Alumni Win Rolex Yachtsman Awards

Terry Hutchinson ’90 and Anna Tunnicliffe ’05 were named U.S. Sailing’s 2008 Rolex Yachtsman and Yachtswoman of the Year. U.S. Sailing and sponsor Rolex present the annual awards to recognize outstanding on-the-water competitive achievement of an individual man and woman. Hutchinson and Tunnicliffe were honored and presented with engraved Rolex watches Feb. 27 at the New York Yacht Club.

Hutchinson, of Annapolis, Md., earned Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) All-America honors four times at ODU, and was twice recognized as College Sailor of the Year. Members of the selection panel remarked that in 2008 he “redefined himself” after he “emerged from the America’s Cup to be an awesome fleet racer.”

Tunnicliffe, of Plantation, Fla., won the Olympic gold medal in Laser Radial last summer. In 2005, she was named the Quantum Female College Sailor of the Year. That recognition capped her sailing career at ODU, where she earned ICSA All-America honors three straight years. Tunnicliffe was the unanimous choice for the Rolex award.