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INTER-COLLEGIATE SAILING ASSOCIATION NAMES
2008/2009 ICSA ALL-AMERICA SAILING TEAM
Yale University Wins Fowle Trophy
NEWPORT, R.I. (June 17, 2009) - The Intercollegiate Sailing Association of
North America (ICSA) has announced the members of its 2008/2009 ICSA
All-America Sailing Team, along with the Quantum Female College Sailor of
the Year, the College Sailor of the Year, Sportsman of the Year and the
winner of the Leonard M. Fowle Memorial Trophy for the all-around best
college team. The ICSA All-American honors are awarded to competitors who
demonstrated outstanding performance in competition during the college
sailing year (fall and spring seasons) just concluded. A panel of
representatives from each of the seven ICSA conferences reviews each
sailor's individual results and sailors are named to the team as
All-Americans, Women's All-Americans and/or All-American Crews. Their names
will be added to the permanent ICSA Hall of Fame display located in the
Robert Crown Sailing Center at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, Md.).
2009 College Sailor of the Year - Charlie Buckingham (Newport Beach,
Calif.), a rising junior at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.), has
been honored as ICSA's 2009 College Sailor of the Year. The recognition is
acknowledgement of a year that saw Buckingham excel whether fleet racing or
team racing, sailing alone or with a crew. Last fall he finished first at
the MAISA Singlehanded Championship and the MAISA Team Race Championship,
was second in A-Division at The War Memorial Regatta (the conference
championship) and the Coed Atlantic Coast Championships, and was sixth at
the ICSA/Laser Performance Singlehanded Nationals. During the spring season
which just wrapped up he won A-Division at both the Truxtun Umsted and the
ICSA National Championship Eastern Semi-Finals, with the latter qualifying
Georgetown to advance to the finals for the national title in San Francisco
- the ICSA/Gill National Championship - at which Buckingham skippered to
fourth in A-Division with the Hoyas finishing third in the overall
standings.
"Charlie was the most consistent sailor in college sailing all year long,"
said Mike Callahan, Georgetown's Head Sailing Coach who in the last four
years has had three of his sailors win this award. "From start to finish he
sailed well. I think that is what clinched it for him. Others had a great
regatta from time to time but Charlie was the most consistent."
Buckingham's parents and sisters all sail and he is a veteran of the
competitive programs at Newport Harbor Yacht Club and Newport Harbor High
School where he finished second in the high school national championships in
his junior year before winning that event his senior year. His decision to
attend Georgetown was based primarily on academics: "It was the best school
I was accepted to, and it just so happened they had a good [sailing]
program, so it made my decision easy."
Buckingham has arranged to do a lot of sailing over the summer in his boat
of choice - the Laser - and was about to head to Europe where he will
compete at Kiel Week in Germany at the end of June. Along with five other
college sailors he will spend three week s competing at British schools on
the BUSA Team Racing Tour and then wrap up the summer by competing in his
first Laser World championship.
"Pretty incredible," was how Buckingham described winning the College Sailor
of the Year honors. "After working hard all year, getting recognized at the
end is really good. It's been sinking in since I got home. Hard to
describe the feeling, but I'm really happy." Already a two-time ISCA
All-American ('08, '09) and with two more years of college sailing still
ahead of him, is he thinking about winning this award again? "I'm just
going to concentrate on sailing the best that I can. If the award comes
again, it would be really cool. I didn't have an inkling that I was in the
running for it going into Nationals and wasn't striving for it. If people
fixate on stuff like that too much then they put too much pressure on
themselves and that takes away from the performance you could have sailing
for your team. You're not doing your best to make your team's result the
best it could be. I'd really like to be as successful in college sailing
as I can, and after college I'd like to pursue an Olympic campaign in the
Laser."
Quantum Female College Sailor of the Year - Jane Macky (Auckland, New
Zealand), a graduating senior from Yale University (New Haven, Conn.), has
been named the 2009 Quantum Female College Sailor of the Year. She is the
first Bulldog to win the honor and, in addition, was named an ICSA
All-American for the second year running (2008, 2009).
The Yale Women's Sailing Team was ranked at or near the top all season, and
Macky's contributions were a big part of the equation. Last fall she
finished fourth at the New England Women's Singlehanded Championship and was
third at the ICSA Singlehanded Nationals, but it was sailing with long-time
crew Marla Menninger that proved most rewarding with a win of A-Division at
the Atlantic Coast Championship one of their top performances.
