Georgetown University Women's Sailing

Michael J. Callahan was named the head coach of the Georgetown University sailing team, commonly referred to as GUST, in August 1998 following one year as an assistant coach (1997-98). Callahan is a three-time recipient of the Outstanding Coaching Achievement Award (1999-2000, 2000-01, 2005-06), an honor presented by Georgetown Athletics to the most outstanding coach from the academic year. To date, Callahan has received the recognition more times than any other GU coach.   Callahan was named the US Sailing and USOC National Sailing Coach of the Year in 2012 and the Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA) Conference Coach of the Year in 2015 and 2020.   Since Callahan began his career during the 1998-99 season, Georgetown sailing has received more than 100 All-America honors and the program has won 15 national championships. In the 2020 season the Hoyas had a 40-0 record and were ranked No. 1 in the country before the season was canceled due to COVID-19. Included in this success are top finishes in recent years. In the 2018-19 season, the Hoyas finished second at the ICSA Team Race National Championship and the ICSA Match Race National Championship. The previous season, GU Hoyas took third at the ICSA Fleet Racing Championships and fourth at the Team Race Championships. The 2016-2017 campaign saw the Hoyas win the ICSA Match Racing National Championship and finishing third at the ICSA Team Racing Championships. In 2016,  the Hoyas won the ICSA Fleet Racing National Championship and finished second at the Team Racing National Championship. During the 2014-15 season, the Hoyas won seven of the eight MAISA Conference championships, an unprecedented feat in the conference's history, a league that started in 1941. Following the season, Nevin Snow was the recipient of the Everett B. Morris Trophy that goes to the College Sailor of the Year, the sixth time in program history a Hoya has received the honor. During the fall season, the quartet of Snow, Alex Post, AJ Reiter and Katia DaSilva won the 2014 ICSA Match Race National Championship, successfully defending their title from the previous season.   The 2013-14 year saw Greg Martinez, a sophomore, sail to victory at the ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship in addition to the team of Snow, Post, Reiter and DaSilva win the ICSA Match Race National Championship, the first of back-to-back titles for the quartet. With the win, the foursome earned the chance to represent the United States at the 2014 World University Games in Italy, bringing home gold. The Blue & Gray ended the 2013-14 season with a second-place finish at the ICSA Coed National Championships, a repeat performance from the 2012-13 season. In 2011-12, the Hoyas had one of their best years on record with both the coed and the women's teams ending the regular season ranked No. 1 in the country.   Georgetown won the 2012 ICSA Coed National Championship in Austin, Texas. Chris Barnard was named the Coed Sailor of the Year while Sydney Bolger was named the Quantum Women's Sailor of the Year, the appropriate end to the season as she and crew Rebecca Evans went undefeated in the women's A division. The Hoyas again finished among the top five at the national championships, held in Oregon in 2010-11. At the ICSA Women's National Championship, Bolger and Evans won the A division. At the ICSA Coed National Championships, Charlie Buckingham and Ashley Phillips won the A division for the second-consecutive year. For his efforts, Buckingham was the recipient of the 2011 Everett B. Morris Trophy that goes to the ICSA College Sailor of the Year, the second time in his career he had earned the recognition. Buckingham won the 2010 ICSA Singlehanded National Championship in the fall.   The Blue & Gray had a tremendous year during the 2008-09 season when they finished third at the ICSA Team Race National Championship and third at the ICSA Coed Fleet Race National Championship. Buckingham was named the ICSA College Sailor of the Year, the third time in four years a Hoya garnered the award. Following success from the previous year, the Hoyas ranked in the top five in the nation in both the coed and women's polls in the fall of the 2007-08 season, another banner year for the Hoyas. GU captured its first ICSA Coed Fleet Racing National Championship. Buckingham teamed up with Alex Taylor to win the B division while Chris Behm and crews Carly Chamberlain and Marco Teixidor finished fourth in the A division. Following the season, Chris Behm was named the College Sailor of the Year.   