ICSA Names 2008 All Academic Sailing Team

by Jan Harley on 19 Oct 2008 The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) has recognized 20 outstanding scholar athletes by their selection to the 2008 ICSA All Academic Sailing Team. The honor acknowledges success at the highest levels – both on the water and in the classroom – of these men and women who have been nominated by their respective schools for academic and athletic performance during the 2006-2008 academic year.

The 2008 ICSA All Academic Team recognizes ten First Team and ten Second Team student-athletes who maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.5 on a scale of 4.00, were a key starter or reserve member of their school’s sailing team, and who had reached junior standing at his or her institution of learning in order to be considered eligible for this distinction. 'Selection to the First Team acknowledges an emphasis on academic achievement,' said ICSA President, Mitch Brindley. 'These individuals have met a certain balance between sailing on a competitive team and academic excellence.'

ICSA is the governing authority for sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout the United States and some parts of Canada and is comprised of seven North American Conferences within established geographic regions: Middle Atlantic (MAISA), Midwest (MCSA), New England (NEISA), Northwest (NWICSA), Pacific Coast (PCIYRA), South Atlantic (SAISA), and Southeastern (SEISA). Each conference schedules and runs local and intersectional events, including Conference Championships that ultimately qualify teams for the ICSA National Championships. For more information on ICSA and college sailing, please visit www.collegesailing.org.

2008 ICSA ALL ACADEMIC SAILING TEAM – FIRST TEAM
Name Yr Hometown School GPA Major

Julie Arsenault Sr. Thompson, CT MIT 3.92 Mechanical and Ocean Engineering

Lauren Brants Jr. Ft. Worth, TX Harvard Univ. 3.80 History and Literature

Jeff Dusek Jr. Bay Village, OH Florida Atlantic Univ. 3.97 Ocean Engineering

Jack Field Sr. Noank, CT MIT 3.70 Aerospace Engineering

Lyndsey Gibbons-Neff Sr. Rosemont, PA Tufts Univ. 3.80 Environmental Health Engineering

Austin Kana Jr. Easton, MD Hobart / William Smith 3.88 Environmental Studies / Public Policy

David Marshall Jr. Jamestown, RI Connecticut College 3.95 Biology / Anthropology

Andrew Perry Sr. Sarasota, FL Brown Univ. 3.80 Biochemistry

Brooks Reed Jr. Santa Cruz, CA MIT 3.90 Mech. Eng. / Ocean Engineering

Kristen Sproat Sr. Berwyn, PA U.S. Naval Academy 4.00 Systems Engineering (Honors)

2008 ICSA ALL ACADEMIC SAILING TEAM – SECOND TEAM
Name Yr Hometown School GPA Major

Abigail Coplin Sr. Delmar, NY Yale Univ. 3.63 Chemistry / East Asian Studies

Carrie Anne Denning Sr. Greenwich, CT Stanford Univ. 3.70 History

Michael Easton Sr. Lexington, MA Tufts Univ. 3.85 Mechanical Engineering

Robert Grandstaff Sr. Red Oak, TX U.S. Merchant Marine Academy 3.87 Marine Transportation

Elizabeth Hawkins Sr. Fairfield, CT Connecticut College 3.63 History / Art History

Kyle Kovacs Sr. Brant Beach, NJ Harvard Univ. 3.62 History of Science

Adriane Levin Jr. Lake Bluff, IL Yale Univ. 3.70 Psychology / Pre-med

Maria Mahler-Haug Jr. Branford, CT Brown Univ. 3.62 International Relations

Kelly McKenna Jr. Palo Alto, CA Stanford Univ. 3.63 History

Meris Tombari Sr. Fishers Island, NY Brown University 3.75 Visual Arts & Arch. Studies