NEW LONDON, CT (April 19. 2026) – In the final regional event of the 2025-26 season, the Tufts University women's sailing team placed seventh among 15 teams at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Women's Fleet Race Championship which concluded on Sunday.
It's the Jumbos best result against a full field of teams at the New England Fleet Race Championship since 2013, when the team was fifth. Tufts was also fifth in an eight-team event in 2021 when the Covid pandemic limited the amount of participating teams.
Today, after eight races were finished in A and B divisions on Saturday, high winds limited racing to four starts in each division on Sunday. For the 12 total races, the Jumbos had a 121 score in A division and a 64 in B's for a 185 final total. They won a seventh-place tie-breaker against MIT, with a larger number of higher-place finishes.
Tufts placed fifth in B division for the two days, with sophomore
Kiana Beachy skippering with classmate
Patricia Winssinger as crew on Sunday. They had four top-10 finishes today, with a best of fifth place in the team's first race of the day.
The Jumbos placed ninth in A division for the Championship. Sunday's pairing was senior skipper
Ella Hubbard with sophomore crew
Dory Russell, whose best race was Sunday's first start where they placed sixth.
Yale University came from second place on Saturday to win the Reed Trophy as New England champions on Sunday with a final scoring line of 53-46-99. Brown finished as the runner-up. Both of those schools earn at-large berths into the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Fleet Race Nationals to be held in St. Petersburg, Florida in mid-May.
With 36 total teams earning berths into the Fleet Race Nationals, Tufts looks to be in a good spot to receive an at-large berth when the full field is announced on Tuesday.
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