I hope this hasn't been posted yet. I did a search on the forum and couldn't find anything on this subject.

Anyway I was perusing the net one day when I came across this little tid bit. The competition was a month ago but I thought some might be interested.

My wife's a Gator and I'm a Boat Schooler(USNA '84 grad for you non-navy types) so I was kind of proud we could best the mighty Gators in the team competitions.:D

Enjoy the read.....

Justine Whipple of the United States Naval Academy and Kevin Collington of the University of Florida won the individual women's and men's titles at the 2007 USA Triathlon Collegiate National Championship Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Whipple completed the Olympic distance event in 2:02:44, with a margin of 3 minutes 36 seconds ahead of runner-up Katie Ellis of Arizona State University (2:06:20), and another 2 minutes and one second ahead of third place Amanda Felder of UC San Diego (2:08:21).

The men's race was far closer, with Collington's 1:52:07 finish 33 seconds ahead of runner-up Steven Sexton of the University of California-Berkeley (1:52:40), and third place Ethan Brown of the University of Michigan another 14 seconds back in 1:52:54.

Nearly 1,000 athletes representing 77 colleges and universities from 43 states competed under sunny skies at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. Almost 100,00 spectators, admittedly drawn to the home town Crimson Tide's spring football scrimmage, were on hand at USA Triathlon's largest ever collegiate championship.

Led by Whipple's second straight individual title, the U.S. Naval Academy also won the men's and women's team titles. The Naval Academy top women finishers totaled 27 points, with runner-up UC Berkeley at 40, and third place University of Florida at 44.

Whipple's first place led the Naval Academy women, followed by Amy Alexander's 14th place (2:17:24), Melisa Hough's 23rd place (2:20:45) and Morgan Kitchen's 36th place (2:24:00).

Runner-up UC Berkeley women were led by Marie Claire Lamb's 9th place (2:15:04), Lindsey Dal Porto's 22nd place (2:20:28), Robin Shaffer's 26th place (2:21:36), and Kelly Dunleavy's 42nd place (2:25:10).

Alexandria Lechner led the third place University of Florida women with an 11th place finish (2:16:06), followed by Kristin Donahue's 20th place (2:20:04), Jennifer Sanchez's 29th place (2:21:55) and Elly Kabboord's 43rd place (2:25:40).

The United States Naval Academy men took a narrow team victory over runner-up Michigan State University 49 to 52. The third place United States Military Academy men were just one point back with a total of 53, and fourth place UC-Berkeley just two points out of the medals with 55.

Derek Oskutis led the winning U.S. Naval Academy men with a 6th place finish (1:53:46), followed by Thomas Brown's 8th place (1:54:21), Ashley Preston's 38th place (2:02:57) and Erik Bates' 54th (2:05:21).

John Paul Severin led Michigan State with an 11th place finish (1:56:05), followed by Aaron Bachman's 15th (1:58:13), Matt Inch's 30th (2:01:24), and Gabe Harner's 48th (2:04:40).

Nicholas Dason led the United States Military Academy men's team to third with his 10th place finish (1:55:13), followed by Nicholas Vandam's 14th (1:57:36), Nicholas Sterghos's 33rd place (2:02:12) and Robert Sherry's 73rd place (2:07:28).

The Naval Academy also took the coed team title with 76 points. UC Berkeley finished second with 95 points and perennial collegiate triathlon power University of Colorado-Boulder took its only medal of the 2007 meet, earning a third place finish with 137 points.

Another 75 athletes competed in the alumni division, won by April Gellatly of the University of Georgia (2:18:49) and Bruce Gennari of the University of Alabama (1:57:59).

The University of Colorado-Boulder took the Team Spirit award, but instead presented it to the 20 members of the team from Virginia Tech, who had finished 21st of 34 teams in the general classification. Prior to the triathlon, a moment of silence was observed for the Virginia Tech students and faculty who were killed and injured in the tragic shooting on their Blacksburg, Virginia campus on April 16.

USA Triathlon Collegiate Nationals
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
April 21, 2007
S 1.5k/ B 40 k/ R 10k

Individual results

Women

1. Justine Whipple (US Naval Academy) 2:02:44
2. Katie Ellis (Arizona State) 2:06:21
3. Amanda Fisher (UC-San Diego) 2:08:21
4. Leah Larson (University of Colorado-Boulder) 2:11:27
5. Michelle Wedemeyer (UC-Irvine) 2:11:36
6. Alexandra Forest (Cal State University Northridge) 2:12:39
7. Laura Wadden (Stanford) 2:14:02
8. Chris Tommerdahl (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) 2:14:54
9. Marie Claire Lamb (UC-Berkeley) 2:15:04
10. Erica Drennen (The Ohio State University) 2:15:49

Men

1. Kevin Collington (University of Florida) 1:52:07
2. Steven Sexton (UC-Berkeley) 1:52:40
3. Ethan Brown (University of Michigan) 1:52:54
4. Eric Bean (University of Wisconsin) 1:53:19
5. Andrew Hodges (University of Virginia) 1:53:26
6. Derek Oskutis (USNA) 1:53:46
7. Tommy Rushing (University of Texas-Austin) 1:53:59
8. Thomas Brown (USNA) 1:54:21
9. Tony White (University of Kentucky) 1:54:52
10. Nicholas Dason (US Military Academy) 1:55:13

Team results

Women

1. US Naval Academy 27
2. UC-Berkeley 40
3. University of Florida 44
4. Stanford University 55
5. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 58
6. University of Montana 58
7. University of Colorado-Boulder 68
8. University of Wisconsin 77
9. US Military Academy 102
10. UC-Santa Barbara 117

Men

1. US Naval Academy 49
2. Michigan State 52
3. US Military Academy 53
4. UC-Berkeley 55
5. University of Colorado-Boulder 69
6. University of Virginia 77
7. University of Wisconsin 90
8. Purdue University 98
9. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 102
10. UC-Santa Barbara 107

Coed

1. US Naval Academy 76
2. UC-Berkeley 95
3. University of Colorado-Boulder 137
4. University of Florida 154
5. US Military Academy 155
6. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo 160
7. University of Wisconsin 167
8. University of Montana 210
9. UC-Santa Barbara 224
10. Michigan State University 229