Tufts Sailing Magazine Fall 2015 Welcome to the third annual Tufts Sailing Magazine for alumni, parents, friends and students. We hope this new magazine finds you well and that you are happy to hear our news. We hope to make this magazine informative and attractive enough to keep for years. Inside you will find senior profiles (you might want to hire one of them), alumni interview, schedule, and roster. We are also updating the fund drive for 24 new Larks, to be built right here in Peabody, Massachusetts, USA! In addition to new boats we are seeking donations to increase the educational experience for our team. Combined with a generous budget from the Tufts Athletic Department, your donations will allow the team to keep up with the rising costs of travel, equipment, coaching, and risk management while supporting the biggest and busiest college dinghy team in the world. Photos will of ouse fill a spaes to add a thousad ods. Whethe ou ae a foe college sailor, parent of a college sailor, supporter, or just a friend, enjoy. Ken Legler, Tufts Sailing Coach Contents 2 Coah’s Weloe Lette 3 Fall Season Wrap-up 4 Roster 5 Student Perspectives 7 New Larks for 2016 to 2025 8 Senior Profiles 9 Spring Schedule 10 Alumni Interview with Bill L’ 11 2016 Alumni Regatta announcement Cover: Freshmen and sophomores racing the greatest college dinghies in the world for now. Below: Freshmen sailors Ashley Smith and Logan Russell race upwind on Mystic Lake Fall 2015 Wrap-up This as the fall of feshe. It’s happeed efoe; the fall of sa a feshe as did the fall of 1987 and 2010 but not quite like this. We began with a potential 30 freshmen and by the end of the season we still had eall pshed feshe sailos. The’e good too. We aot get the est i the old anymore the a a fe othe uiesities a do ith likel adit lettes from their respective athletic departments but we do get the most freshmen despite higher academic standards every year. Having graduated two great classes in a row, we relied on mostly juniors and a few talented seniors in major regattas. We struggled in comparison to past years but had a few great individual performances. Meanwhile we cleaned up at the club level with freshmen and sophomores. Ou oe’s tea sailed like eteas afte liig thei a up though the aks last ea. Just as the Mrs. Hurst Bowl was a turning point for our women last year, it was our high point this year as well finishing second behind #1 Coast Guard. Ironically the following week we just nipped Coast Guard in the last race to capture the eighth and final qualifying spot for Atlantic Coast champs. To be fair, Coast Guard was without their best skipper. The Urn oe’s ad “hell oed ee run concurrently on the Charles this year. The women also had success at Navy (5th), Yale (6th), Singlehanded Champs (7th) and Regis Bowl (4th). In club level regattas we racked up the wins in the Sacred Heart Invite, Stu Walker Cup at Middlebury, Commonwealth Invite at Mass Maritime (1st and 2nd), Ross Trophy at Courageous in R-19s (1st and 2nd), Harvard Invite, Mystic Lake Invite, J-22 Invite at Coast Guard, Protest Trophy at Bates, Peak Foliage Invite at Tufts, Southern Series at Roger Williams, and of course the Dark of Night Invite at Tufts. Back to the top, great individual performance were turned in by James Moody/Liz Fletcher/Pierre duPont/Sammy Shea in keel boats, Griffin Rolander/Emily Shanley-Roberts (filling in for injured Natalie Dazige iig B diisio at eth Schell and Scott Barbano with various crew dominating the second day of the Hap Moore team race at Coast Guad. MaClaie Kiea/Aada “oi o B at the Woe’s Atlantic Coast Champs. At Hood Jumbos ran away with both divisions of the Hood Trophy. Ou keel oat sailos had a ouple setaks. The “to Tsail Clu’s ollege ig oat egatta at Larchmont was cancelled due to a storm and a collision in the NE Match Race champs spelled doom for our match racers. That followed a pre-season of J-’s, “oas, ad “oligs, the the Haa i Colgates, the J-22 Invite, our annual Soling team race with Boston Sailing Center, the Long Island Sound IRC champs in a Farr 30, more match racing practice, and a match race clinic in Sonars at Seawanhaka. In all we competed in 65 regattas, some with multiple Tufts entries, in 13 classes (Larks, 420s, FJs, Techs, Fireflies, Lasers, Radials, Snipes, Sonars, Ynglings, Colgates, Farr 30, and Solings) and in eight states. Freshmen represented the Jumbos in 47 of those regattas. Belo: Kate “hae’, Julia Fulle’, oah Rahael “ilestei, Aada “oi’, MaClaie Kiea’ Roster 2015-2016 Seniors Juniors Caroline Atwood-captain, Killingworth, CT Caroline Ambros, Studio