Stan Schreyer joined the Harvard Sailing coaching staff as an assistant coach in the Fall of 2024. The 2025-26 campaign marks Schreyer's second with the Crimson.
In his first season, Schreyer helped Harvard capture the 2025 ICSA Open Team Racing national championship, which represented the program's second in three years and its third national crown in as many seasons (2023 Open Team, 2024 Open Fleet, 2025 Open Team). Schreyer also coached Justin Callahan to ICSA College Sailor-of-the-Year accolades, while five other athletes garnered All-America honors.
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An experienced coach and leader, Schreyer arrived at Harvard having coached at several different levels, including serving as head coach at Boston University from 2013-19. The two-time Collegiate Sailing New England Coach of the Year (2016, 2017) has also been a coach for the Danish Olympic Sailing Team (2009-10) and the US Paralympic Sailing Team (2006-07).
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A collegiate sailor himself, Schreyer won a national championship in 1999, while competing for the Terriers. That season, he was an All-American and named Collegiate Sportsman of the Year. Following his graduation from BU, Schreyer competed for the US National Sailing Team from 2002-04, and set the transatlantic sailing record in 2010, traveling from New York to Barcelona, Spain.
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Schreyer, who has experience as a boatbuilder and sailmaker, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from BU in 1999.
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