COUPEVILLE – The Bainbridge High School sailing team has been named as the 2015 Northwest Interscholastic Sailing Association’s District Fleet Race Champions following last weekend’s regatta in Coupeville on Whidbey Island.

More than 16 teams from the Northwest district competed for the championship.

The Varsity A and Varsity B boats both won their first race and maintained their first place ranking overall through 11 races on Saturday and Sunday.

The Varsity A sailors were Stasi Burzycki, Will Brown and Nick Dresel and the Varsity B sailors were Jackson McCoy, Hannah Harrison and Josh Rentz. The team finished with a score of 67.

Second- and third-place teams were separated by only a point, with Woodinville taking the lead over Sehome (Olympia) 93 over 92.

With the win, the varsity team qualified to compete at the national level in the Mallory Trophy ISSA Fleet Race Championship at the Naval Academy in Maryland.

The team, however, forfeited their placement in favor of competing in Woodinville hopes that they will qualify for the Baker Trophy ISSA Team Race Championship held in Chicago this year.

The NWISA Team Racing District Championship is this weekend at Sail Sand Point on Lake Washington.

The BHS JV team sailed in a separate regatta at the same location and the Spartans’ 3 Team — comprised of Blake Bentzen and Sophia Kasper in Division A and Caelan Juckniess and Karl Anderson in Division B — also took first place out of 15 teams.

The Spartans 2 Team (Olivia Mitchell, Kat Smith, and Sophie Crandell in Division A and Elizabeth Rolfes, Harry Saliba and Nick Dresel in Division B) came in fourth.

The Spartans 1 Team (Lucas Burzycki and Christophe Webber in Division A and Nicole Sanford and Francine Brownell in Division B) took sixth place.

The course was set in Penn Cove. The winds shifted on Saturday necessitating a change in the race course with each shift. After the first race in Division A, the sailors had to wait for more than three hours for their second race in the series, while squalls blew in from the west until the wind direction settled and the race course could be set.

Sunday, winds were steady from the east, causing considerable chop.