Tufts Jumbos sailing
The Tufts University Sailing Team represents Tufts University in the intercollegiate sport of sailing. They are members of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association, the governing body for collegiate sailing, and compete at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association.
Led by head coach Johnny Norfleet since 2023, who took the reins from Ken Legler after an illustrious 43-year career at Tufts, the team is one of the most successful in the history of college sailing.
National championships
The team holds 28 National Championships:- Dinghy Championships : 1976, 1980, 1981, 1997, 2001
- Women's Dinghy National Championships : 1984, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003
- Team Racing National Championships : 1976, 1984, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
- Men's Single-handed National Championships : 1975, 1976, 1980, 1993, 1995
- Women's Single-handed National Championships : 1995, 1996, 1997
- Match Race (previously Sloop) National Championships : 2013
Sailors
66 men and 25 women were All-Americans.Team members have received the ICSA College Sailor of the Year award 4 times:
- Roger Altreuter in 1975
- R. Stuart Johnstone in 1980
- Paul Dickey in 1981
- Senet Bischoff in 1996
- Kaitlin Storck in 2008
Olympians
Carlos Echeverria in 1956; Peter Commette in 1976; Magnus Grävare in 1984; Mark Mendelblatt in 2004, 2008 and 2012; Jen Provan in 2004 and 2008; Tyler Paige in 2021; are Olympic sailors from Tufts.World champions
- Dave Curtis in 1976, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1992, 1967, 1981 and 1984
- Elizabeth Gelenitis "Betsy" Allison in 1983, 1987, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003 and 2023
- Bruce Burton in 1986, 1987
- Scott Kyle in 1986, 1990
- Peter Comette in 1974
- Nick Trotman in 1998 and 1998
- Tomas Hornos in 2007
- Brett Davis, Josh Adams and Victoria Wadsworth in 1998
- Graeme Woodworth, Tim Fallon and Karen Renzulli in 2005
- Lisa Keith and Peter Levesque in 2007 and 2009
- Senet Bischoff in 2014 and 2017
- Mark Mendelblatt in 1991 and 1998
Sailing venue
The home for the Tufts University sailing program is the Bacow Sailing Pavilion, named after Lawrence Bacow and his wife, Adele Fleet Bacow. It opened in the fall of 2013 and was built on the foundation of its 60-year-old predecessor, on Medford's Upper Mystic Lake.This two-story facility is one of the nicest in college sailing, with locker rooms, kitchen, meeting rooms and a large boatshop.