title: MIT Engineers sailing
text: # 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.
  
  