Stanford sailors Avery Baldwin and Thomas Sitzmann will race at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Singlehanded Championships on Nov. 7-8 after each won Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference singlehanded titles in September.

Baldwin, a sophomore, won the women’s PCCSC singlehanded competition. Sitzmann, a senior, took the open title. Both earned their spots in the national field through those conference wins, according to Stanford Athletics.

The championships are hosted by American Yacht Club and Fordham University in Rye, New York, according to the ICSA championship page.

Neither sailor is new to the event. Sitzmann finished third and Baldwin finished seventh at last season’s singlehanded championships.

Their qualifying performances in Seattle were dominant. Baldwin finished first in all seven races at the PCCSC event, posting seven points to beat second-place California’s 22. Sitzmann won six of seven races and finished second in the other, totaling eight points to the runner-up’s 15, Stanford Athletics reported in September.

Head coach Chris Klevan praised the team’s early-season work after that Seattle sweep. “After a hard preseason, it seems that those who have already hit the road have an appreciation for what makes us who we are and the community that comes from the distance we cover together,” Klevan said in the September recap.

Stanford has produced five ICSA Singlehanded champions, according to its preview. Chapman Petersen won the men’s title in 2022. The last women’s champion came in 2018.

The singlehanded event is one piece of a busy postseason stretch. Four more Cardinal sailors will compete at the ICSA Match Race National Championships on Nov. 14-15 at Balboa Yacht Club. Dylan Sih, Alice Schmid, Freddie Parkin and Thomas Whidden make up that crew. Sih, Schmid, Parkin and Whidden won the PCCSC Match Race Championship Oct. 3-4.

The program enters the postseason on a roll. Stanford has won 11 of 16 competitions this fall, with four of the five non-wins being second-place finishes, according to its Nov. 5 preview.

Under head coach Klevan, Stanford has won nine of its 10 team national championships since the 2021-22 season. Last season the team claimed a fourth straight women’s fleet race title and a third straight women’s team race crown.

Seven of last season’s 10 ICSA All-Americans are back this year. Returning seniors Reade Decker, Sitzmann, Kit Harned and Schmid carry a combined nine All-America selections, Stanford said.