MIT Engineers sailing
# MIT Engineers sailing

The MIT sailing team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The team is a member of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association, which is part of the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association.

## National championships

MIT has won 14 national championships:

* 12 Dinghy National Championships (1937, 1938, 1939, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1961 and 2018)
* 2 Women’s Dinghy National Championships (1971 and 1973)

## Sailors

Alan Sun in 2000 and JM Modisette in 2005 won the Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award.

Horacio García in 1960; John Marvin in 1956; and Paula Lewin in 1992, 1996 and 2004, are olympic sailors from the MIT.

## Fleet

MIT developed their own dinghy in 1935, the Tech Dinghy, to be used by the team.

## Venue

The home venue of the team is the Walter C. Wood Sailing Pavilion, located on the Charles River. The building was completed in 1935.

