Dear ICSA, The ICSA All-Academic Sailing Team recognizes those scholar athletes who have distinguished themselves in national and 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 only.
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 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 must have sailed in any of the six ICSA national championship disciplines (coed double-handed, women's double-handed, men's single-handed, women's single-handed, 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. Nominations will be due no later than Friday, September In addition, each institution is limited to a maximum of three nominations. The 2010 All-Academic Sailing Team will be announced in the end of September of 2010. The nomination procedure is a two step process. The nomination form can be submitted online at http://www.collegesailing.org/docs/submitaastnomination.asp. The second step is to print out the endorsement form, have an institution official sign, and then fax to (617) 253-0143 or email to Matt Lindblad. All nominations must be received by Friday, September 10, 2010. More information is available at: http://www.collegesailing.org/news/2010allacademic.asp Sincerely, Matthew Lindblad Chair, ICSA All - Academic Committee -- Matthew Lindblad Head Coach, MIT Varsity Sailing Massachusetts Institute of Technology (617) 253-4884 [email protected] ________________________________________________ icsa mailing list [email protected] http://www.collegesailing.org/mailman/?listname=icsa Unsubscribe: Send a blank email to [email protected]
