Sailing at the top colleges

Varsity SportsNCAA Division 1NCAA Division 3NCAA Sports
Written By Donna Meyer

Sailing is a varsity level sport offered for men at 11 of the highly selective colleges and for women at 12 of the highly selective colleges. 9 of the colleges with sailing teams belong in Division 1 and only 3 of them belong in Division 3. Between them, they have 290 men and 301 women, averaging 26 men sailors and 25 women sailors per college.

Sailing is generally a co-ed sport with mixed gender crews, though colleges also offer single gender crews.

Though offered by only a small number of highly selective colleges, sailing still offers reasonably good opportunity for athlete recruitment given the size of the crews and the number of boats each of the colleges send out to competitions. Colleges typically seek athletes with sailing experience in the 420, Laser and high school sailing, though coaches also look for athletes with higher level experience as crew.

College sailing generally involves 7 disciplines :

● Coed Fleet Racing

● Women’s Fleet Racing

● Coed Team Racing

● Women’s Team Racing (2022)

● Men’s Singlehanded

● Women’s Singlehanded

● Match Racing Fowle Trophy

● Aggregate performance in all seven disciplines.

Read:

Sailing ICSA Rules and Calendar for Athlete Recruitment

How do top colleges in Division 1 select their athlete recruits?

Athlete Recruitment to a Top NCAA Division 3 College

Watch out for:

How to get athlete recruited to a sailing team

Sailing profiles at the highly selective colleges

List of Highly Selective Colleges with Sailing Teams

Sailing at the Highly Selective Colleges
DivisionMen'sWomen's
Boston CollegeIYesYes
Bowdoin CollegeIIIYesYes
Brown UniversityIYesYes
Cornell UniversityINoYes
Dartmouth CollegeIYesYes
Georgetown UniversityIYesYes
Harvard UniversityIYesYes
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyIIIYesYes
Stanford UniversityIYesYes
Tufts UniversityIIIYesYes
Tulane UniversityIYesYes
Yale UniversityIYesYes
Total Athletes290301
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Donna Meyer

Donna is the founder of X Factor Admissions and the popular blog Fencing Parents , the single most important reference source for college bound fencers interested in athlete recruitment. In preparation of her sons’ applications to college, she spent years learning the intricacies of college admissions, consulted with a variety of admissions experts, and talked to admissions officers, NCAA coaches and many parents. She is a firm believer in data, and she uses it extensively to gain insight into the college admissions process. She sees that there is method in the madness.

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