Oct. 28, 2005

NORFOLK, VA - Mitch Brindley and the ODU Sailing Monarchs welcome teams from up and down the east coast to the ODU Sailing Center October 29-30th for the War Memorial Regatta.

The competition will feature a series of FJ's racing in A and B divisions. Racing is set to kick off Saturday at 9:00am. Several teams are scheduled to compete in the regatta including no. 5 Saint Mary's, no. 6 Kings Point, no. 8 Hobart and Smith, and no. 9 Georgetown University, each ranked by collegesailing.org in coed rankings provided by Sailing World's coaches panel. Old Dominion rounds out the list at the no. 20 spot for coed teams.

Charles Higgins (Arlington, TX), Jennifer Adams (Montclair, VA) will race for Old Dominion in A division. David Tunnicliffe (Pittsburgh, PA), Jaclyn Finney (Hampton, VA), and Bryan Otis will race in B division with Bobby Noonan (Fort Lauderdale, FL) as an alternate skipper.

ODU will also compete in the ISCA Sloops taking place this weekend in Richland, Michigan.

Sailing World College Rankings Top 20

Coed
1. Boston College
2. University of Hawaii
3. USC
4. Harvard University
5. St. Mary's
6. Kings Point
7. Yale University
8. Hobart/Wm Smith
9. Georgetown University
10. UC/Irvine
11. Tufts University
12. College of Charleston
13. U. S. Naval Academy
14. South Florida
15. Brown University
16. Stanford University
17. Dartmouth College
18. Connecticut College
19. Roger Williams
20. Old Dominion University
Also receiving votes:UC/Santa Barbara

For results of these regattas and more info on ODU sailing please visit: http://odusports.collegesports.com/sports/c-sail/sched/oldd-c-sail-sched.html