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The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) has recognized 20 outstanding scholar athletes by their selection to the 2009 ICSA All Academic Sailing Team. The honor acknowledges the success at the highest levels – both on the water and in the classroom – of these men and women who were nominated by their respective schools for academic and athletic performance during the 2008-2009 academic year.

The 2009 ICSA All Academic Team recognizes ten First Team and ten Second Team student-athletes who maintained a cumulative GPA of

3.5 on a scale of 4.00, were a key starter or reserve member of their school’s sailing team, and who had reached junior standing at his or her institution of learning in order to be considered eligible for this distinction.  “Selection to the First Team acknowledges an emphasis on academic achievement,” said ICSA President Mitch Brindley. “These individuals have met a certain balance between sailing on a competitive team and academic excellence.”  Also remarkable is that six of the scholar athletes named to the 2009 All Academic Sailing Team – Lauren Brants (Ft. Worth, Texas), Austin Kana (Easton, Md.), David Marshall (Jamestown, R.I.) and Brooks Reed (Santa Cruz, Calif.) on the First Team, and Adriane Levin (Lake Bluff, Ill.) and Maria Mahler-Haug (Branford, Conn.) on the Second Team – were also named to the ICSA All Academic Sailing Team in 2008.  In addition, four women receiving these All Academic honors have  also been recognized as ICSA All-Americans:  Christina Chance (Eastham, Mass.), Lauren Gillooly (Wyckoff, N.J.), and Megan Watson (Hingham, Mass.) for 2009, and Maria Mahler-Haug in both 2008 and 2009.

ICSA is the governing authority for sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout the United States and some parts of Canada and is comprised of seven North American Conferences within established geographic regions: Middle Atlantic (MAISA), Midwest (MCSA), New England (NEISA), Northwest (NWICSA), Pacific Coast (PCIYRA), South Atlantic (SAISA), and Southeastern (SEISA).  Each conference schedules and runs local and intersectional events, including Conference Championships that ultimately qualify teams for the ICSA National Championships.  For more information on ICSA and college sailing, please visit www.collegesailing.org.