Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Sailing relies on walk-ons

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Even though the Yale coed sailing team is ranked No. 1 in the country, most of its members were not recruited to sail for the Bulldogs.
Unlike most Yale varsity sports that maintain a full roster of recruits year after year, the coed sailing team has historically relied heavily on walk-on team members in order to train and compete. Walk-ons account for about two-thirds of the Yale coed sailing program, skipper Joe Morris ’12 said.
“I love how our team needs both the recruited members and walk-ons to work properly,” crew Blair Belling ’11 said.
The team has two to three...

#1 By nice spelling 11:45p.m. on November 4, 2009

I ges Frances is so "college" that she doesn't even know how to spell college. "pre-collage" Or does that mean she is before college? Work on your editing, YDN.

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