ICSA final awards banquet

by Jennifer Mitchell on 11 Jun 2012 Friday night, June 8, was the final ICSA awards banquet in Austin, Texas after the last day of racing for the ICSA/Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship. The Coed and Crew ICSA All-Americans, Everett B. Morris Trophy for the College Sailor of the Year, Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award and the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for the Best Overall Team were presented.

The names of the winners will be added to the ICSA Hall of Fame display located in the Robert Crown Center at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

A committee of coaches who represent the seven conferences in the ICSA selects the ICSA All-America Team. For selecting the All-Americans the committee evaluates a competitor based on their competitive record in inter-conference competition as well as conference and national championships. The committee analyzes how this record compares to fellow competitors, the quality of the competition the record was achieved in, the span of the record over the fall and spring seasons, results achieved with different crews, and how the record compares to previous All-American winners in past years.

For All-American crew selections, the committee uses criteria similar to skipper selection, but also considers: demonstrated leadership (may consider seniority), outstanding body mechanics and boat handling skills as well as proven ability to improve the results of the skipper(s) with whom he or she sails.

The Everett B. Morris Trophy is awarded annually to the College Sailor of the Year for outstanding performance at the highest level of sailing in the collegiate year. The trophy is named in memory of a distinguished journalist who spent more than 30 years, as a yachting writer and editor. This year there were four finalists for the prestigious award: Alec Anderson, Roger Williams ’13; Chris Barnard, Georgetown University ’13; Sam Blouin, Hobart and William Smith Colleges ’12; and Mac Mace, College of Charleston ’12.

The winner, calculated by the numbers, who is also the A-division and an overall winner of the ICSA/Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship is Chris Barnard. Barnard’s teammate Sydney Bolger also won the Quantum Female Sailor of the Year award just a few days ago. Previous winners of this award include fellow Hoya Charlie Buckingham, who achieved the honor twice (2009, 2011) and is an U.S. Olympic hopeful.

Barnard has been named an ICSA Coed Honorable Mention All-American (2010) and a Coed All-American (2012). He placed in the top three in A-division at most of the regattas he sailed over the 2011-2012 season for Georgetown and has been named to the 2012 U.S. Sailing Development Team to train for the Olympics in the Laser class.

'I am extremely honored and proud to win this award,' Barnard says. It is an award he knew he would like to win, but he says he first focused on winning Nationals.

Barnard started sailing at Newport Harbor Yacht Club in Newport Beach, Calif. at the age of eight. He also sailed on the Newport Harbor High School Sailing Team. He credits his parents and grandparents for introducing him to sailing at a young age. He says he comes from a sailing family and frequently went on family cruising trips. His family members are also avid racers.

Barnard is looking forward to competing in his Laser this summer both in Europe and in the U.S. After college he will pursue an Olympic campaign in the Laser, but next year he is excited about more college sailing and defending a national title. He will graduate from Georgetown’s business program next spring with a degree in marketing.

The winner of the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for best overall collegiate team is the College of Charleston. The team with the most Fowle points, which are compiled results of the ICSA Women’s Singlehanded, Men’s Singlehanded, Match Racing, Women’s Dinghy, Team Racing, and Coed Dinghy National Championships, determines the Fowle trophy. Charleston had a successful competitive year including winning the 2012 ICSA/APS Team Race National Championship.

The Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award is awarded annually to the Sportsman of the Year. The trophy honors Robert Hobbs (MIT '64), past Executive Vice President of ICSA, past President of U.S. Sailing (1992-1994), and former chair of the U.S. Sailing Olympic Committee. This year’s winner is Sam Williams (Summit, N.J.), a graduating senior from Dartmouth College, who has shown outstanding sportsmanship during his collegiate sailing career.

The Women’s All-Americans were announced earlier at the Sperry Top-Sider/ICSA Women’s National Championship banquet as well as the Quantum Female Sailor of the Year. The finalists for this award were Sydney Bolger a senior from Georgetown University and Anne Haeger, a senior from Boston College. Although both women had an outstanding year of college sailing, Bolger won the honor this year.

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2012 ICSA All-America Team

ICSA Coed All-Americans
Alec Anderson (Tortola, B.V.I.) – Roger Williams University ‘13
Evan Aras (Annapolis, Md.) – Georgetown University ‘12
Chris Barnard (Newport Beach, Calif.) – Georgetown University ‘12
Sam Blouin (Tampa, Fla.) – Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘12
Anne Haeger (Lake Forest, Ill.) – Boston College ‘12
Brendan Kopp (Fairfield, Conn.) – Harvard University ‘12
Joe Kutschenreuter (East Troy, Wis.) – University of Wisconsin ‘12
Graham Landy (Norfolk, Va.) – Yale University ‘15
Kevin Laube (San Diego, Calif.) – Stanford University ‘14
Mac Mace (Newport Beach, Calif.) – College of Charleston ‘13
Joe Morris (Annapolis, Md.) – Yale University ‘12
Ben Spector (Santa Clarita, Calif.) – College of Charleston ‘13
Oliver Toole (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Stanford University ‘14

