on their performance in the 2024-2025 season. The high school team was beyond excited to receive the invite and even more thrilled with the opportunity to sail on the national level.

Being true student athletes there was concern with the event falling on the weekend before finals week.  But our sailors were committed as both students and athletes and "made it work" while keeping their grades up. Some of the sailors who attended this regatta even finished the year with straight A's and 5's on their AP tests!

Thank you to the Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation for helping support my sailing at the 2025 C420 North American Championship. This year, the regatta was on August 6-9 at Sayville Yacht Club in Blue Point, New York. My skipper, Carly Kieding, and I were already there because we had raced in the South Shore Championship, which was just two days prior.