St. Mary’s was one of four teams that qualified for the 2008 ICSA Women’s National Championship that will be hosted by Brown and Salve Regina Universities on May 26-28. Hobart & William Smith Colleges, who won the MAISA Women’s Championship, the U.S. Naval Academy, and Georgetown University also qualified for the national championships.
Sailing for the Seahawks at MAISA were seniors Adrienne Patterson (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Mattie Farrar (Blaine, Wash.) and sophomores Sara Morgan Watters (Oxford, Md.) and Kelly Wilbur (Ipswich, Mass.).
St. Mary’s also finished first at the Admiral’s Cup at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., beating Hobart & William Smith by 36 points. Winning the cup for the Seahawks were seniors John Loe (Baton Rouge, La.), Meredith Nordhem (Chicago, Ill.), Brooke Thomson (Newport Beach, Calif.), and Derick Vranizan (Seattle, Wash.), junior Jen Chamberlin (Alexandria, Va.), and sophomores Mike Kushner (San Francisco, Calif.) and Jesse Kirkland (Warwick, Bermuda).
At the Thompson Trophy hosted by Connecticut College, St. Mary’s came in fourth behind the efforts of juniors Galen Brew (Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.) and Caitlin Hill (Tiverton, R.I.), sophomore Teddy Hale (Annapolis, Md.), and freshman Michael Menninger (Newport Beach, Calif.).
The Seahawks also placed fifth at the George E. Morris Trophy hosted by Boston University, while taking sixth at the Intrepid Trophy at the U.S. Naval Academy.
St. Mary’s returns to action this weekend, April 26-27, when the Seahawks compete at the ICSA Eastern Semifinals hosted by Hobart & William Smith in Geneva, N.Y. The top nine finishers will move on to the ICSA/Gill Coed National Championship on June 2-4 which will be hosted by Brown and Salve Regina in Newport, R.I.