November 16, 2001

GENEVA, N.Y.--The Hobart and William Smith Colleges sailing team is ranked fifth in the most recent Intercollegiate Sailing Association poll. The team closed its fall schedule with a victory at the Freshmen Atlantic Coast Championships in Providence, R.I., on Nov. 11.

The sailors finished with a score of 110, 24 points ahead of Dartmouth College, and 39 points ahead of third-place finisher and host Brown University. In the A Division, first-years John Stork (St. Anthony's/Huntington, N.Y.), Liz McCarthy (Notre Dame Academy/Milton, Mass.), and Kate May (Cranston East/Cranston, R.I.) finished second with a score of 57. First-years Eric Oppen (Oromo/Wayzata, Minn.), Kate Kana (Gunston School/Easton, Md.), and Lee Sacker (Gilmour Academy/Mentor, Ohio) won the B Division with 53 points.

Hobart and William Smith Colleges are two private, coordinate institutions of higher learning in the liberal arts located along the western shore of Seneca Lake in Geneva, N.Y. Hobart College was founded in 1822 and currently enrolls 863 men. William Smith College for women was founded in 1908 and currently enrolls 980 women. The coordinate system allows the two colleges to share faculty and facilities and provide coeducational classes. However, each college awards its own degrees, has its own dean and admissions office, and maintains its own student government and athletics programs.

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