Mike Marshall is a junior at
Connecticut College and the 420 and Laser Racing Coach. This is his third
summer coaching at CYC. He learned to sail at CYC in Optimists when he was 8
years old and began racing the following season. At age 12, he competed in the
Opti fleet-racing and team-racing Nationals and qualified for the U.S. National
Team trials. The next summer he began skippering Lasers, 420s, and J/22s, all
of which he still races today. In J/22s he has won the CYC Fleet 12 summer
series four times. In Lasers, he won the New England Junior Single-Handed
Championship twice and competed twice in the National Junior Single-Handed
Championship. At Connecticut College he is currently co-captain of the varsity
sailing team. He skippers in single-handed, double-handed, and triple-handed
regattas, which has included winning the inter-collegiate New England Sloop
Championship and competing in the ICSA National Sloop Championship.