Dear Friends of College Sailing:
The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association of North America, the national governing body of the sport of college sailing, is seeking your assistance in nominating individuals for the 2009 ICSA All Academic Sailing Team. The ICSA All-Academic Sailing Team recognizes those scholar-athletes who have distinguished themselves in national or intersectional competition, while achieving the highest levels of academic excellence. The ICSA All-Academic Sailing Team (AAST) was inaugurated in 2006, and joins the ICSA All American Sailing Team, which recognizes outstanding competitive performance. Selection of the ICSA All-Academic Sailing Team is made by a seven-person committee with representatives from each of the seven conferences that comprise the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association. In selecting the All Academic Sailing Team, the AAST Selection Committee identifies those sailors with the strongest academic records who have also distinguished themselves as competitors in either national or intersectional competition. The Selection Committee uses the same competitive data used for the ICSA All American Committee. In determining whether an individual should be named to a national versus a conference team, the individual with the stronger competitive record at a national championship or at numerous inter-sectional events shall be named to a national team. Each year, up to 10 scholar athletes are selected for the National First Team, with up to another 10 selected for the National Second Team. In addition, the All Academic Sailing Team Selection Committee may select up to 35 scholar-athletes for All Conference recognition. In order to be eligible for consideration, a scholar-athlete must have a junior or senior academic standing, and have completed one full academic year at the member institution prior to the year for which the award is being received. The nominee must have achieved a minimum cumulative overall grade point average of 3.5 on a 4.00 scale. Each nomination must be endorsed by a college official (sports information director, club sports official, team advisor, or coach). As a competitor, the nominee must be a key starter or reserve member of their institution's sailing team; no distinction is made between sailors who compete for teams that are considered varsity sports or club sports by their respective institution. The nominee may have sailed in any of the six ICSA national championship disciplines (coed double-handed, women's double-handed, men's singlehanded, women's singlehanded, coed team racing, or coed sloops), in any capacity (skipper or crew), though the nominee is not required to have competed in a national championship event. Responsibility for submitting a nomination rests solely with the nominee and the nominee's institution. In addition, each institution is limited to a maximum of three nominations. The 2008 All Academic Sailing Team will be announced on September 19, 2009. The nomination procedure is a two step process. The nomination form can be submitted online at http://www.collegesailing.org/docs/aastnomination.asp. The second step is to print out the endorsement form, have an institution official sign, and then fax to (206)426-2668. All nominations must be received by Friday, August 29. Questions can be directed to: Matthew Lindblad Co-Chair, ICSA All-Academic Committee [email protected] Thank you, Matt Matthew Lindblad Acting Sailing Master Head Coach, MIT Varsity Sailing Massachusetts Institute of Technology (617) 253-4884 [email protected] http://sailing.mit.edu <http://sailing.mit.edu/> ________________________________________________ icsa mailing list [email protected] http://www.collegesailing.org/mailman/?listname=icsa
