McNAY Stuart

General
PARTNERSHIP
He competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games with Graham Biehl. In 2013 he began sailing with David Hughes. "Neither of us were necessarily thinking about continuing as Olympic sailors [after 2012], but the idea of joining forces evolved. We felt we could form a partnership that would succeed in winning an Olympic medal and was worth our time, resources, and personal investment." (SportsDeskOnline, 09 Jan 2020; ussailing.org, 01 Jan 2019; premiere-racing.com, 19 Jan 2015)

OLYMPIC AMBITIONS INFLUENCE COLLEGE CHOICE
He chose to study at Yale University in the United States of America because of its Olympic sailing tradition. "I knew that I wanted to sail in college almost as soon as I was aware of sailing as an Olympic sport. Yale is one of the strongest academically so it was at the top of my list. I grew up in Boston, so did not want to go to college in my backyard, but wanted to go to college in NEISA [New England Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association] or MAISA [Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association]. I looked at Brown, Dartmouth, Georgetown, and Yale. Of those schools Yale had the best Olympic tradition, and, even though the team was in a bit of slump, I felt that it would help my sailing more than the others, and I would be able to sail varsity right away at Yale." (470.org, 28 Feb 2011)