ST. PETERSBURG, FL (May 20, 2026) – The Tufts University coed sailing team narrowly missed qualifying for the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Open Fleet Race National Championship finals on Wednesday. Needing to place in the top nine at the Western Semifinals to advance, Tufts finished 11th.
Seven races were held overall for A division and B division at the two-day Semifinal, with three in A's and five in B's on Wednesday. Tufts finished with totals of 64 in A's and a 74 in B's for a 138 team score.
Tufts was just four points out of ninth place, where Jacksonville finished with a 134 score to be the ninth and final team to qualify for the final. A disqualification in the fifth B division race was costly to the Jumbos.
Tufts ended up ninth in A division with senior skipper
Ben Mueller and sophomore crew
Kate Castleberry. They had finishes of ninth, 12th and sixth on Wednesday.
B division had sophomore
Oliver Keeves skippering with junior
Sean Beaver as crew in four of Wednesday's five races. Freshman
Pearse Dowd skippered with junior crew
Cody Lamoreux in the final race of the day. Keeves and Beaver won the second start of the day right before the DQ. They were also seventh and 12th. Dowd and Lamoreux were 16th in their lone race.
Brown University won the Western Semifinal with a 14-26-40 scoring line, well ahead of second-place Stanford (73). Georgetown, Yale, Charleston, Bowdoin, Fordham, Penn and Jacksonville also advanced to the final, which starts tomorrow.
This ended the Tufts University coed sailing season for 2025-26.
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