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MAISA
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MAISA
[Middle
Atlantic]
Again
this year, competition in MAISA events will be ferocious. Fresh
off a win at the 2001 Team Race North Americans last spring, Georgetown
should be at the top of the charts again this year. The graduation
of a handful of All-Americans will only be a small speedbump for
the Hoyas. They return Brian Bissell, Ken Ward, Curtis Flood,
and Leah Williams, all of whom have championship experience.
At women's regattas look for Liz Sampson and Eliza Ryan as skippers
while Mimi Elliot is abroad for the fall. Joining the Hoya women's
team will be skipper Cordo Carraher and crews Barbara Hall and
Dorothee Bergin.
The St. Mary's Seahawks will be tough this year as their youth
now has a year of experience and the same teams from both women's
and coed North Americans return, with Danny Pletsch and Leah Anderson
both redshirting the fall. In addition, the Seahawks will look
to newcomer Chuck Asper in singlehanded divisions. Women skippers
Jamie Smith and Ali Sharp will again be the team to beat at district
women's events.
Old Dominion should be on solid ground with the return of All-Americans
Brad Funk, Sally Barkow, and Liz Biondi. Moving up this year will
be seniors Matt Allen and Ryan Thorvaldsen and sophomore Jack
Kerr. With Barkow leading Corrie Clement, Debbie Cappozi, Jessica
Simpson, and freshman Anna Tunnicliffe, the Monarchs will field
a very deep women's team.
Returning to the Monarchs as Assistant Coach will be two-time
All-American Mark Zagol.
Hobart/William Smith return the very capable Ed Norton, Sam Roger,
John Pierce, and Matt Simpson. Count on the Statesmen to be contenders.
On the women's side, HWS returns Amanda Callahan and Sonja Smith,
both of whom are championship savvy.
The big news at Kings Point is the departure of Jay Kehoe for
Stanford and appointment of Kim Logan as head coach. KP will look
good as return all the starters from their victorious America
Trophy team, including Stu Colie, Dave Chapman, and Dave Wright.
Last spring's B division starter, Chris Breland, will redshirt
the fall season. Additionally, Kings Point has a large group of
plebes this year anchored by Peeter Must, winner of the 2000 ISSA
Singlehanded Radial Championship.
The Naval Academy returns much of last season's team with Travis
Weber, Mike Stapleton, Justin Smith, and Ricky Lang all back to
sail for the Midshipmen. Joining the Mids will be Travis's brother,
Spencer. The women also have experience coming back in Emily duPont,
Lindsey Bartel, and Alexis Bestoso.
Equally last year's impressive performance will be difficult for
Queen's University. But the hiring of John Curtis as head coach
should help. Furthermore they have some standouts joining the
team this year in Raif Richardson, Ryan Mahaffey and Benn Gun,
Richardsoin is a noted Laser II sailor, and Gun brings a good
deal of team racing experience from Australia. It's expected that
distinguished seniors Bernard Luttmer and Oskar Johansson will
have to skip the collegiate sailing this year as they focus on
their final year of studies and their Olympic campaigns. Both
will surely be missed.
Washington College should also figure prominently in district
events. They return Mike Buckley, Meg Nichols, and Simon Dey.
MAISA
COED:
1 Georgetown
2 St. Mary's
3 Old Dominion
4 Kings Point
5 Hobart/Wm. Smith
6 Navy
7 Queen's
8 Washington College
MAISA
WOMEN:
1. St. Mary's
2. Old Dominion
3. Navy
4. Hobart/Wm.
5. Georgetown Smith
6. Washington Coll
MCSA
[Mid West]
Despite losing Bora Golari and Amy Leenhouts to graduation, The
Michigan Wolverines will likely be the strongest team in the MCSA.
The defending champions in all three spring districts, Michigan
will be led this year by skipper Nathan Marshall and crew Ellen
Hartwell.
Miami University graduated Kelly Reese and Notre Dame graduated
RJ Wolney. The Badgers of Wisconsin will be likely be Michgan's
top competition in the MCSA.
MCSA
COED:
1. Michigan
2. Wisconsin
3. Minnesota
4. Northwestern
5. Ohio State
6. W. Michigan
MCSA
WOMEN:
1. Michigan
2. Wisconsin
3. W. Michigan
NEISA
[New
England]
Harvard
remains the top team in NEISA; they were barely affected by graduation.
