February 17, 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The Georgetown University sailing team started their spring season last weekend with two regattas, finishing third at Charleston Spring Women's Intersectional while taking first place at the  ODU Quad Race. The results are as follows.

Charleston Spring Women's Intersectional @ College of Charleston
A div.  5th w/ 46 points Derby Anderson / Barbara Hall
B div. 3rd w/ 31 points Blaire Herron / Emily Siguler

Overall
1. Charleston               52
2. Stanford                  76
3. Georgetown            77
4. Eckerd                    98
5. Navy                     109
6. St. Mary's             111
7. Old Dominion       125
8. Columbia              126
9. South Florida        129
10. Coast Guard        158
11. Wisconsin            159
12. Texas A&M Galveston     184

This was a good start to the 2005 season for the Lady Hoyas.  The girls started off slow but put together astring of great races to pull within a point of Charleston going into the second day.  In B Blaire and Emily had four firsts a second and a sixth in their first six races.  After the first race on Sunday the Hoyas were leading overall and winning A and B but then the breeze died a bit, the current got stronger and our scores got higher.Stanford just snuck by the Hoyas to claim second.


ODU Quad Invite w/ St. Mary's, Navy and Old Dominion
Fleet Racing 18 Boats
1. Andrew Campbell / Caroline LaMotte
3. Steve Streit / Emily Bogrand
11. Chris Behm / Julia Graham

Team Racing
Hoyas 6-0

The Quad invite is a practice/regatta with the three other MAISA schools.  Saturday is a fleet race regatta with the top six St. Mary's and ODU boats as well as three from Georgetown and three from Navy.  Andrew and Caroline dominated the fleet racing part and Steve and Emilie sailed quite well to finish 3rd.  In the team racing round
robin the Hoyas went unbeaten.

This weekend the Hoyas will compete in three regattas.
Coed Spring Intersectional @ College of Charleston
Quad Invite @ Navy
Washington College Team Race

Here are the latest rankings:

Sailing World College Rankings as of February 15, 2005
Determined by Sailing World's coaches' panel:
Michael Callahan, Georgetown; Ken Legler, Tufts; and Mike Segerblom, USC

COED                (prev rank)
1. Brown              (1)
2. USC                (2)
3. Yale               (3)
4. Harvard            (4)
5. Hobart/WmSmith (5)
6. Hawaii             (6)
7. Dartmouth          (7)
8. Boston Coll        (8)
9. UC/Irvine          (16)
10. Stanford            (9)
11. Georgetown      (13)
12. St. Mary's          (10)
13. Tufts               (11)
14. South Florida       (14)
15. MIT             (12)
16. Roger Williams  (17)
17. Texas A&M Galv  (15)
18. Kings Point     (18)
19. Navy                (19)
20. Old Dominion        (20)
Also receiving votes:
South Alabama

WOMEN               (prev rank)
1. Charleston         (1)
2. Yale               (2)
3. Brown              (3)
4. Boston Coll        (4)
5. Harvard            (5)
6. Stanford           (11)
7. Georgetown     (9)
8. Dartmouth          (8)
9. St. Mary's         (6)
10. Navy                (10)
11. Old Dominion        (7)
12. Eckerd              (12)
13. Hawaii              (14)
14. Tufts               (13)
15. South Florida       (15)
Also receiving votes:
UC/Irvine