The four-member Sailing Team from the U.S. and a coach will travel to Izmir, Turkey, for the World University Games which will be held August 11-21. The U.S. will be represented by a total of four sailors in two Olympic classes: two competitors each in the Laser (a singlehanded boat for men) and the Laser Radial (a singlehanded boat for women). The four sailors named to the 2005 U.S. World University Games Team - Sailing are Andrew Campbell (San Diego, Calif.); Anna Tunnicliffe (Norfolk, Va.); Brendan Fahey (Kingston, Wash.); and Jennifer Gervais (Charleston, S.C.). The Team will be accompanied by coach Gary Bodie (Hampton, Va.), US SAILING’s High Performance Director and Head Coach of the US Sailing Team.

Organized every two years by the International University Sports Federation (FISU), the World University Games bring together thousands of top-level collegiate athletes from around the world to compete in at least 10 sports (the number of sports fluctuates every Games). This year, 15 sports will participate in the Games, marking the second time that sailing is part of the Summer World University Games since FISU organized the first Games in 1959. USA sailors won a bronze medal at the 1998 Summer World University Games when they were held in Palma, Spain.

About the Team-members:
Andrew Campbell is a current member of the US Sailing Team and a junior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. majoring in International Affairs. At age 21, Campbell already has numerous impressive singlehanded sailing titles to his name, including 2002 Youth World Champion, U.S. Youth Champion (2000-2002), College Singlehanded Champion, High School Singlehanded Champion, among others. Campbell is a member of the Georgetown University Sailing Team and has been a College All-American every year since he entered college.

Like Campbell, Anna Tunnicliffe is a current member of the US Sailing Team. Tunnicliffe, a recent graduate from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Decision Sciences, has been competing in regattas at home and abroad. In June, she was named College Sailor of the Year by the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association and has been a College Women’s All-American throughout her college sailing career. This year, Tunnicliffe was also named a College Coed All-American, a feat very few other women have accomplished.

Brendan Fahey, who will be a senior at the University of Washington this fall, has competed in several national and international regattas in the last few years. A member of University of Washington’s sailing team, Fahey trains three days week with the team and competes in regattas on the weekends. Fahey is majoring in Earth and Space Science.

Jennifer Gervais plans to graduate in 2006 from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where she is a member of the sailing team. The team finished 11th overall at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association’s Women’s Dinghy Championships in June. Gervais is majoring in Religious Studies with a cross disciplinary study in African and African-American Diaspora.

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