In the fall of 2006, Georgetown won the MAISA Conference Coed Championship, winning the War Memorial Regatta for the first time in program history while the women's team won the MAISA Fall Championship, sweeping both the A and B divisions. Following the fall, the coed team was tabbed No. 3 nationally and the women's team was ranked fifth. In the spring, the Hoyas won the America Trophy, MAISA's Fleet Racing Championship, for the first time in program history and finished among the top 10 at both the coed and women's national championships.   The 2005-06 season was the most storied and successful in program history as the Hoyas were the recipients of the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy, an honor that goes to the best overall collegiate team. This was a first in program history. The Hoyas won the ICSA National Team Race Championship, ICSA Singlehanded National Championship and placed second at the ICSA Women's National Championship, ICSA Coed Dinghy Championships and the ICSA Sloop National Championship. The second-place finish from the women's team at nationals was their best performance to date. Additionally, Andrew Campbell was named the College Sailor of the Year and five Hoyas were named All-Americans with an additional student-athlete picking up honorable mention honors. Campbell was a standout in singlehanded sailing on the Hilltop, winning three singlehanded national titles in four years (2002, 2004, 2005) while never losing a single laser regatta in his four years. Campbell graduated as a four-time All-American in 2006 and would go on to represent the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.   The 2000-01 season saw Callahan lead the coed team to its first ICSA Team Race National Championships. The Hoyas finished the season with an impressive overall record of 18-3 to win the championship. Following the 2001 season, the Hoyas had earned more All-America accolades in Callahan's first three years at the helm than they had in the previous 61 years combined. Callahan inherited a Georgetown team on the rise and has taken the Hoyas to the pinnacle of collegiate sailing. The first success on a national scale came in 1999 when Liz Bent and Leah Williams won the A division at the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Women's National Championships. This marked the first time in program history that the women won the Madeleine Trophy, named after former Hoya sailor and coach, Madeleine Disario '68.   Callahan, a native of Falmouth, Massachusetts, has served as Commissioner of the MAISA Conference and is on the ICSA Executive Committee. Callahan also served as the sailing school director at the New Bedford Yacht Club in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, from 2000-2019, overseeing a junior sailing school with close to 300 sailors.   Callahan is a 1997 graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he majored in European history and diplomacy. In 2012 he received his master's degree from Georgetown in liberal studies and wrote his thesis on Georgetown Athletics titled, "Reflection on Georgetown University Athletics: Past, Present, and a Proposal for the Future." He sailed for Georgetown as an undergraduate and captained the team his senior year. In the spring of 1996, Callahan was awarded the prestigious Commodore's Cup, given annually to the sailor who has shown the most dedication to the team.   Callahan is a 1993 graduate of Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts, where he was a four-year member and captain of the Tabor sailing team. While at Tabor, he was part of the two-time High School National Team Race Championship teams and also won the B division at the Mallory Trophy his junior year.   Callahan served as the commissioner of the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association from 2010-22 and is also the chair of the ICSA Championships and Competition Committee. He was inducted into the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Hall of Fame in 2020 and received the Graham Hall Award for Outstanding Service by a Professional the same year. He resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife Amy Brundage and two daughters Joanie and Annette.     GEORGETOWN SAILING ACCOMPLISHMENTS UNDER HEAD COACH MICHAEL CALLAHAN Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship 1st: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2021 2nd: 2011 4th: 2022 5th: 2014   ICSA Women's Singlehanded National Championship 1st: 2015 3rd: 2021 5th: 2014, 2018   ICSA Match Race National Championship 1st: 2013, 2014, 2016 2nd: 1998, 2005, 2019 3rd: 2012, 2015   ICSA Women's National Championship 2nd: 2006 3rd: 2005 4th: 2012 5th: 1999   ICSA Team Race National Championship 1st: 2001, 2006 2nd: 2000, 2008, 2016, 2019 3rd: 2002, 2009, 2010, 2017, 2022 4th: 2011, 2013, 2018 5th: 2005, 2015   ICSA Coed Fleet Racing National Championship 1st: 2008, 2012, 2016 2nd: 2004, 2006, 2013, 2014 3rd: 2009, 2018 4th: 2011, 2023 5th: 2001, 2010   Everett B. Morris Award: College Sailor of the Year 2006: Andrew Campbell 2008: Christopher Behm 