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HWS sailors capture Admiral’s Cup
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Trevor Moore |
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Augusta Nadler |
April 17, 2006
KINGS POINT, N.Y.—The second-ranked Hobart and William Smith Colleges sailing team won the Admiral’s Cup Regatta this weekend. The Colleges’ score was 63 points better than runner up and sixth-ranked St. Mary’s. No. 4 Harvard, No. 17 Kings Point, and No. 10 Charleston rounded out the top five.
The 18-team field included 14 teams in the Sailing World College Rankings top 20, including each of the top four.
Junior skipper Trevor Moore (Woodstock Union/Pomfret, Vt.) and senior crew Augusta Nadler (Tabor Academy/Marion, Mass.) sailed to victory in the B Division, winning six of the weekend’s 17 races and placing in the top five on seven other occasions. Moore and Nadler finished the two days of racing with a score of 71, 36 better than the runners up from St. Mary’s. First-year Rob Crane (Holderness School/Darien, Conn.), sailing in the singlehanded C Division, turned in a third place showing.
In the A Division, juniors skipper Brian Clancy (Boston College/Scituate, Mass.) and crew Amanda Markee (Torrey Pines/Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) finished in eighth place, but Head Coach Scott Iklé ’84 cited their performance as the crucial to victory.
“We did a real nice job in B and C Division, no question,” Iklé said. “But their ability to hang tough with everyone’s best sailors in A Division was the key to this victory.”
The Colleges competed in two other regattas this past weekend, winning the MAISA North No. 2 Qualifier hosted by Cornell and finishing 13th out of 18 teams in the Moody Trophy hosted by Rhode Island.
In Ithaca, first-year Josh Parks (Portsmouth Abbey School/Middletown, R.I.) and sophomore Bill Healy (Newark/Newark, N.Y.) won the A Division, while junior Kate Brush (Champlain Valley Union/Hinesburg, Vt.), sophomore Emily Golson (Marin Academy/Ross, Calif.), and junior Nate Owen (Upper Arlington/Columbus, Ohio) finished second in the B Division. The MAISA North No. 2 qualifier is one of three qualifying regattas for the MAISA Dinghy Championship, the America Trophy, April 29-30. HWS has competed in all three and qualified in all three.