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Palmer Trinity isn't just soaring to a
brighter future…it's sailing to it too! Yes,
that is correct. Palmer Trinity now has a
competitive high school sailing team that just
wrapped up a successful inaugural year.
The Palmer Trinity High School Sailing Team
is a co-ed team open to grades 9–12. The
PTS High School Sailing Team started its first
competitive season this academic year out of
the U.S. Sailing Center in Coconut Grove with a
fleet of two 420 sailing vessels, a coach boat and
a core team of 5 sailors: BR AY DEN BENE S CH ' 2 4,
IGN A CIO DEL HIER RO ' 2 5, C A R L O S ROIG ' 2 4, M A R I A NN A
S T OL ' 2 3 and R EECE W EBER ' 2 4. They competed
in 8 regattas in Miami, St Pete, Sarasota, New
Orleans, Clearwater, Jensen Beach and Davis
Island and although didn't qualify to attend the
National Championship Regatta, they finished the
season very strong.
S A I L I N G 1 0 1
High school sailing started in 1930 in New England.
Today it is experiencing tremendous growth
throughout the United States with over 500,000
registered youth sailors competing in the United
States. At the national level high school sailing is
governed by the Interscholastic Sailing Association,
known as the ISSA, and each high school sailing
team must be a member of ISSA to compete in
high school regattas. The ISSA is broken down
into 7 districts, Palmer Trinity is a part of the
South Atlantic District, known as the SAISA, which
encompasses Florida (except the panhandle),
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Northern Alabama and islands in the Caribbean.
There are currently 80 schools as active members
of the SAISA.
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