Annie Haeger is arguably the most decorated female college sailor in history.  Women’s All American all four years, the only sailor to be nominated for the Quantum female College sailor of the year three times, winning in 2011, she also was only the second woman in history to be awarded Co-ed All American status.  Tying Olympic Gold Medalist Anna Tunnicliffe with three Single-handed College National Championships, Haeger also achieved success in the double-handed discipline winning B division her freshman year, finishing top four 3x as a starter on the coed team racing team, leading her team to a Women’s National Championship as a Senior and finally, finishing out her Senior year with a 4th at the Coed National Championship which is the highest finish ever by a woman skipper.

In all, she lead Boston College to 2 Fowle Trophies for the best team in the Nation and two other top 3 finishes and culminated her Boston College career by being named the Eagle of the Year which is  given annually to one male and one female senior student-athlete who are outstanding citizens, leaders, scholars and athletes.

Annie began her sailing career in the Optimist Dinghy, winning the Women’s National Championship, finishing 3rd in the open Championship and representing the United States at various European and South American events.  Highlights include the Women’s Championship at the 700+ boat International Meeting at Lake Garda and winning the North American Championship in Tobago.  Post the Optimist experience and prior to sailing at Boston College she qualified to represent the United States for the Youth Worlds twice in the Laser Radial, bringing home a Silver Medal in 2007.

While a full time college student and only able to train sporadically, Annie and her teammate Briana Provancha have already posted some impressive results against Olympians training full time in the 470.  This past January, competing against multiple teams that qualified for the Olympics they finished 7th at the Miami Olympic Classes regatta and were second in the medal race.  Now they have moved to the Miami area to begin to train full time to bring home the Gold to the United States in 2016.