Back
Strategy is Good, Tactics are Evil: an Evening with Coach Ken Legler
April 2, 2024
Join us in the Sailing Center for what will be a very entertaining and educational evening on how to have more fun while going faster. Ken Legler is a coach's coach. We can all learn from his wisdom, his pictures and his videos - and he makes it fun.
Details
Price: $29 including Dinner. Sign up here.
Schedule: Friday, April 5th, bar opens 5:30pm / Speaker 6pm - 9pm / Break for dinner 7:15pm
Menu: Cauliflower Crust Margarita Pizza (GF), Wild Mushroom & Spinach Pasta with Sweet Italian Sausage, Baby Romaine Caesar Salad, Assorted Cookies
More About Ken
Ken is an award-winning race officer (PRO, judge, and umpire), as well as photographer and race commentator. Ken has volunteered as a sighted guide for blind sailors, and competed at Blind Sailing World Championships in Italy and Newport.
While an undergraduate at URI, he was not only an All-American who won both dingy and team racing national championships, but he was also the team coach.
After a stint at Navy, Legler earned his first head coach job at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Kings Point) and immediately guided the Mariners to the national championship in 1979. He did the same with Tufts the next year in 1980.
In 43 years as the head coach of the Tufts University sailing program, Legler's teams won:
- Three co-ed titles
- Eight women's
- Five team racing
- Two men's single-handed
- One women's single-handed
- One match racing national championship
Plus he mentored:
- Three College Sailors of the Year
- 86 All-Americans, four of whom become Olympians
So it was no surprise when Legler himself was inducted into the Intercollegiate Sailing Association Hall of Fame in 2019.
Ken is an award-winning race officer (PRO, judge, and umpire), as well as photographer and race commentator. Ken has volunteered as a sighted guide for blind sailors, and competed at Blind Sailing World Championships in Italy and Newport.
