Lake Needwood

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QOC members and guests awoke to the best weather of the spring season on April 9th and came out in big numbers to enjoy the challenges of Russ Damtoft’s impressively designed Lake Needwood courses. 59 controls! That has to be some sort of a record for a local meet. We had 147 starts and gave close to 200 people the wonderful opportunity to enjoy our sport at its finest.
You can’t process 200 people and 59 controls without a lot of topnotch volunteers stepping in to help out, so kudos and thanks to all who helped. They include:

• Russ Damtoft for spending many hours in the woods devising methods to get us lost.
• Nadim Ahmed who made the map that Russ used so effectively.
• Tom Nolan for helping to set the courses that Russ designed.
• Greg Lennon for helping to set the last few controls the morning of the event.
• Sean Fish, Erin Bzymek, Ben Roberts, and Daniel Heimgartner for processing all of the people who were so anxious to get into the woods.
• Kathleen & Greg Lennon, who sent all the first timers out onto the trail with just enough knowledge that they could find their way back again, and without so much that they felt overwhelmed.
• Amy Louden and her crew, which included Michael Wood, Allison Brown and John Vincent, did their usual great job at the e-punch station, and their leader Valerie Meyer stayed up late printing maps when she should have been packing for her trip to New Zealand.

And at the end of the day when everyone was exhausted and ready to collapse in a heap, there were still 59 controls that had to be retrieved from the woods. We had a large and efficient team of our most experienced orienteers volunteer to help with that massive job. They included: Jon Torrance, Kim and Anne Jepsen, Michael Dickey, Frantisek Brabec, Chris Gross, Eugene Tcipnjatov, Tom Smerling and Eva Mateeva, who didn’t even run a course, but came to help with control pick up anyway. That is the kind of dedication that helps to make QOC the best orienteering club in the US.
Finally, thanks to my wife Sarah for setting up our HQ, buying all the snacks, helping with registration and making sure I kept somewhat organized.
-Don Fish, Event Director

White

Course Length: 1.6 km

Course Climb: 40 m

Number of Controls: 10

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Daniel&Matyas Minar	QOC	20:11
2	Shaun Urbina	QOC	29:49
3	Adam Smith & Yana & Liam		32:20
4	Evan & Emily Wirzburger	QOC	33:35
5	Summer Oliver	QOC	40:39
6	Mary Starich		41:52
7	Damian Kreske & Miles		42:29
8	Brian & Odin Briggman Family 4	QOC	43:48
9	Ksenia Ulyanova	QOC	43:58
10	Elizabeth Kemp & Joe & Joey & Serena		46:00
11	Peta Christianson & Lissy		46:52
12	Lena Gordiyenko & Misha		47:20
13	Eva Bousbouras		48:20
14	Carl Shaia & Jacob		52:34
15	Monika Lencesova		79:21

Yellow

Course Length: 2.3 km

Course Climb: 60 m

Number of Controls: 12

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Sean Fish & Erin	QOC	30:48
2	Patrick Hession	QOC	32:08
3	Brian Vent	QOC	32:24
4	Mihai Sirbu & Mandeep	QOC	37:28
5	Shaun Urbina & Shaun II & Shane		40:25
6	Damian Kreske & Miles		47:45
7	Max Ahmed	QOC	47:49
8	Tyler Day		48:23
9	Eric & Cambria Lyness	QOC	50:28
10	John Gersh		55:22
11	Noelle OToole & Coleman & Sean & Sarah	QOC	62:17
12	Julie Hudson	QOC	64:31
13	Michael Knott & Suzzie Thomas		64:43
14	Lou Novak & Mike	QOC	70:47
15	Tammy Wiser & Lisa Flatley		72:28
16	Lisa Simpson & David		78:28
17	Tenley Peterson	QOC	83:26
18	Karen Butler		86:57
19	Mary Peyton Miller & Isaac	QOC	87:07
20	Leo Sur		88:03
21	Kin Kwok & Katherine Sundstrom		MP
21	Brendan Perkins	QOC	MP (39:53)
21	Cate Gogol & Rob Carroll	QOC	MP (42:58)
21	Ariana Dickey	QOC	MP (55:22)
21	John Davis		MP (59:57)

Orange

Course Length: 4 km

Course Climb: 140 m

Number of Controls: 14

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Inara Granovskiy	QOC	65:23
2	Andrew Keirn	QOC	71:42
3	Mark Biesiada		72:31
4	John Van Wie		80:24
5	Glenn Massey & Dianna	QOC	87:11
6	Father & Son Linville	QOC	93:02
7	Cecilia Landers	QOC	98:49
8	Caleb Withers		115:36
9	Neal Polzin & Barbara Hemstreet		116:51
10	Akinori Naito & Shingo & Midori & Kgoka		116:57
11	Rob Whitestone	QOC	120:44
12	Dave Marriott & Michele Thomas		137:00
13	Ashley OConnor & Allison & Campbell & Bart	QOC	140:55
14	William Bardin & Hui	QOC	147:32
15	Gerson Monjaras	QOC	157:06
16	David Frank III		DNF
16	Indy Linus	QOC	MP (108:28)

