INTER-COLLEGIATE SAILING ASSOCIATION NAMES
2007/2008 ICSA ALL-AMERICA SAILING TEAM
NEWPORT, R.I. (June 26, 2008) – The Intercollegiate Sailing Association of North America (ICSA) has announced the members of its 2007/2008 ICSA All-America Sailing Team, along with the Quantum Female College Sailor of the Year, the College Sailor of the Year, Sportsman of the Year and the winner of the Leonard M. Fowle Memorial Trophy for the all-around best college team. The ICSA All-American honors are awarded to competitors who demonstrated outstanding performance in competition during the college sailing year (fall and spring seasons) just concluded. A panel of representatives from each of the seven ICSA conferences reviews each sailor’s individual results and sailors are named to the team as All-Americans, Women’s All-Americans and/or All-American Crews. Their names will be added to the permanent ICSA Hall of Fame display located in the Robert Crown Sailing Center at the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, Md.).
Quantum Female College Sailor of the Year – Kaitlin Storck (Huntington, N.Y.) has been named the 2008 Quantum Female College Sailor of the Year. Storck, a graduating senior at Tufts University (Medford, Mass.) is the first Lady Jumbo to win the honor and was also named an ICSA All-American for the second time (2006, 2007).
“She is physically and mentally tough and she is an incredibly good sport,” said Tufts Head Sailing Coach Ken Legler of Storck who, in April, was named New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association Woman Sailor of the Year and Women’s Sportsmanship award winner for 2008.
Storck and crew Lyndsey Gibbons-Neff (Rosemont, Penn.), placed second in A -Division at the New England Championships, helping the Jumbos finish second overall to qualify for the ICSA Womens’ National Championship. At Nationals, the duo dominated A-Division for the first two days of the championship before finishing fourth after several double-digit scores on the final day of racing.
“I had gotten nervous and didn’t sail well,” said Storck of the final day of the ICSA Women’s National Championship. “I didn’t think I was getting this [award] because I sailed so badly the last day. But the award was for the whole year and it was really exciting for me to get it.”
Earlier in the spring, Storck, with Gibbons-Neff crewing for 10 out of 12 races, won A-Division at the Dellenbaugh Trophy after starting the season as the division runner-up at the St. Mary's College Inter-sectional. Last fall, the duo won the Atlantic Coast Championship and placed second at the Stu Nelson Trophy.
Storck’s older brothers, Erick and John, were both ICSA All-Americans, and her parents met on a sailboat. The family, including younger brother Ian, also a sailor, regularly race together. “I’m naturally competitive. I did a lot of dance in high school (St. Anthony’s) and that was different, but I always liked sailing more,” said the political science major whose sailing resume includes competing at the 420 Worlds, the ISAF Youth World Championship and the J/80 World Championship. Armed with the knowledge that she wants to continue sailing competitively – “I like to go fast and get wet” -- Storck is seriously eyeing an Olympic campaign.