ICSA Honorable Mention Coed All-Americans
Austen Anderson (Northport, N.Y.) – Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘12
Sean Bouchard (Bermuda) – Roger Williams University ‘12
Cam Cullman (Rye, N.Y.) – Yale University ‘13
Joshua Greenslade (Bermuda) – St. Mary’s College of Maryland ‘13
Zeke Horowitz (Sarasota, Calif.) – College of Charleston ‘12
Colin Smith (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) – Brown University ‘13

ICSA Crew All-Americans
Alyssa Aitken (Sandwich, Mass.) – College of Charleston ‘12
Sophie Bellacosa (Winchester, Mass.) – Roger Williams University ’13
Katy Canty (Vero Beach, Fla.) – Georgetown University ‘12
Louisa Chafee (Warwick, R.I.) – Brown University ‘14
Perry Emsiek (Corona del Mar, Calif.) – College of Charleston ‘12
Rebecca Evans (Cohasset, Mass.) – Georgetown University ‘12
Molly Forbes (Edina, Minn.) – University of Wisconsin ‘12
Patrick Hession (Milton, Mass.) – Boston College ‘13
Hilary Kenyon (Wayzata, Minn.) – Georgetown University ‘13
Chris Klevan (Norfolk, Va.) – Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘12
Saverio Maldari (Andover, Mass.) – U.S. Naval Academy ‘12
Heather May (Newport Beach, Calif.) – Yale University ‘13
Laura McKenna (Palo Alto, Calif.) – Boston College ‘13
Kelly Ortel (Annapolis, Md.) – Stanford University ‘14
Catherine Pelo (Scituate, Mass.) – Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘13
Sarah Pierson (Winter Park, Fla.) – Harvard University ‘14
Emily Reich (Oak Bluffs, Mass.) – Old Dominion University ‘12
Kelly Stannard (Salem, Conn.) – Roger Williams University ‘12
Stephanie Tong (Hong Kong, China) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘12
Elizabeth Wilsterman (Winchester, Mass.) – Connecticut College ‘12

ICSA Women’s All-Americans
Emily Billing (Clearwater, Fla.) - Yale University ‘13
Sydney Bolger (Long Beach, Calif.) – Georgetown University ’12
Atlantic Brugman (Barcelona, Spain) – Connecticut College ‘13
Emily Dellenbaugh (Easton, Conn.) – Brown University ‘12
Marlena Fauer (New York, N.Y.) – Yale University ‘14
Anne Haeger (Lake Forest, Ill.) – Boston College ‘12
Amy Hawkins (Ocean Gate, N.J.) – University of Rhode Island ‘12
Morgan Kiss (Holland, Mich.) – Yale University ‘15
Sarah Mace (Newport Beach, Calif.)– Stanford University ‘14

ICSA Honorable Mention Women’s All-Americans
Sky Adams (Santa Barbara, Calif.) – Brown University ‘14
Mary Hall (Seminole, Fla.) – U.S. Naval Academy ‘15
Deirdre Lambert (Cumberland, Maine) – Dartmouth College ‘15
Natalie Salk (Jamestown, R.I.) – Tufts University ‘13

Robert H. Hobbs Sportsman of the Year
Joe Kutschenreuter (East Troy, Wis.) - University of Wisconsin ‘12
Nick Voss (Miami, Fla.) – University of Miami ‘12
Sam Williams (Summit, N.J.) – Dartmouth College ‘12*

Everett B. Morris College Sailor of the Year Finalists
Alec Anderson (Tortola, B.V.I.) – Roger Williams University ‘13
Chris Barnard (Newport Beach, Calif.) – Georgetown University ’13*
Sam Blouin (Tampa, Fla.) – Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘12
Mac Mace (Newport Beach, Calif.) – College of Charleston ‘12

Quantum Women’s College Sailor of the Year
Sydney Bolger (Long Beach, Calif.) – Georgetown University ‘12*
Anne Haeger (Lake Forest, Ill.) – Boston College ‘12

ICSA National Championships website

To view or purchase photos of the action from any of the National Championships, visit the link for photographer Bruce McDonald: http://www.mcdonaldphoto.com/Sailing/2012-Intercollegiate

The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) is the governing authority for sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in some parts of Canada. Visit www.collegesailing.org to learn more. The ICSA National Championships are sponsored by Sperry Top-Sider (www.sperrytopsider.com), Annapolis Performance Sailing (www.apsltd.com), Gill North America (www.gillna.com), and US SAILING (home.ussailing.org).