2025-26 Sailing Roster

Stephan Baker

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Miami, Flo.
  • High School Ransom Everglades School
  • Opendorse stephan-baker

Biography

2024-25:

  • Competed at seven events in the Fall
  • Competed at eight events in the Spring
  • ICSA Open Skipper All-American
  • NEISA First Team Open Skipper

2023-24:

  • Competed at three events in the Fall, winning the Hatch Brown Trophy and The Moody
  • Competed at 10 events in the spring
  • Won the Thompson Trophy, Marchiando Trophy, and NEISA Open Team Race Championship
  • Served as a reserve member at the Open Dinghy National Championship
  • ICSA All-America Honorable Mention

2022-23:

  • Competed at the Single Handed Nationals Qualifier
  • Took first place in the A Division at the Hoyt Trophy
  • Took first place in the St. Mary's Team Race 
  • Named NEISA Open Sailor of the Week after helping secure the St Mary’s team race win
  • Took third at the ICSA Open Team Race National Championship
  • First Team All-NEISA
  • All American Honorable Mention 

Highlights from before Yale: 

  • 3 x Optimist North American Champion 2016, 2017, 2018
  • 3 x Optimist National Champion 2016, 2017, 2018
  • 2 x Optimist Team Trials Champion 2017, 2018
  • 35th Lake Garda Optimist Meeting Champion 2017 (largest single class sailing regatta)
  • 4th @ Optimist World Championship 2017
  • 2nd @ Optimist World Championship 2018
  • 2nd @ 29er World Championship 2019
  • ISSA National Keelboat Champion 2019
  • 49er FX North American Champion 2021
  • SAISA Singlehanded Champion 2021

Hobbies: Swimming, golf, skiing, kitesurfing

Favorite thing about Yale: The campus and people!

Favorite thing about the Yale sailing team: How nice and helpful everyone on the team is

Fun fact: Has a Brazilian passport

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23First Year

  • 2023-24Sophomore

  • 2024-25Junior

  • 2025-26Senior