March 26, 2007

GENEVA, N.Y.—For the second year in a row the Hobart and William Smith Colleges sailing team took home the trophy last weekend at the Aaron Szambecki Team Race Challenge hosted by Old Dominion University for the second year in a row. The sailors finished first in the eight-team event, edging second-place Boston College head-to-head in the championship round. Both teams finished with 14-3 overall records.

Guiding HWS to victory was senior Trevor Moore (Woodstock Union/Pomfret, Vt.), senior Brian Clancy (Boston College/Scituate, Mass.), senior Mandi Markee (Torrey Pines/Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), junior Jay Mills (Hotchkiss School/Greenport, N.Y.), sophomore Sarah Borup (Toms River South/Pine Beach, N.J.), sophomore Kaitlyn Van Nostrand (Marine Academy/Allenwood, N.J.) and junior Hunter Farris (Trinity/Lakewood, Ohio). Moore, Clancy, Markee, and Mills were all a part of last season’s winning squad as well.

The sailing team was also in action at the Boston Dinghy Cup Challenge last weekend, as well as at the MAISA Team Race Challenge hosted by N.Y. Maritime.

In Boston, the sailors competed in 13 races and finished ninth overall out of 18 teams. Sophomores Austin Kana (Gunston School/Easton, Md.) and Morgan Commette (St. Thomas Aquinas/Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) led HWS with a seventh place finish in the A division (99 points), while classmate Rob Crane (Holderness School/Darien, Conn.) and first-year Maria Trainor (Dover-Sherborn/Sherborn, Mass.) came in eighth in the B division (106), and first-years John Moulthrop (Hotchkiss School/Greenport, N.Y.) and Emily Pelo (Scituate/Scituate, Mass.) placed 11th in the C division (117).

At the MAISA Team Race Challenge, Hobart and William Smith finished second of five teams with a 10-3 record. Representing HWS at N.Y. Maritime was junior Dan Thompson (Mounds View/North Oaks, Minn.), first-year Ned Turney (New Trier/Winnetka, Ill.), first-year Mark du Moulin (Mamaroneck/Larchmont, N.Y.), senior Nate Owen (Upper Arlington/Columbus, Ohio), senior Justin Bauer (Portsmouth Abbey School/Burlington, Conn.), and junior Bill Healy (Newark/Newark, N.Y.).

The sailors will be back on the water March 31-April 1 when they travel to N.Y. Maritime for the North Spring No. 1 Regatta.

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