Sean Doyle and Michelle Yu, Margaret Gill and Susan Bonney, and
Clay Bischoff and Lema Kikuchi all return to contend for all kinds
of intersectionals and championships for the Crimson.
Tufts seeks to defend its somewhat improbable dinghy championship
without Adam Deermount and Lisa Keith, but the Jumbos will have
2001 North Americans A Division Champion Peter Levesque and Caroline
Hall for two more years. Tufts also has several junior and senior
skippers ready to step up. On the women's side Tufts graduated
standouts Jen Provan, Laurin Manning, and Lee Icyda. Sophomore
AJ Crane becomes the women's team leader.
Boston College has the returning college sailor of the year in
Tyler Pruett, but not his super star crew Elise Mazareas. Mark
Teborek, Brad Yetmen, and Carrie Howe will continue to play important
roles for the Eagles.
The Dartmouth Big Green suffered the most of NEISA's big four
this spring as the team lost graduation of Pat Hogan, Carly Prior,
Erin Maxwell, Leslie Sandberg, and Katie Lyndon to graduation.
Stepping up into even bigger roles will be Scott Hogan, Jen Morgan,
Kevin Horrigan and Thalia Pascalides.
The young Yale Elis improve with Stu McNay, Brandon Wall, and
freshman Julie Papanek. Meanwhile, the young Brown Bears also
move up with Chris Ashley, Alex Mehran, Whitney Besse, and freshman
Anne Davidson.
Boston University Terriers return Liza Burnes to lead sophomore
dinghy and Laser sailor Streett Silvestri and Brian Baranaskus
and crew Jen Baker.
The Camels of Connecticut College will be led by the international
experience of the sophomore Amanda Clark. The Vermont Catamounts
are led by Nat Spencer and the URI Rams return a strong team led
by Chad Atkins. Coast Guard will be competitive with Brad Soule
and Mike Newell. MIT has incoming freshman JM Modisette.
Bowdoin and Roger Williams are seeking to upgrade their programs;
they both have a number of good skippers. Bowdoin will have 18
new Larks and Roger Williams is exploring several improvements
to their facilities.
NEISA
COED:
1. Harvard
2. Tufts
3. Boston College
4. Dartmouth
5. Yale
6. Connecticut College
7. Brown
8. Rhode Island
9. MIT
10. Coast Guard
NEISA
WOMEN:
1. Connecticut College
2. Dartmouth
3. Boston College
4. Brown
5. Tufts
6. Yale
7. Harvard
8. Boston Univ
9. Bowdoin
10. Vermont
NWICSA
[Northwest]
The
general picture in the North West seems to be continuing to improve-more
sailors and stronger teams. Fortunately for University of Washington
several years of hard work and program development gives them
the strength and depth to swallow the loss of several key players
to graduation, including Anthony Boscolo, Lea Saunders, Jason
Salvo, and Stephanie Hall. Led by Coach Andy Mack and sailors
Michael Karas and Andy Schimdt, they should continue with a large
and talented team that will again be the force in the Northwest.
Western Washington University will continue to be strong, but
will experience changes with some upperclassmen focusing on academics
and some focusing on the development of a women's team.
Washington State seems to be building strength as they return
both starting skippers and a top crew. University of Oregon loses
Team Captain Violet Barnard but several young team members should
carry the flag. Portland State University continues its effort
to rebuild.
NWICSA
COED:
1. Washington
2. Western Washington
3. Washington State
4. Oregon
5. Portland State
PCIYRA
[West
Coast]
The
Hawaii Rainbows graduated their top two coed starters, Brent Harrill
and Josh Henrich, but a pack of returning talent, Molly O'Bryan,
Willi Edwards, Steve Brown, Jennifer Warnock, Adam Corpuz-Lahne,
Sarah Hitchcock, and Renee Decurtis, and an exceptional incoming
freshman class that includes Bryan Lake, Joey Pasquali, and Matt
Stine should make them the team to beat on the PCIYRA. With the
Spring North Americans held in Hawaii for the first time in history
the rest of the country should also struggle to beat the Hawaii
coed team and the defending ICSA champion women's team.
