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Herons finish 10th in ICSA Women’s Championship
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May 26, 2006
CHARLESTON, S.C.—The 14th-ranked William Smith sailing team finished 10th in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Women’s Dinghy National Championship on the Cooper River. The Herons were making their sixth consecutive (7th overall) appearance in the ICSA Women’s Dinghy Championship.
William Smith’s best finishes are ninth place efforts in 1999 and 2001.
Top-ranked College of Charleston won the Gerald C. Miller Trophy with a regatta low score of 207. The Cougars were followed by No. 4 Georgetown, No. 11 St. Mary’s, No. 5 Stanford, and No. 7 Dartmouth.
In the A Division, seniors Augusta Nadler (Tabor Academy/Marion, Mass.) and Molly Lawson (Noble & Greenough School/Duxbury, Mass.) held down second place with 121 points. They finished in the top three, including three victories, in 11 of the event’s 18 races.
In the B Division, junior Kate Brush (Champlain Valley Union/Hinesburg, Vt.), sophomore Kate Wilson (Prout School/Hope Valley, R.I.), and senior Amanda Markee (Torrey Pines/Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) finished the series in 14th place.
The top-ranked Hobart and William Smith Colleges coed sailing team will begin its quest for a third national championship on May 28, when the ICSA Team Race Championship begins on the Cooper River. HWS won its first national championship in the 2005 ICSA Team Race Championship in Austin, Texas. The College followed that victory up with a triumph in the 2005 ICSA Coed Dinghy Championship.