City, CA Pierre DuPont-captain, Tarrytown, NY Scott Barbano, Cranbury, NJ Rolfe Glover, Savannah, GA Sandy Beatty, Toronto, Ontario Casey Gowrie, Old Saybrook, CT Natalie Danziger, Portland, OR James Moody, Tiburon, CA Liz Fletcher-captain, Laguna Beach, CA Grace Olsen, Westport, CT Julia Fuller, Darien, CT Kate Shaner, Kirkland, WA Sam Gates, Mill Valley, CA Amanda Sommi, Darien, CT MaryClaire Kiernan, Hinsdale, IL Bobby McLaughlin, Westwood, MA Freshmen Griffin Rolander, Terrace Park, OH Bubakar Bah, Bronx, NY Isabelle Sennett, Mill Valley, CA Jack Bitney, Deephaven, MN Alex Tong, Seattle, WA Sarah Bunney, Mill Valley, CA Sadie Woolf, Atherton, CA Jack Duncan, Mill Valley, CA Nick Giacobbe, Stuart, FL Sophomores Emma Haley, Sea Cliff, NY Lara Dienemann, Portsmouth, NH Taylor Hart, Darien, CT Ryan Epprecht, Madison, CT Cam Holley, Manchester, MA Taylor Fasolo, Pennington, NJ Steve Honig, Forest Hills, NY Julien Guiot, Bethesda, MD Chris Keller, Riverside, CT Rachel Hanford, Pt. Washington, NY Jackson McCoy, Bainbridge Island, WA Aaron Klein, Duxbury, MA Ian Morgan, Shadyside, MD Nainoa Nathanson, Bristol, RI Kahler Newsham, Summit, NJ Tyler Paige, New York, NY Pere Puig, Key Biscayne, FL Molly Pleskus, San Diego, CA Anna Robling, Larchmont, NY Lucy Robison, Wallingford, CT Logan Russell, Marion, MA Alp Rodopman, Istanbul, Turkey Andrew Savage, Norwalk, CT Emily Shanley-Roberts, Waukegan, IL Marie-Louise Schnetz, Berg, Germany Lucy Zwigard, Skaneateles, NY Russell Shapiro, Oak Bluffs, MA Sammy Shea, San Francisco, CA Rachael Silverstein, Assistant Coach Ashley Smith, Scotch Plains, NJ Ken Legler, Head Coach Sabina Van Mell, Chicago, IL Maggie Veltri, East Dundee, IL Student Perspectives From Pere Puig, freshman from Key Biscayne, FL: For the past two years my sailing has mostly consisted of crewing the 29er skiff. Now, currently enrolled at Tufts, I am sailing collegiate dinghies. The skills needed in each discipline could not be any more different from one another, but I know that exposing myself to a new type of sailing will only make me a better overall sailor. The skiff places an emphasis in apparent-wind sailing, the ability to play modes, meticulous tuning, and long- course strategy and tactics. In the collegiate circuit, however, those who excel have strengths such as starting, aggressive boathandling, and short-course boat-on-boat tactics. Although there remains much to be learned, I could not be happier to be taking on such new challenges as a member of the Tufts Sailing Team. Below: Pere Puig crewing for MaryClaire Kiernan in a practice race From Emily Shanley-Roberts, sophomore from Waukegan, IL: I used to quit sailing once a regatta, like clockwork, after my second or third bad start, then proceed to complete the event. No, though, it’s all different. My teammates and mentors on the Tufts Sailing Team hae helped e to go as a peso ad a opetito, ad I’ poud of the sailo that I’ eoig. M high shool oah ould e pshed to hea that I’ a uh ette opetito. To teaates, faily, coaches, ad fieds: thaks fo stikig it out ith e. I look foad to a geat . eas. It’s goig to go uh too quickly. Below: Emily Shanley-Roberts, normally a dinghy crew, in a rare moment of Laser sailing Natalie Danziger, junior from Portland, OR I experienced college sailing for the first time in 2011 as a volunteer at nationals. Seeing the level of competition and the camaraderie of those teams at that regatta was all it took to convince me that college sailing was meant for me. Now as a junior, I can say without a doubt that the talent and friendship I saw there ae a itegal pat of life o. This ea patiulal, I’e had the piilege of sailig oth ith ad agaist the best that NEISA has to offer, and it has been nothing short of amazing. Belo: “ott Baao’, Cae, NJ ad Natalie Dazige’, Potlad, OR From Amanda Sommi, senior from Darien, CT M oad to ollege sailig as slightl oudaout. While o as a Juo “ailo Na Judge ’, I came to Tufts having spent the majority of my time focusing on athletic pursuits radically different from sailing. It was a fairly tough transition, trying to fit the ways I knew to be successful into a college dingy. Our uppelasse though, set a fatasti toe ad ee ole odels I’ still stiig to eulate. “ie the, I’e worn many hats and learned far more than I ever thought I would. From event planning and fund raising, to the proper bailing technique and exactly how many quarter zips one can wear under a drysuit, there have been many teachable moments. Below: Amanda Sommi leading a reach in heavy air New Larks The’e alost hee, ad e Laks ith oats, asts ad sails all ade ea.