Although UC Santa Barbara returns most of its top sailors, changes
in coaching and general leadership may prove to the real obstacles
that stand between this team and them performing up to their potential.
USC and Stanford both return all of their starters and also welcome
an influx of new blood with Jeff Allen, Lauren Gross, and Amy
Halvorsen joining Stanford and Harrison, Paul Taylor, Charles
Hood, and Ben Palmer joining the Trojans. Veteran Stanford Head
Coach Steve Bourdow is leaving and will be replaced by former
Yale and Kings Point coach Jay Kehoe. USC is looking to veteran
coach and former All-American Mike Pinckney to provide on-the-water
development as assistant coach.
UC Irvine is probably making the biggest moves in the west. Led
by alumni coach Jonathan Posner this program has done some tremendous
rebuilding during the past several years and this fall's freshman
class of over 10 notable recruits-Lauren Maxam, Jordon Korss,
Carlos Roberts, Kelsey Cochran, and Emily Hemberger to mention
a few-should seal their return to prominence.
With lots of young talent and three returning seniors UC Berkeley
will continue to be a player and continue to show that strong
leadership and organization can keep a student run team on par
with the "big guys."
Cal Maritime returns a group of young talent led by captain Junior
Nick Leik. A yet-to-be-named coach and some incoming freshmen
should bolster this growing program. UC San Diego also continues
to flourish under strong student leadership and will have a strong
presence in the PCIYRA.
PCIYRA
COED:
1. Hawaii
2. UC Santa Barbara
3. Stanford
4. USC
5. UC Irvine
6. UC Berkeley
7. Cal Maritime
8. UC/San Diego
PCIYRA
WOMEN:
1. Hawaii
2. Stanford
3. UC Berkeley
4. USC
5. UC Irvine
6. UC Santa Barbara
SAISA
[South Atlantic]
No
one will be surprised to find College of Charleston dominating
the South Atlantic district; however, once again they will be
under more and more pressure from the strengthening Florida teams.
The Cougars lost Zach Fanberg, Kippy Chamberlain, and Sarah Taylor
to graduation. All three made the ICSA All-America team in June.
However, rising to take their places will be a trio of All-Americans-Marcus
Eagan, Nathan Hollerbach, and Roseanne Monti-each of whom competed
in last year's North Americans. In addition, count on Karl Schutte
to be a player, particularly in Lasers. Assisting Coach George
Wood will be Cougar alumnus and All-American David Dabney.
The University of South Florida will battle for second in SAISA
with Eckerd, Florida, Rollins, and Florida Tech. Led by coaches
Stephanie Doyle and Stan Hyatt, USF returns most of last year's
team including Genoa Griffin, Garth Reynolds, and Ali Deese. The
USF Bulls are in their second year of varsity recognition for
the women's team and they will be breaking in a new fleet of Vanguard
FJs. They will be the host school for the ICSA Sloop North Americans.
At Rollins College, second-year coach Darryl Tamash hopes that
returning nearly the whole team from last year will result in
greater consistency this year. The team on the water will again
be led by senior Cy Bent, junior Shea Szambecki, and sophomore
Jess Willis.
Florida Tech skippers Joao Vogel and Dan Keene will be responsible
for rebuilding their team. Having purchased Connecticut College's
fleet of FJs, FIT should be hosting more events this year.
SAISA
COED:
1. Charleston
2. South Florida
3. Eckerd
4. Rollins
5. Florida
SAISA
WOMEN:
1. Charleston
2. South Florida
3. Eckerd
SEISA
[Southeast]
Bruce
Mahoney, the very popular national singlehanded champion, has
graduated from Texas and has spent the summer representing the
ICSA in the all-star college sailing tour of the British Isles.
But even without their top sailor, Texas will likely lead the
SEISA with Spencer Ogden. Chris LaBorde has one more year at Kansas,
which could make some noise under his leadership. Texas A&M
Galveston will be active as usual while Tulane, once a perennially
top ranked team, seeks to rebuild.
SEISA
COED:
1. Texas
2. Texas A&M Galv
3. Kansas
4. Tulane
SEISA
WOMEN:
1. Texas
2. Texas A&M Galv
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