2009: Charlie Buckingham 2011: Charlie Buckingham 2012: Chris Barnard 2015: Nevin Snow 2016: Nevin Snow   Quantum Women's College Sailor of the Year 2012: Sydney Bolger   Madeleine Trophy: Winner of A division at Women's National Championships 1999: Liz Bent / Leah Williams 2011: Sydney Bolger / Rebecca Evans 2012: Sydney Bolger / Rebecca Evans   Robert Allan Jr Award: Winner of B division at Coed National Championships 2008: Charlie Buckingham / Alex Taylor   Robert Allan Sr. Award: Winner of A division at Coed National Championships 2006: Andrew Campbell / Caroline LaMotte 2010: Charlie Buckingham / Alex Taylor, Leah Volk, Sydney Bolger 2011: Charlie Buckingham / Ashley Phillips 2012: Christopher Barnard / Hilary Kenyon   Mid-Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA) Conference Championships Since 2008 America Trophy: Coed Spring Fleet Racing (9 titles) 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2024, 2025   Prosser Trophy: Team Racing (9 titles) 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024   MAISA Spring Women's (4 titles) 2012, 2014, 2015, 2025   MAISA Men's Singlehanded Championship (8 titles) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2024   MAISA Women's Singlehanded Championship (1 title) 2015   MAISA Match Race (3 titles) 2013, 2015, 2024   War Memorial: Coed Fall Fleet Race (7 titles) 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2024   Other Awards Robert A Duffy Scholar Athlete 2007: Caroline LaMotte   World University Games Gold Medal 2005: Singlehanded (Turkey): Andrew Campbell 2014: Match Racing (Italy): Nevin Snow, Alex Post, AJ Reiter, Katia DaSilva   Georgetown University Outstanding Coaching Achievement Award 2000: Michael J. Callahan 2001: Michael J. Callahan 2006: Michael J. Callahan   US Sailing and USOC National Sailing Coach of the Year 2012: Michael J. Callahan   MAISA Conference Coach of the Year 2015: Michael J. Callahan 2020: Michael J. Callahan   Graham Hall Award for Outstanding Service by a Professional 2020: Michael J. Callahan   Inducted into ICSA Hall of Fame: 2020  

Scott Allan, a 1995 Georgetown graduate, returned to the Hilltop in early 2026 as the assistant sailing coach. Allan will assist longtime head coach and former Georgetown teammate, Michael Callahan, with a range of issues, including boat handling and boat speed development, sail trim adjustments and match racing tactics.  He will also work closely with Georgetown sailors on their academic progress and post-collegiate career choices.  While at Georgetown as an undergrad, Allan captained the 1995 team and was part of the first Hoya teams to qualify for the fleet racing and sloop national championship regattas.   An Annapolis native, Allan grew up sailing opti’s, lasers, snipes, J-22’s, 420’s and FJ’s out of the Severn Sailing Association and the Newport Harbor Yacht Club as well as serving as a longtime bowman for Hall-of-Fame sailor Stuart Walker.  He won A Division at the 1990 Mid-Atlantic High School Sailing Championships and worked summers at UK Sailmakers. Allan spent 1995-1996 coaching several Annapolis-area high school sailing teams through the Annapolis Yacht Club’s scholastic racing program, guiding one team to a fifth-place A Division Mallory Trophy finish.   Following his first coaching stint, Allan attended Duke University’s School of Law before clerking at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, working for three years at a Wall Street law firm and serving as Special Counsel to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke.  He then spent 20 years in government as one of the country’s longest serving counterterrorism policy officials.  This included being a Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, Senior Counterterrorism Strategist for the State Department and a White House Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council staff, where he focused on terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan and Pakistan and addressing al-Qa’ida’s Senior Leadership.  He continues to lecture on terrorism threats and counterterrorism strategies to students, professionals, and foreign officials.   Allan’s family has a long connection to college sailing.  The A and B Division Intercollegiate National Championship trophies are named after his great-grandfather and grandfather, respectively.  His uncle was a member of college sailing’s first All-America team, and his aunt was one of the first women inducted into the College Sailing Hall of Fame.  His father was the first College Sailor of the Year before becoming the Naval Academy’s head dinghy coach and the 1972 Olympic helmsman in the Flying Dutchman class. In his free time, Allan is an active competitor in the Harbor 20 racing class and enjoys saltwater fly fishing, watching Georgetown basketball and skiing with his wife and two teenagers.