Clinton Hayes

Interim head coach Clinton Hayes joined the Stanford sailing program as an assistant coach in August of 2011. The 2018-19 season marks his ninth season on The Farm.

In his first eight years on The Farm, Hayes, who served as interim head coach of Rhode Island's 2011 women's national championship squad, has led Stanford to 24 of 24 PCCSC spring conference championships. 

Hayes helped Stanford finish sixth in the Fowle Trophy in 2016-17 and 2017-18, while sweeping all spring PCCSC conference championships. Last season, he helped Stanford finish fifth in the team racing and coed national championships.

In 2015-16, Hayes helped Stanford finish third in the Fowle Trophy and top-10 in all three ICSA spring national championships. Stanford had six student-athletes named All-Americans at the end of the season. A year prior, Stanford once again swept the PCCSC's and finished among the top 10 at all three ICSA national championships. 

Stanford swept conference titles during the fall and spring seasons during the 2013-14 season and finished the year with program-best finishes at nationals in coed racing (fourth) and team race (third). The Cardinal swept the PCCSC team, coed and women's championship for the fifth consecutive year.

Stanford's coed squad achieved the first No. 1 ranking in program history for the Cardinal in 2013 after taking home its first-ever win at ICSA National Championship semifinals. The team went on to finish sixth at the ICSA National Championship and three Stanford sailors claimed ICSA All-America honors.

In his first season at Stanford, the Cardinal produced a league first, winning all six fall and spring Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference championships. The Cardinal went on to finish eighth at the team and coed nationals and was 13th in the women's race.

Hayes was the interim head coach at Rhode Island in 2011, leading the Rams to the women's national title. It was the Rams' first title since 1976.

Hayes previously served as an assistant at Vermont, where he starred as a sailor for the Catamounts.

Hayes led the Catamounts to their first ever spring final after a third-place finish in the Eastern Semifinals his sophomore season in 2008. Hayes was named a coed All-American in 2010 and was an honorable mention selection as a sophomore. He sailed the Catamounts to a second-place finish in the A Division of both the 2008 and 2010 national championships. Hayes was also a two-time all-conference selection, earning first-team honors as a senior and second-team status his second season.

Hayes, a native of East Haddam, Conn., sailed for the Pettipaug Yacht Club on the Connecticut river while racing Optis, Lasers and 420's. Hayes is an active team racer and has competed at both the U.S. Sailing team races and the British Open Championship for the Wilson Trophy.