Southern Maine High School

Upcoming Dates, Fall 2008
updated 8/20/2008
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Regular season begins on Tuesday, September 2^nd

VARSITY PRACTICE: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
(2:45pm – 5:45pm)
CLUB PRACTICE: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday (2:45pm – 5:45pm)

Important Dates:

Orientation: Monday, August 25th @ PYS
(Portland Yacht Services – 58 Fore St)

      5pm: Orientation for NEW parents and sailors

      6pm:  Orientation for All parents – new and old (no sailors)

         all sailors will eat pizza at SailMaine w/ team coach
      7pm:  all sailors and parents depart

Team Meeting: Wednesday, August 27^th @ Coach Schwarm's Office, 5:30 - 6:30 PM
All team members – new and returning (sailors only)

PRE-SEASON for Returning Sailors --- for sailors who have been on the HS team in a previous season

Day 1:        Monday, August 25^th
     1:00 - 2:00: Boat work (rig boats)

     2:00 - 2:30: snack: please bring water and a light snack

     2:30 - 5:45: practice on the water

              6:00: pizza, etc for all sailors

              7:00: all sailors and parents depart

Day 2: Tuesday, August 26^th
   10:00 - 12:00: Boat work (repairs)/ chalk talk
   12:00 - 12:30: lunch
   12:30 - 4:00:   practice on the water

No Practice Monday, September 1^st

SMHS Roster, Spring 2008

SMHS Regattas, Spring 2008
Please click here for a PDF of our Regatta Schedule.

Southern Maine High School Sailing was founded by 12 Waynflete School sailors in the fall of 1999 as Casco Bay High School Sailing. It is an all-encompassing high school sailing program for fall and spring seasons that admits any Portland area student in the 8th grade or above. Entering the 2005-2006 school year, SMHSS had an overall enrollment of over 40 students from 8 Portland area high schools, including Yarmouth, Falmouth, Portland, Catherine McAuley, South Portland, Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough and North Yarmouth Academy.

Since 1999, team members have won the Maine State High School Championship, and the Northern New England High School Championship twice. Southern Maine won the 2004 Downeast Fleet Racing Championship, the Casco Bay Bash Open Fleet Race from 2002-2004, and placed second at the 2004 NESSA Herreschoff Trophy (Women's Invitational). A number of former SMHSS sailors have gone on to sail at colleges such as Eckerd, Yale, Connecticut College, Bowdoin, Maine Maritime Academy, and others. As we continue to develop our program as Southern Maine High School Sailing, we look forward to helping more young athletes excel.

The goal of SMHSS is to provide racing opportunities for students whose schools do not yet have an official team, while "incubating" teams that will later become individual members of the New England Scholastic Sailing Association (NESSA). NESSA is our regional "league" within the national Inter Scholastic Sailing Association (ISSA), the national governing body of high school sailing in the United States.

In order for a school team to become a member of ISSA and NESSA, it must be recognized by its school's administration, either as a varsity team or a club team. Students from schools that are unable or unwilling to recognize an official NESSA team may join the Southern Maine High School team, which is allowed to compete in a limited number of NESSA events each year that do not lead to a national ISSA championship event.

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