Tufts Jumbos sailing

The Tufts University Sailing Team represents Tufts University in the intercollegiate sport of sailing. They are members of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA), the governing body for collegiate sailing, and compete at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA).

Tufts University Sailing Team
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UniversityTufts University
ConferenceNEISA
LocationMedford, Massachusetts
VenueBacow Sailing Pavilion
Area of CompetitionUpper Mystic Lake
NicknameJumbos

National championships

The team holds 28 National Championships:

And received the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy in eight seasons: 1975, 1976, 1984, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999

Sailors

66 men and 25 women were All-Americans.[1]

Team members have received the ICSA College Sailor of the Year award 4 times:

  • Roger Altreuter in 1975
  • R. Stuart Johnstone in 1980
  • Paul Dickey in 1981
  • Senet Bischoff in 1996

And the ICSA Women's College Sailor of the Year once:

  • Kaitlin Storck in 2008

Olympians

Carlos Echeverria in 1956; Peter Commette in 1976; Magnus Grävare in 1984; Mark Mendelblatt in 2004 and 2008; and Jen Provan in 2004 and 2008; are Olympic sailors from Tufts.

World champions

Sailing venue

The home for the Tufts University sailing program is the Bacow Sailing Pavilion, named after Lawrence Bacow and his wife, Adele Fleet Bacow. It opened in the fall of 2013 and was built on the foundation of its 60-year-old predecessor, on Medford's Upper Mystic Lake.[2]

Fleet

The fleet of Tufts University Sailing Team's includes 24 Larks and 6 FJs.

References

  1. "Hall of Fame". Tufts. Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
  2. "Tufts University launches new sailing center". Scuttlebutt Sailing News. Archived from the original on 2020-07-21. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
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