MEDFORD, MA (May 18, 2026) - A strong seventh-place finisher at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Open Fleet Race National Championship last year, the Tufts University coed sailing team has its sights set on another top 10 national performance when the 2026 Fleet Race Nationals start on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Championship Details
2026 ICSA Open Fleet Race National Championship
Dates: Tuesday-Friday, May 19-22, 2026
Location: St. Petersburg, FL - Tampa Bay
Live Coverage:
LIVE RESULTS
A total of 36 teams from across the country will race on Tampa Bay in the national championship regatta. The group is first split into two 18-team fleets for the Eastern and Western Semifinals. Over two days of semifinal competition (May 19-20), teams will compete for one of the top nine places in each semifinal. The top nine teams move on to the finals (May 21-22). Sailing will begin each day at 9:30 AM.
Tufts will compete in the Western Semifinal against the Boston University Terriers, Bowdoin Polar Bears, Brown Bears, Charleston Cougars, Florida State Seminoles, Fordham Rams, Georgetown Hoyas, Jacksonville Fins, North Carolina State Wolfpack, San Diego State Aztecs, Stanford Cardinal, Coast Guard Bears, Pennsylvania Quakers, Rhode Island Rams, Southern Cal Trojans, Wisconsin Badgers and Yale Bulldogs.
The Jumbos earned an at-large berth into the 2026 ICSA Open Fleet Race National Championship. Tufts will be one of 14 schools representing the strong New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) 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.
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A team of nine Jumbos will be in Florida for the national competition. Junior
Wyatt Bischoff, freshman
Pearse Dowd, sophomore
Oliver Keeves, junior
Gus Macaulay and senior
Ben Mueller are the skippers, junior
Sean Beaver, sophomore
Kate Castleberry and junior
Cody Lamoreux are crews and junior
Courtland Doyle handles both roles.
Mueller will skipper at the ICSA Fleet Race National Championship for the fourth consecutive year. Castleberry, Doyle and Lamoreux all crewed for Mueller at last year's event. Castleberry recently received an All-NEISA second team award as crew for the Tufts coed team. Mueller has received two consecutive NEISA Sportsperson of the Year awards.
Tufts' seventh-place finish at the 2025 Fleet Race Nationals was its best in 11 years. In 2024, the Jumos were a strong fifth in the semifinals and then placed 12th in the finals. The team was eighth in 2023 and ninth in 2022 at the event. Historically, Tufts has won five Open Fleet Race Championships (1976, 1980, 1981, 1997, 2001).
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