Bad News!

Practice, Practice, Practice all day in the sun. Photo:Michael Anderson

Practicing twice as hard for next year. Photo: Michael Anderson

Sunday April 24, 2011 The Sailing club receives bad news about nationals. The CSULB sailing club qualified for nationals in Santa Barbara when they placed seventh in their race out of 30 schools. The event they qualified for is called the Pacific Coast Championship or some call it the PCC, Held usually out of state but this Year its held in CSULB’s back yard, the Long Beach Harbor. The Bad news is even know they qualified, the sailing club is not allowed to compete in the race. The school has made a rule that if it your first year as a “team” then that team is not allowed to race in the championship. Team President Shane Young expressed his feelings about the situation “I think it’s unfair because we haven’t been extended the same opportunities as other schools and we have all worked very hard to get to where we are now.”  The whole team is disappointed on the news they heard Sunday but have no control over the situation. “ I am so bummed, we practice, we compete, we work so hard to get seventh place out of 30 schools and then we hear this horrible news, the worst part about it is that its help in our harbor. If we were to compete in this race we would basically have home court advantage, its such a disappointment that we are not allowed to race.” Vice President Laura Newton explained. She went on to explain that the team would just work twice as hard during the off-season and comeback next year to win the whole thing. Laura is very confident that her team can do it and it’s a great person to reach out for motivation.