Coed Sailing Earns At-Large Berth Into ICSA Fleet Race Nationals

MEDFORD, MA (April 28, 2026) - The Tufts University Coed Sailing Team received an at-large selection into the 2026 Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Open Fleet Race National Championship on Tuesday evening. The ICSA Open Championship will be hosted by the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg May 19-22.

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, including Tufts, 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 2025-26 season.

Tufts will be one of 14 schools representing the strong New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association at the national championship. The Jumbos had an eighth-place finish at the 2026 New England Fleet Race Championship on April 18-19 in Rhode Island.

The Jumbo team has been awarded the #14 seed at the Open Fleet Race Nationals in May.

A seventh at the ICSA Open Fleet Race Championship Finals last May was the Tufts team's best finish since 2014. A top 10 national finisher three times in the last four years at this event, Tufts had also been eighth in 2023 and ninth in 2022. Historically, Tufts has won five Open Fleet Race Championships (1976, 1980, 1981, 1997, 2001).

Tufts' starting lineup for the national championship has not been officially announced yet. For the New England Fleet Race Championship, senior skipper Ben Mueller with sophomore crew Kate Castleberry and freshman skipper Pearse Dowd with junior crew Sean Beaver handled day one. Junior skipper Courtland Doyle with junior crew Cody Lamoreux, and junior skipper Gus Macaulay with senior crew Lilah Parker were the Tufts team on day two.

See the ICSA announcement of Open Fleet Race Championship selections HERE.