All-American sailor Sam Blouin returns to his alma mater for a fifth year, serving as an assistant sailing coach for the 2012-13 season.
A finalist for the 2012 Everett B. Morris College Sailor of the Year Award, Blouin competed in three Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) national championship regatta's this season. Blouin finished eighth at the ICSA Men's Singlehanded National Championship in Chicago in November, led HWS to a third place finish in the ICSA/APS Team Race National Championship and took fifth in A Division at the ICSA/Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship where HWS placed seventh overall.
During his collegiate sailing career, Blouin sailed in eight ICSA national championship events, including a second place finish in the 2011 ICSA/Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship. He earned Hobart's Most Valuable Sailor Award this season and was a co-recipient of the 2010 Hobart Sailing Award, a one-time combination of the most valuable and most improved awards.
A religious studies major and a classical studies minor, Blouin graduated cum laude in May with a bachelor's degree. He was a Dean's List student and a member of the Eta Sigma Phi classical studies honor society. Blouin earned the 2010-11 Saiving/Heaton Prize in religious studies.
A native of Tampa, Fla., Blouin has spent his summers coaching other sailors since 2007. From 2007 through 2010, he coached at the Davis Island Yacht Club and the Tampa Yacht and Country Club in Tampa, Fla. In 2011, Blouin stayed up north to serve as the head instructor of the junior sailing program at the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club on Long Island. This past summer, Blouin was the coach for the Wickford Sailing Association 420 racing program in Wickford, R.I.
