Sailing is part of high school athletics and with college opportunities, too ...Middle East

The list of Orange County athletes who signed with colleges Wednesday includes the sport of sailing.

High school sailing?

It exists.

Three of the seniors on Mater Dei’s list of signees Wednesday are in the school’s sailing program: Tate Christopher, who signed with Tulane University; Brady Kennedy, who signed with Boston College; and Noah Stapleton, who signed with Brown University.

Mater Dei’s sailing program, which includes 30 students, competes in the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association that includes high school sailing along the West Coast and Hawaii.

The school’s sailing program started in 1998. It has won national team championships. Christopher has won a solo sailing championship.

Stapleton has been sailing for a long time.

“Literally since I was born,” Stapleton said. “My dad rigged up a boat for me and put me on board.”

Kennedy said he gets some entertaining reactions when he tells people what he does in high school sports.

“They’ll say ‘you do sailing?’” Kennedy said. “You have to be really dedicated to it. A pretty big number of schools actually have sailing.”

Sailing is a thriving college sport, too. This year 170 U.S. colleges compete in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association.

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