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Nevin Snow: US SAILING’s Sailor of the Week

By | October 19, 2011

Hear what Nevin had to say last Friday at the U.S. Match Racing Championship:

 

There were a number of eye catching performers at last week’s U.S. Match Racing Championship off Newport Beach, Calif. Cathedral Catholic High School senior Nevin Snow made quite the showing by going in 8-3 in the round robin stage, including wins over two-time Champion Brian Angel, defending Champion Shawn Bennett and match racing veteran Scotty Dickson.

Snow has racked up the wins in different disciplines over the past few years. He won the 2011 Governor’s Cup in July, a match racing event hosted by the Balboa Yacht Club. Nevin’s team finished first out of 12. Similar to the U.S. Match Racing Championship, he was the youngest competing skipper. In 2010 he won the U.S. Junior Singlehanded Championship, and as a standout high school sailor he won the Interscholastic Sailing Association (ISSA) Cressy Nationals.

Earlier this month Nevin raced as part of the SoCal Luchadores at the U.S. Team Racing Championship in Houston. He sailed with Andrew Campbell, Brian Bissell, Allie Blecher, Jacqueline Campbell and Rebecca Nygren.

“It was amazing to sail against the best match racers and team racers in the country,” said Nevin. “I have learned more in the past two weeks of sailing than I have in the entire summer of sailing. At first it was quite daunting to be squaring off against College All-Americans and world champions, but soon it became evident that at these events, they are learning nearly just as much as I am.”

“The biggest thing that I learned, was to keep my eyes and ears open to absorb as much information as I could at all times. One second, Andrew Campbell, Brian Bissell and I are talking over our team's strategy in Houston, and then Dave Perry is explaining a match race situation that I have never seen before in Newport Beach. It was crazy to me the different angles that the best sailors in the world can take on a situation, but I also hope that they were intrigued by the sort of ideas that I had also.”

Nevin spoke about the variety of sailing he participates in, especially this past summer and fall. He finished third at the U.S. Youth Multihull Championship with his brother earlier last summer. He also spent time training at the Chicago Match Race Center. He sailed the CFJ Nationals, finished third at the U.S. Youth Sailing Championships, and is now training in the Laser to prepare for the upcoming Cressy High School Nationals in Chicago.

Another interesting tidbit on Nevin is his obsession with hats… “To any regatta over a long day or two, I bring with me about seven or eight hats, just in case the weather is changing, or I lose one.”

In the meantime, Nevin is working hard at cranking out the college applications.