Yale Athletics

When one reflects on the 2025 senior class of the coed sailing team, one word comes to mind: dominance. 

The class has contributed to multiple national titles, beginning with Jack Egan’s ’25 standout performance to help the Bulldogs clinch the Team Race National Championship in May 2022. On the heels of Egan’s stellar showing, the Bulldogs captured their second-straight Intercollegiate Sailing Association — ICSA — Match Race National Championship in November that year.

The eleven graduating sailors have reached the pinnacle of success as individuals as well. Carmen Cowles ’25 competed in the U.S. Sailing Olympic Trials in the winter of 2024, and four members of the class were recognized as ICSA All-Americans last May.

The class of 2025 is leaving a lasting mark on the classes below them. “This senior class is a unit of extremely talented sailors on the water but also a close knit group of eleven students,” sophomore Elle Sykes ’27 wrote to the News. “I personally have been fortunate enough to sail with many of them and I attribute much of my personal growth to their mentorship.”