Jumbos Start at Women's Fleet Race National Championship on Friday
MEDFORD, MA (May 12, 2026) - The Tufts University women's sailing team will cap an excellent 2025-26 season with their appearance at the ICSA Women's Fleet Race National Championship starting on Friday in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Championship Details
2026 ICSA Women's Fleet Race National Championship
Dates: Friday-Monday, May 15-18, 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 15-16), teams will compete for one of the top nine places in each semifinal. The top nine teams move to the finals (May 17-18). Sailing will begin each day at 9:30 AM.
Tufts will compete against the following 17 teams in the Eastern Semifinal - Boston College Eagles, Charleston Cougars, Columbia Lions, Connecticut College Camels, Dartmouth Big Green, Fordham Rams, Harvard Crimson, William Smith Statesmen, Jacksonville Fins, North Carolina State Wolfpack, Old Dominion Monarchs, Roger Williams Hawks, St. Mary's Seahawks, Stanford Cardinal, Texas A&M Aggies, Rhode Island Rams and Vermont Catamounts.
Tufts earned an at-large berth into the 2026 ICSA Women's Fleet Race National Championship. The Jumbos are one of 14 teams from the deep New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) to earn national berths. Tufts placed seventh at the NEISA Fleet Race Championship this spring, the team's best result against a full field of teams at the region's fleet race championship since 2013.
Making the trip to Nationals for the Jumbos will be sophomore
Kiana Beachy, first-year
Maddie Janzen, senior
Ella Hubbard and sophomore
Sophia Hubbard as skippers, and sophomore
Kate Castleberry, junior
Eloise Goedkoop, senior
Lilly Ladd, sophomore
Dory Russell and sophomore
Amelia Traver as crews. Goedkoop, Janzen and Ladd were recently announced as All-NEISA second team honorees for the 2025-26 season, while Castleberry received an All-NEISA second team award for her work with the Tufts coed team.
The Jumbos advanced out of the semifinals last year and placed 18th overall at the ICSA Fleet Race Finals. Beachy, Goedkoop,
Sophia Hubbard and Ladd were part of that team. Ella Hubbad competed nationally for the Jumbos in 2023 and 2024, while Ladd also crewed for the 2023 national team.
Tufts is coming off a fifth-place finish at the 2026 ICSA Team Racing Nationals in late April that was the program's best finish at a national championship regatta in 16 years, since the 2010 squad was fourth at the National Fleet Race Championship. Tufts' three combinations at the national team race this spring were
Ella Hubbard-Castleberry, Janzen-Ladd and
Sophia Hubbard-Goedkoop.
Historically, Tufts has won eight Women's Fleet Race National Championships (1984, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003).
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