Texas Longhorns sailing
The University of Texas Sailing Team is a nationally competitive club sports team of the University of Texas at Austin. Their goal is to expand the love and knowledge of competitive sailing throughout the university community and their conference at large. The club encourages participation from all undergraduate students at UT, regardless of experience although the club also recruits students with high school sailing experience. Each fall and spring Texas Sailing fields competitive coed and women's teams in the Southeastern Intercollegiate Sailing Association district of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association, travelling around the country to race in  intercollegiate regattas. The club also hosts two or more regattas annually, as well as an annual Alumni Regatta. The team is governed by a board of student officers. National championships. Texas holds 4 National Championships Sailors. Paul Foerster competed at four Olympics Games in sailing: 1988, 1992, 2000, and 2004, winning a total of three Olympic medals. Sailing venue. The University of Texas Sailing Team sails out of the Austin Yacht Club on Lake Travis. Fleet. The fleet of the University of Texas Sailing Team's dinghies includes 18 Vanguard Flying Juniors (FJs). History. The UT Sailing Team began in  the late 1960s, probably 1968; however the actual year is the subject of some debate. It began as a club for students to go and sail at the Austin Yacht Club. Not long after its inception the team split into two distinct groups, the Sailing Club, a more casual non-competitive faction and the Sailing Team. After the split the Team moved rapidly to become a major player in college sailing.