2009-10 Women's Sailing

Sarah Lihan

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool St. Thomas Aquinas High School
  • Hometown Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Biography

2009-2010: First Team All-New England Skipper…NEISA Women’s sailors of the week with Elizabeth Brim 10/6/09, 10/12/09 and 3/31/10…All-American.

2008-2009: Second Team All-New England…NEISA Women’s Sailors of the Week with Tatyana Camejo 9/08…Seventh at New England Women’s Singlehanded Championships…Sailed on the winning team at the ICSA National Championships.

2007-2008: Sixth at New England Women’s Singlehanded Championships.

2006-2007: First at New England Women’s Singlehanded Championships…Seventh at National Singlehanded Championships.

Before Yale: Third at the Olympic Trials in the Laser Radial Class in 2007… 2006 U.S. Junior Women''s Singlehanded Champion…Member of the US team at the World Sailing Games in 2006…Lettered in sailing and swimming…Captain of the sailing team as a senior.

Residential College: Calhoun

Major: American Studies

Activities at Yale: General loafing

Favorite Food: Butter

Hobbies: Squash, cycling, fishing, swimming, running, reading, bronzing

Favorite thing about sailing for Yale: “The Yale Corinthian Yacht Club as a whole”