St. Mary's College of Maryland Women's Sailing

Adam Werblow will be entering his 33rd season as the head coach of the St. Mary's sailing teams during the 2020-21 season. During his tenure, the team has amassed 15 national titles, while Seahawk sailors have earned over 150 individual All-America honors. A 1988 graduate of Connecticut College, Werblow was the captain of the sailing team. From 1989-1992, he was a member of the U.S. Sailing Team in the Flying Dutchman class. Werblow has been the head coach for U.S. Youth Worlds Team eight times and led the team to two gold and two silver medals in 1991, the best record ever at those world championships. In 1999, he was named the Developmental Coach of the Year by the U.S. Sailing's Olympic Sailing Committee. Werblow is married to Amy Moore and the couple resides in St. Mary's City with their two children, Meredith and Michael, and their labrador, Fluke.

Bradley Adam '18 returned to St. Mary's College in August 2023 to join the Seahawks sailing coaching staff as the assistant varsity coach. Additionally, Adam will teach introductory sailing classes to the campus community and assist in Waterfront management. The East Greenwich, R.I., native came back to the Waterfront after spending five years (2018-2022) as the head varsity sailing coach at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. He guided the Shoremen and Shorewomen to nine Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA) Open Conference Championship appearances. Adam also redeveloped the Washington College women's sailing program. In his first season (2018-19) as head coach, the Shoremen and Shorewomen led the team to their first War Memorial appearance in three years and their first trip to the America Trophy in two years. Adam was a standout collegiate sailor at St. Mary’s College, finishing off his impressive career by skippering the Seahawks to second place in B Division at the 2018 Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA)/Gill Coed National Championship as a senior. That performance came on the heels of him skippering St. Mary’s to first place in B Division at the ICSA/Gill Coed Western Semifinal, boosting the Seahawks into the national championships with an eighth-place overall finish. Adam also skippered the Seahawks to second place in B Division at the America Trophy (the MAISA Spring Coed Championships) as St. Mary’s finished second overall in the conference. During his collegiate career, he turned in over a dozen top-five divisional finishes. A certified US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 3 Coach, Adam spent this summer serving as the assistant program director at Miles River Yacht Club in St. Michaels, Md. In that position, he was responsible for all aspects of daily functioning of the program, planned all home and away regattas, and oversaw a staff of 15. His coaching experience also includes time as the Optimist Race Coach at Annapolis (Md.) Yacht Club, the Head 420 Race Coach at Beverly Yacht Club in Marion, Mass., and as the Optimist/C420 Coach at Pleon Yacht Club in Marblehead, Mass.   Adam began sailing at a young age and developed into one of the nation’s top youth sailors. He won the 2012 C420 North American Championship and was named a 2012 Jobson Youth All-Star.   During the summers, he works as a private coach for high-level youth sailing in the Optimist and Club 420 classes.   PERSONAL B.A. in Economics - St. Mary's College of Maryland (2018) B.A. in Public Policy Studies - St. Mary’s College of Maryland (2018) Updated: August 3, 2023

Bill Ward joined St. Mary’s College sailing in the fall of 2006. In 20-plus years of collegiate coaching, Ward has coached nine national championship teams and amassed 31 podium (Top 3) finishes at national championship regattas. At team race nationals, his teams have finished in the Top 3 eight times, winning it all with the Seahawks in 2007 and 2010 and with Georgetown University in 2001 (3 first-place finishes; 4 second-place finishes; 1 third-place finish). In 2016, Ward was named the S1D/ Henri Lloyd Coach of the Year by the readers of sail1design.com. In 2013, Ward coached The American Youth Sailing Force in the inaugural Red Bull Youth America’s Cup sailed in AC 45 catamarans on San Francisco Bay. ‘The Force’ finished in fifth place in the 10-team field. In 2008, Ward was named the U.S. Olympic Committee National Coach of the Year for Sailing by the U.S. Olympic Sailing Committee. That same year, he had the honor of coaching Team USA at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (laser). Ward was also on the coaching staff of the U.S. Sailing Team for the 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (laser, radial, sunfish) and the 2011 ISAF World Championships in Perth, Australia (women’s match racing). He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1996, where Ward was a two-time Honorable Mention Coed All-America in 1994 and 1995. A team captain, he led Georgetown to the program’s first-ever appearances at the ICSA Dinghy and Sloop National Championships . Ward lives in Saint Inigoes with his wife, Kelly, and their son, Liam. Updated: October 6, 2022