For Immediate Release. Contact: Jan Harley, Media Pro Int'l, 401-849-0220 ICSA NAMES 2008 ALL ACADEMIC SAILING TEAM Norfolk, VA (October 2, 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
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