College Sailing: Being the Best Club Team

Somewhere out in the middle of Eastchester Bay, nestled between City Island and the mainland Bronx of New York, the Fordham sailing team was doing a speed drill when, in the distance, the traffic began to clot on the Throgs Neck Bridge. As the string of brake lights grew longer, the Fordham coach, Johnny Norfleet, could tell it was getting late.

Most of his sailors had evening classes, and even after they reached the team’s home port, on the southernmost tip of City Island, in the Bronx, they still faced a good 25-minute drive in a passenger van back to campus. So Norfleet signaled an early end to practice. They would meet again as a team for calisthenics at 7 the next morning. – Full report