The week of June 16- 21 as the SDYC summer program was beginning, my crew Grace McCarthy and I (Molly Pleskus) were on a plane to Rye, NY to participate in our second US Junior Women’s Doublehanded championship for the Ida Lewis Trophy.

SDYC Junior Program alum Zach Malcolm has set sail in Kingston, Canada and set his sights on winning the 29er North American Championships. With Race Day 2 underway, Malcolm and his skipper Max Brill have 3 great results in the books.

Wyn Adams and Ryan Poole, participants in the SDYC Sea Scouts program are competing against 72 of the world’s top Sea Scout sailors at Long Beach Yacht Club, June 22-28 for the rights to claim the William I. Koch International Sea Scout Cup.

There were two finalists for the prestigious Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year award: Nevin Snow (San Diego, Calif.), a sophomore at Georgetown University and Graham Landy (Norfolk, Va.), a junior at Yale University.

The Interscholastic Sailing Association (ISSA) held the final High School Championship of the sailing season with the Baker Team Race Championship in Seabrook, TX. Congratulations to Point Loma High School on another High School Championship this season.

Besides honoring the most important women in the world, SDYC observed another Mother's Day tradition by hosting the High School Doublehanded National Championship. The top twenty teams from around the country assembled to vie for ISSA's coveted Mallory Trophy.

US Sailing has selected SDYC's Nevin Snow to represent the U.S. as skipper at the inaugural ISAF Youth Match Racing World Championship July 22-27, 2014 in Finland. Snow and his team from Georgetown are the current intercollegiate Match Racing National Champions.

On the weekend of April 4-6, SDYC sent a team comprise mainly of College All Americans, National Champions, America’s Cup Sailors and former US Sailing Olympic Team members to compete in the 2014 Baldwin Cup.