MEDFORD, MA (April 29, 2025) - The Tufts University Coed Sailing Team received an at-large selection into the 2025 Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Fleet Race National Championship on Tuesday evening. The ICSA Open Championship will be hosted by St. Mary's College (Md.) from May 24-27.
A total of 36 teams will compete at the national championship regatta, first in a pair of 18-team semifinal events. The top nine teams from each semifinal will advance to a two-day final. Twelve teams received automatic berths to Nationals from their top-two finishes at the regional championship regattas. Twenty-four at-large teams were determined by a selection committee and announced on the College Sailing Instagram page tonight. At-large berths were awarded based upon exemplary performance throughout the entire 2024-25 season.
Tufts will be one of 13 schools representing the strong New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association at the national championship. The Jumbos had a 10th-place finish at the 2025 New England Fleet Race Championship on April 19-20 in Rhode Island.
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Last year Tufts was fifth in the Open Fleet Race Western Semifinal to advance to the Finals, where the Jumbos placed 12th. The team was eighth in 2023 and ninth in 2022 at the Open Fleet Race National Finals. Historically, Tufts has won five Open Fleet Race Championships (1976, 1980, 1981, 1997, 2001).
The starting lineups for the national championship have not been officially announced yet. For the NEISA Fleet Race, Tufts utilized skippers
Ben Mueller,
Jack Flores,
Kurt Stuebe and
Oliver Keeves. Crews were
Kate Castleberry,
Cody Lamoreux,
Courtland Doyle,
Naomi Pedersen,
Wyatt Bischoff, Redding Kehril and
Cindy Wang.
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