The 2021 NESSA Team Race Standings page is up and running.  Go to the RANKING page for more information

Our season starts this week, with a handful of regattas April 10-11, including some qualifiers. Here's what you need to know:

COVID. We are proceeding cautiously, and hoping that we are able to have a complete season, including district qualifiers and national championships. A lot hangs in the balance of how the pandemic trends in the next month. All regatta hosts and high school teams should be following the requirements of their local and state governing agencies. This will likely mean that some teams may not be able to travel to some regattas, and while this is unfortunate, we have enough hosts and teams who are able to conduct events within the guidelines that we are proceeding with the season. Please read the NORs carefully  for any additional COVID-related requirements in place for each event.  

SCHEDULE. The full schedule, including Notices of Race (NORs) and Registration links, is available on the MISSA website. Please check it regularly as things are fluid this year and regattas are still being added or re-scheduled.

NOR DEADLINES. For qualifiers and championships (tier 1 and 2 regattas), we will continue to enforce registration deadlines strictly, so please read the NORs carefully and make sure your team is fully registered on time. Many of those deadlines are this week.

PRE-QUALIFIERS. For the West and Central leagues, your Baker (team racing) pre-qualifier is this weekend, and Mallory (fleet racing) pre-qualifier is the following weekend. The East league will combine their Mallory and Baker qualifiers into the second weekend, but is splitting the event into two separate pre-qualifiers for Ohio and Michigan.

TEAM REGISTRATION. Also, please remember that to be eligible to compete in any high school sailing regatta, your team needs to be an active member of MISSA and ISSA. You can check the status of your school under "Directory". If the status is not listed as "Active," your team is currently not eligible. A status of "Pending" means that a team admin has made some changes to the school info this year, but that dues have not been received.

TECHSCORE. This is also a good time to make sure your team leader (coach or primary admin) has an active TechScore account. This is needed not only for regatta hosts and scorers, but also for every team to enter its Record of Participation forms at each regatta.

Let's have a great season!

The PCISA Board in conjunction with the hosts has canceled the NorCal and SoCal events for April 17-18, 2021. They have been re-scheduled (as previously discussed) for May 1-2, 2021.

State, County and Local re-opening guideline developments and modifications are expected to be announced from April 6^th through April 13^th. Due to this, formal announcements about scheduled events may come sooner than the Decision Dates as published here.

NORs for both the Baker Qualifier and the Mallory Qualifier are now posted on the NESSA website with their accompanying documents.  

The PCISA Board met again on Tuesday evening, March 23rd. It is noted that things are moving in a very positive direction but that State and County Guidance has not yet moved to a place that allows High School Sailing Events that involve multiple teams and participants from numerous Counties. Several schools, districts, and athletic departments have confirmed their expectation for firm compliance with these guidelines for High School Sailing Teams.