At the 2008 ICSA Women's National Championship, Yale appeared to have a lock
on the title after the first two days of racing. On the final day of the
championship, Macky and Menninger won A-Division but problems in the
B-Division boat kept Yale off the podium and the Bulldogs finished third
overall. This time 'round, Yale had a six point lead in the overall
standings coming into the final day of racing and by the second race of the
morning, it was clear that Macky and Menninger were working hard to keep the
title within their grasp. Winning four of the day's eight races moved the
duo third to first in A-Division to secure Yale the 2009 ICSA Women's
National Championship title.
"I am still excited how we finished as a team," said Macky. "We worked
really hard as a team and it was fun to execute well at nationals. The
Quantum award reflects mine and Marla's career together. We didn't let the
pressure from last year affect us. When you've done all the practice you
just go out and execute on the day. Being my last regatta after having a
fantastic two years with Marla. . . it was just fun. "
>From a sailing family, Macky was enjoying some down time in California after
nationals ended, and admitted that she was putting off making her next move.
Other than a weekend coaching job she has lined up, she is looking for a
full-time permanent job with the plan of doing some sailing on the side. "I
grew up in the City of Sails (Auckland) and my eldest sister twice
represented New Zealand at the Olympics in the Europe class. I definitely
have been going back and forth with the thoughts of an Olympic campaign . .
. and maybe I'll be in a better position to decide in about a year or so. "
2009 ICSA Sportsman of the Year - Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)
graduating senior and four-time ICSA All-American ('06, '07, '08, '09) Adam
Roberts (Point Loma, Calif.) has been recognized as the 2009 ICSA Sportsman
of the Year. Roberts was nominated by both competitors and coaches, from a
variety of teams, and BC Head Coach Greg Wilkinson attributes the
recognition to the fact that others enjoyed racing against him. "And it's
important to keep in mind that for the most part, that meant that people
enjoyed being beaten by him! He's quite good. As his coach, it seems to me
that sailing's 'Corinthian spirit' is in Adam's blood. From day one, there
was never a question as to whether or not he 'got it.'" This was the second
time Roberts's sportsmanship has earned him honors; earlier this spring the
New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association recognized him as its
Sportsman of the Year. He helped Boston College win the 2008 and 2009
ICSA/APS Team Race National Championships and in 2007 he led the Eagles to a
second place finish at the Sloop National Championships.
Roberts's parents took up sailing when they moved to San Diego from the east
coast and were in their 30s when they started racing. They made sailing a
family project, and Roberts learned to sail in the San Diego Yacht Club
(SDYC) junior program and later was a member of the sailing team that
represented Point Loma High School. He went to BC for the academics and
summed up his experience there: "It was awesome. It's a great place, great
atmosphere."
"My whole approach to sailing is pretty effortless," said Roberts. "When it
comes down to it, I'm out there to have a good time. I want to have fun
with my friends. I've known these people forever and getting to compete
against them is great. I do like to avoid the protest room. I'm not very
good at defending myself even when I'm right. Sailing is the kind of sport
that can be solved on the water, and the end result is that I don't really
like to leave my regatta result to something that will be decided by a jury.
It [the award] certainly means a lot. I have the utmost respect for every
competitor, because to be honest, I feel any one of them could have won
this."
Roberts has now turned his attention to the 470, with hopes of making the
2012 Olympic Sailing Team. His crew is Nick Martin, a junior at the College
of Charleston, a childhood friend with whom he has sailed now for over eight
years. The two were in the SDYC junior program together and are spending
this summer in Europe racing on the 470 circuit
"Roberts sailed at the extreme top level of college sailing--sometimes in
the most bruising of battles and often to the top of the podium," said Adam
Werblow, Chairman of the ICSA All America Selection Committee. "He always
played within the rules and was fun to race with and against no matter the
result. He played extremely fairly and is the exact type of competitor that
everyone hopes to play against. He's one of the best guys in college
sailing . . . he's hard as hell to beat and if you do beat him, he is
gracious about it.
Fowle Memorial Trophy - Yale University: The Leonard M. Fowle Memorial
Trophy, recognizing the year's best all-around performance in college
sailing, has been awarded to Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) Presented
since 1972, the award is determined by points accumulated at the major
Intercollegiate Sailing Association Championships.
Last fall Yale finished fifth and third, respectively, at the ICSA/Vanguard
Men's Singlehanded and the ICSA/Vanguard Women's Singlehanded Championship.
At the end of May, Yale won the 2009 ICSA Women's National Championship, was
fourth at the ICSA/APS Team Race National Championship, and wrapped up the
year with a second-place finish at the ICSA/Gill National Championship after
an extremely tough series.
