A native Rhode Islander, Coach Greenfield grew up around the water. He first started sailing locally on Narragansett Bay at Saunderstown Yacht Club and then attended Boston University where he sailed for eight seasons and served as a captain for the nationally-ranked coed team. In recent years, Greenfield has been an active member of the 5O5 class as well as various inshore and offshore keelboat classes. He has won the ORC East Coast Championships and NYYC Annual Regatta as the tactician on the Tripp 41 Entropy and placed first in division, and overall, in the PHRF class for the Vineyard Race as the navigator on the R/P45 Miracle. As a team racer, Greenfield has competed at a number of U.S. Racing Championships (Hinman Trophy) and British Team Racing Championships (Wilson Trophy) including two second place finishes at the Wilson Trophy. In 2015, Greenfield and his team earned a silver medal at the ISAF Team Racing World Championships.
A native of Newport, RI, John is a 1980 graduate of St. George’s where he won two High School Fleet Racing National Championships (Mallory Trophy), winning his division each time. He went on to sail at Tulane University where he was twice an All American. He competed in the finals of the US Sailing Match Racing Championships (Prince of Wales), the US Sailing Keelboat Championships (Mallory) and the US Sailing Doublehanded Championships (Bemis). After college he focused on racing and coaching in small keelboats, winning World, National and Continental championships in the J/24, J/22 and J/35 classes.
For 30 years, John was an owner and President of J World Performance Sailing Schools overseeing their national operations as well as providing private race coaching to many domestic and international teams.
John is a US Sailing Instructor Trainer in several disciplines and an adjunct faculty member at the United States Naval Academy where he coaches in their Navy 26 keelboats. He is a retired commercial pilot and joined the St. George’s coaching staff in the Spring of 2022.
