ST. MARY'S CITY, MD (October 11, 2026) – The Tufts University coed sailing team placed a strong sixth out of 17 teams at the Atlantic Coast Championship (ACC) Round 1A regatta hosted by St. Mary's College Maryland which concluded today.
Tufts was seventh at the end of Saturday's action and moved up a spot to sixth during four races each in A and B divisions on Sunday. For 14 total races in A's and B's for the weekend, the Jumbos compiled a 201 score with 90 in A's and 111 in B's.
With the sixth-place finish, the Jumbos were comfortably within the top nine which earns the team a berth into the ACC finals coming up at Brown University October 24-25. The top nine teams from today's 1A regatta, as well as the best nine from the 1B event at Navy this weekend, will meet at the 18-team ACC finals.
Tufts finished fifth in A division for the weekend, which included four races on Sunday. The team of sophomore skipper
Crue Ziskind with senior crew
Reddin Kehrli were sixth and 11th in two Sunday races. Senior
Cody Lamoreux stepped in as crew for Ziskind in the last two Sunday races which included a win and a fifth-place finish.
In B division, sophomore crew
Pearse Dowd and first-year crew
Sophie Dart were Tufts' team in all four Sunday races. They had a fourth-place score in today's second race to help the Jumbos finish eighth in B division for the weekend.
Stanford University won the ACC 1A regatta with a 44-64-108 scoring line.
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