For more on ICSA, visit www.collegesailing.org
<http://www.collegesailing.org/> . A full list of the 2008/2009 ICSA
All-America Sailing Team follows.
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2009 COLLEGE SAILOR OF THE YEAR The Everett B. Morris Trophy
Charlie Buckingham (Newport Beach, Calif.) - Georgetown University '11
2009 QUANTUM FEMALE COLLEGE SAILOR OF THE YEAR
Jane Macky (Auckland, New Zealand) - Yale University '09
2009 SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR The Robert H. Hobbs Trophy
Adam Roberts (San Diego, Calif.) - Boston College '09
TEAM OF THE YEAR The Leonard M. Fowle Memorial Trophy
Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
2008/2009 ICSA ALL-AMERICA SAILING TEAM
ICSA Coed All-American Skippers
Evan Aras (Annapolis, Md.) - Georgetown University '11
Thomas Barrows (St. Thomas, USVI) - Yale University '10
Charles Buckingham (Newport Beach, Calif.) - Georgetown University '11
Matthew Duggan (East Sandwich, Mass.) - Roger Williams University '09
Todd Hawkins (Ocean Gate, N.J.) -- SUNY Maritime College '09
Brian Kamilar (Miami, Fla.) - Boston College '09
Jesse Kirkland (Warwick, Bermuda) - St. Mary's College '10
Michael Menninger (Newport Beach, Calif.) - St. Mary's College '11
Joseph Morris (Annapolis, Md.) - Yale University '12
Adam Roberts (San Diego, Calif.) - Boston College '09
Tyler Sinks (San Diego, Calif.) - Boston College '11
Cy Thompson (St. Thomas, USVI) - Roger Williams '11
Andrew Vann (Tampa, Fla.) - U.S. Naval Academy '09
ICSA Coed Honorable Mention:
Arthur Blodgett (Camden, Maine) - Eckerd College '09
Conner Blouin (Tampa, Fla.) - Washington College '10
Taylor Canfield (St. Thomas, USVI) - Boston College '11
Tomas Hornos (Swampscott, Mass.) - Tufts University '10
Fred Strammer (Nokomis, Fla.) - Brown University '11
Robert Vann (Tampa, Fla.) - U.S. Naval Academy '11
ICSA Women All-Americans
Allison Blecher (Fullerton, Calif.) - College of Charleston '10
Sydney Bolger (Long Beach, Calif.) - Georgetown University '12
Anne Haeger (Lake Forest, Ill.) - Boston College '12
Kate Hagemann (Marion, Mass.) - Yale University '09
Jane Macky (Auckland, New Zealand) - Yale University '09
Megan Magill (San Diego, Calif.) - St. Mary's College '11
Andrea Savage (Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.) - College of Charleston '09
Megan Watson (Hingham, Mass.) - Harvard University '09
ICSA Women's Honorable Mention
Leigh Kempton (Island Heights, N.J.) - Boston College '09
Martha Pitt (Milton, Mass.) - Boston College '09
Stephanie Roble (East Troy, Wisc.) - Old Dominion '11
Maggie Shea (Winnetka, Ill.) - Connecticut College '11
ICSA All-American Crew
Carrie Amarante (Wayne, N.J.) - Boston College '09
Grace Becton (Deer Isle, Maine) - Yale University '09
Carly Chamberlain (Newport Beach, Calif.) - Georgetown University '09
Jennifer Chamberlin (Alexandria, Va.) - St. Mary's College '09
Christina Chance (Eastham, Mass.) - U.S. Naval Academy '10
Sarah Donahue (Boxborough, Mass.) - Boston University '09
Jaclyn Finney (Hampton, Va.) - Old Dominion University '09
Danielle Gamache (Holland, Mich.) - SUNY Maritime College '09
Lauren Gillooly (Wyckoff, N.J.) - Boston College '09
Britney Haas (San Diego, Calif.) - College of Charleston '09
Kaytlin Hall (Santa Monica, Calif.) - Roger Williams University '09
Caila Johnson (Middletown, R.I.) - Georgetown University '10
Maria Mahler-Haug (Branford, Conn.) - Brown University '09
Kelly McKenna (Lake Forest, Ill.) - Stanford University '09
Marla Menninger (Newport Beach, Calif.) - Yale University '10
Maria Petrillo (Mystic, Conn.) - Roger Williams University '09
Andrew Schneider (Marblehead, Mass.) - Boston College '09
Alexandra Taylor (Hobe Sound, Fla.) - Georgetown University '10
Meghan Wareham (Osterville, Mass.) - Harvard University '11
Kelly Wilbur (Ipswich, Mass.) - St. Mary's College '10
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