MEDFORD (September 5, 2025) – After a season of progress last year, the Tufts University sailing team is ready to build on its success as a new year starts this weekend.
The Jumbo coed team finished their 2025 spring season with a seventh-place finish at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Fleet Race Nationals, their best showing in 11 years. The Tufts women's team qualified for both spring championships, including the ICSA Team Race Nationals for the first time. Both of this year's teams have experienced sailors returning from last year in the skipper and crew positions.
Ben Mueller, a 2025 ICSA Honorable Mention All-America selection and the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Sportsman of the Year award winner for 2025, begins his senior season as one of the top skippers in the region. Tufts has one of the deepest rosters in college sailing with a long list of skippers competing for and ready to step into a more active starting role. Juniors
Wyatt Bischoff,
Gus Macaulay,
Courtland Doyle, and Devon Owen, senior
Clark Morris, and sophomore
Oliver Keeves all played key roles for the Jumbos last year and are prepared to step up as starters. This group is bolstered by senior co-captain
Blake Vogel and a group of talented sophomores and freshmen who will be key contributors at practice and could all make the jump to a starting role in the year ahead.
The coed team returns a handful of crews who gained significant experience last season. Sophomore
Kate Castleberry and junior
Cody Lamoreux (abroad in the fall) both crewed for Mueller at the national championships last spring. Seniors
Reddin Kehrli and
Greta Klein as well as junior
Sean Beaver return with experience as well. Additionally, any number of crews who have played active roles at the B-level events may step into more active starting roles as the year progresses.
Though the women's team took more losses to graduation than the coed squad, they still have good talent returning. Sophomore skipper
Sophia Hubbard was a team leader in her first season last year, racing at both the ICSA Team Race and Fleet Race Nationals. Senior
Ella Hubbard, Sophia's older sister, was a fall-season starter last year before leaving to study abroad in the spring. She returns and is expected to play a key role. Sophomore
Kiana Beachy is another young skipper who the Jumbos will look to in a greater role for the 2025-26 season. They are joined by standout freshman recruit
Maddie Janzen, joining the Jumbos from Christchurch School in Virgnia, who is expected to make an immediate impact on the program. Juniors
Maria Skouloudi, who is returning from a semester off due to injury, and
Greta Traver, who is studying abroad this fall, will also be part of the team's depth at skipper.
Senior
Lilly Ladd and junior
Eloise Goedkoop both return as experienced starting crews on the women's team. Senior co-captain
Lilah Parker is another Jumbo who was a fall contributor last season and returns after spending the spring semester abroad. Sophomore
Amelia Traver took on a larger role as her first season progressed last year and is expected to remain a key contributor. Klein begins the season competing for the women's team at the first event and is expected to play an active role on either the women's or coed roster this year. Similar to the coed team, any number of crews who have played active roles at the B-level events may step into more active starting roles as the year progresses.
In addition to a busy fleet race season that includes the fall Atlantic Coast Championships and plays a major part in selecting teams for the spring national championships, the fall season also features the single-handed and match racing championships. Skouloudi, who finished 10th in the NEISA Women's Singlehanded Championships last year, will be returning to compete for a selection to the national championship later this year in Virginia. On the coed side, Owen, Bischoff, and Macauley, as well as sophomore
Brayden Benesch are all experienced singlehanded sailors who will compete in the conference championship later this month for a chance at selection to the national championship later this year. For the match race team, Doyle, a team co-captain, is the sole returner from the 2024 team. He is joined by standout match racer and freshman recruit
Pearse Dowd as well as Goedkoop and Keeves. Although this will be the first time this group competes together for Tufts, they have all previously raced both together and separately in competitive youth and adult level match race events.
The Jumbos start the new year this weekend with the co-ed team at Yale's Harry Anderson Trophy and the women's team at the Toni Deutsch Trophy hosted by MIT.
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