Thomas Barrows ’10, a two-time Olympic sailor who served as coach for Team USA at the 2020 Tokyo Games, began coaching at Yale in August 2021.
The former College Sailor of the Year and the only person in Yale Sailing to earn the Mallory Award, given to the school’s top male athlete, has a decorated young career that began with four All-America selections. He won a single-handed national title at Yale and was the 2010 winner of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association's Senior Trophy.
Barrows, who was a Laser North American Champion, competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the U.S. Virgin Islands as an undergraduate before representing the United States at Rio in 2016. At the Tokyo Games, he coached Stu McNay ’05 in the 470 Olympic racing to a ninth-place overall finish.
The former Yale star is a two-time U.S. Team Racing Champion (Hitman Trophy) who won the Wilson Trophy at the UK team race championship.
Barrows, a two-time captain who was a sociology and Chinese Studies major at Yale, grew up in St. Thomas.
