After winning the United States Olympic trials in the Laser class by just a few feet, Andrew Campbell (SFS ’06) was well out of the running once he got to the Olympic competition in Beijing.

Sophomore shortstop Sam Peters played all 53 games for Georgetown last year, leaving her mark on the Hilltop as soon as she stepped foot on it.

She played in all 56 this year and left her mark on the national scene, as she won the Division I all-independent player of the year award.

Peters said it was a surprise that she won — and that there were awards at all.

It’s not quite an Olympic training session, but Andrew Campbell (SFS ’06), has been practicing with Georgetown, helping his alma mater ready for three national championships regattas while preparing himself for the Beijing Olympics.

Just as John B.L. Soule wrote in 1851, “Go West, young man and grow up with the country,” the Hoyas took a long trip to Long Beach, Calif., and moved closer to the top of the sailing world — or, at least, the country.

Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of the shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Va.

But the day marked countless other anniversaries as well, according to Andrew Goddard, whose son Colin was shot several times by Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho and survived.

In South Dakota, Herseths have been holding office for years.

Ralph Herseth was the state’s 21st governor from 1959 to 1961; his wife, Lorna, was the Mount Rushmore State’s Secretary of State in the 1970s; and Lars Herseth, their son, served in the state legislature from the mid-1970s through 1996.

One week after qualifying for the national championships in team racing, Georgetown upset No. 1 St. Mary’s in the MAISA fleet race championships. The races were held at Hobart and William Smith College in Geneva, N.Y.

At WGTB, it has always been about the music. Long a center point of artistic individuality and underground, lesser known tunes, WGTB has undergone many transitions in its rock and roll history. Now hoping to shed its former reputation as an “indie only” station, WGTB is looking toward the future and the possibility of attracting a new class of listeners.

With one more league win now than it had all of last season, Georgetown lives to fight another day for a Big East tournament berth.

The Hoyas (14-12, 4-9) opened up an eight-point lead in the first half and never looked back, using their advantage in the paint to down South Florida 66-56 Saturday afternoon in McDonough Gymnasium.

Georgetown could not stop Allie Quigley all night. The DePaul senior scored the first seven points of the game on her way to a season-high 36 points and missed just six of her 21 shots. But for all her offense, it was just one steal by the guard that killed the Hoyas’ comeback hopes.