Tufts Jumbos sailing

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Tufts University Sailing Team
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University Tufts University
Conference NEISA
Location Medford, Massachusetts
Venue Bacow Sailing Pavilion
Area of Competition Upper Mystic Lake
Nickname Jumbos

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).

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Led by head coach Johnny Norfleet since 2023, who took the reins from Ken Legler after an illustrious 43-year career at Tufts, the team is one of the most successful in the history of college sailing.

National championships

The team holds 28 National Championships:

And received the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy (for the top overall team across the various national championships) 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:

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

Olympians

Carlos Echeverria in 1956; Peter Commette in 1976; Magnus Grävare in 1984; Mark Mendelblatt in 2004, 2008 and 2012; Jen Provan in 2004 and 2008; Tyler Paige in 2021; 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]

This two-story facility is one of the nicest in college sailing, with locker rooms, kitchen, meeting rooms and a large boatshop.

Fleet

The fleet of Tufts University Sailing Team's includes 24 Larks and 6 FJs, as well as several ILCAs.

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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.