Six Bulls Named to ICSA 2024-25 All-Academic Sailing Group

TAMPA, Fla., September 5, 2025 – The University of South Florida’s Women’s Sailing workforce is proud to announce that six of its sailors have been acknowledged on the Inter Collegiate Sailing Association’s 2024-2025 All-Academic Sailing workforce. Representing USF are Kalea Woodard, Emma Shakespeare, Catherine Brennan, Kay Brunsvold, Heidi Hicks, and Madisen Hamai.
 
The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) strives to spotlight junior and senior sailors who participated in no less than seven regattas and maintained a cumulative GPA of three.3 or greater on the 4.0 scale. USF’s honorees mirror power and depth throughout all disciplines, putting them among the many 261 student-athletes who acquired this honor for his or her profitable season.
 
The Bulls positioned as some of the represented applications from the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (SAISA).
 
Seniors Woodard and Hicks have now earned all-academic workforce placements in back-to-back years, bringing their expertise and management to the roster and shutting out their careers at USF on a excessive observe. Both had been essential to USF’s success and offered stability in high-pressure competitors.
 
Shakespeare, Brennan, Brunsvold, and Hamai collected the accolade for the primary time, serving to USF keep its nationwide presence and proceed constructing momentum for the way forward for this system.
 
With six student-athletes acknowledged, USF Women’s Sailing reinforces its dedication to each tutorial and athletic excellence, proving they will compete and succeed on the highest ranges each on and off the water.

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About USF Sailing

The USF crusing program has reached the nationwide finals in 11 of the final 12 years. The Bulls completed within the prime 10 through the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The crusing workforce is predicated out of St. Petersburg and has been led since 2014 by head coach Allison Jolly, a former USA Olympian and Gold Medalist, 2016 Florida Sports Hall of Fame inductee and 2019 U.S. National Sailing Hall of Fame inductee.

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