BURLINGTON, VT (November 1, 2026) - Tufts Coed Sailing climbed from 10th place after Saturday's action to a sixth-place finish following the second day of the Schell Trophy hosted by the University of Vermont on Sunday. The Jumbos scored 73 points over the last six races to finish with 222 points at the regatta which represents the New England fall championship.
The sixth-place result at the Schell Trophy matched Tufts' best since the Jumbos were also sixth at the regatta in 2017.
The Jumbos passed Coast Guard, MIT, Bowdoin and Dartmouth on Sunday, edging the Big Green by six points for sixth place after trailing them by 40 following Race 8. Yale won the regatta with 129 points, ahead of Brown (142) and Boston College (147).
The Tufts turnaround started in Race 11, when sophomore skipper
Pearse Dowd and senior crew
Reddin Kehrli won the A division and B added an eighth for just nine points. Tufts followed with steady finishes in Race 12, an eighth in A and a sixth in B, to reach 211 points.
Junior skipper
Oliver Keeves and first-year
Sophie Dart, back in the B boat for the last two races, won the division in Race 13. With an eighth in A, Tufts scored nine points, the best of any team in the race. Race 14 was the best of the weekend. Tufts won both divisions for a perfect two points, closing at 222.
Across Races 9-14 on Sunday, Tufts' 73 points were the fourth-best in the fleet. For the regatta, the A division totaled 132 points and the B division 90. In A, Dowd and Kehrli, and Saturday skipper
Crue Ziskind, a sophomore, were 10th for the weekend. In B, Keeves sailed with senior crew
Cody Lamoreux for the first four races on Sunday and was with Dart for the other 10 races over the weekend. Tufts was seventh in B's.
This was the final event of the fall season for the Jumbos. Their 2026-27 schedule will resume in the spring.
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