Brown

Course Length: 3.3 km

Course Climb: 100 m

Number of Controls: 10

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Gavin Weise	QOC	34:03
2	Dagmar Merkova	QOC	38:25
3	Jana Seidlova	QOC	40:58
4	Nathan Brand		48:31
5	Andrew Keirn		52:24
6	Jason Porter	QOC	55:27
7	Alexis Merka	QOC	55:38
8	Rob Briber	QOC	55:46
9	Gary & Ginny Quam	QOC	58:33
10	Patricia Mace	QOC	61:43
11	Edward Enson	QOC	62:11
12	Andy Gerald		62:50
13	Jade Goh	QOC	63:04
14	Sarah Komm	QOC	63:31
15	Michael Perkins	QOC	65:33
16	Paul Jacobson		69:17
17	Paul Collinson	QOC	72:58
18	Jennifer Werner	QOC	74:34
19	Hannah Collins & Ezra Harper		80:29
20	John Wirzburger	QOC	81:38
21	Josh Bascon		85:03
22	Boyan Onyshkevych	QOC	85:07
23	Fred Dolder	GAOC	89:56
24	Paul Grosser		93:57
25	Anshu Saksena	QOC	95:41
26	KC Dowdell Family	QOC	97:52
27	Beth Ann Stasiowski	QOC	102:13
28	Amy Louden	QOC	119:35
29	Suzanne Izzo	QOC	173:44
30	Karel Seidl	QOC	MP (70:00)
30	Adam Dembicki & Caral		MP (126:25)

Green

Course Length: 4.8 km

Course Climb: 175 m

Number of Controls: 14

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Rick Oliver	QOC	51:19
2	Gavin Weise	QOC	58:42
3	Greg Lennon	QOC	63:57
4	Michael Rodrigues		65:02
5	Joshua Sanchez		65:27
6	JP Landers	QOC	67:38
7	Luke Mitchell	QOC	68:38
8	Jan Merka	QOC	74:38
9	Anne Jepsen	QOC	77:50
10	John J Miller	QOC	78:24
11	Kathleen Lennon	QOC	80:03
12	John Blank	QOC	80:43
13	Gogi Kalka	QOC	81:46
14	Greg Palardy	QOC	83:59
15	Nobuyuki Tsukahe		84:06
16	Ryan Mukherjee	QOC	84:33
17	Frantisek Brabec	QOC	86:12
18	Bill Vienna	QOC	86:17
19	Patrick Farley	QOC	86:22
20	Paul Hession	QOC	87:11
21	Max Linder		88:02
22	Justin Duhe & Patrick		91:21
23	Jody Landers	QOC	91:22
24	Ryan Collins		92:24
25	Mark Mace	QOC	92:45
26	Tom Smerling	QOC	96:16
27	Matthew Hawthorne		99:08
28	Allison Brown	QOC	100:13
29	John Vincent	QOC	101:16
30	Bryan Singer	QOC	107:59
31	Thomas Blank	QOC	117:03
32	Michelle Svoboda	QOC	133:43
33	Mike Newman	QOC	157:05
34	KS	QOC	190:04
35	Shannon Costello	QOC	DNF (87:34)
35	James Weber & Ethan & Jason	QOC	MP (116:21)

Red

Course Length: 7.8 km

Course Climb: 260 m

Number of Controls: 22

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Chris Gross	DVOA	72:55
2	Matthew Halverson	QOC	86:24
3	Daniel Quinn	QOC	86:31
4	Kim Jepsen	QOC	91:08
5	Andrew Komm	QOC	95:43
6	Jared Silk	QOC	96:14
7	John Rosicky	QOC	103:34
8	John Baker	QOC	113:42
9	Ben Roberts	QOC	125:02
10	Michael Chaney & Jameson	QOC	185:06
11	John Organek	QOC	216:13
12	Wendy W	QOC	DNF
12	Boris Granovskiy	QOC	DNF (54:51)
12	Anders Sundstrom		DNF (97:27)

Blue

Course Length: 10.3 km

Course Climb: 415 m

Number of Controls: 27

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Jon Torrance	QOC	86:57
2	Adam Smith	QOC	112:15
3	Ted Good	QOC	112:34
4	Michael Dickey	QOC	117:27
5	Michael Wood	QOC	119:28
6	Nadim Ahmed	QOC	120:21
7	Michael Berry	QOC	129:58
8	Tom Strat	QOC	179:43
9	Eugene Tcipnjatov	QOC	DNF
9	Charles Carrick	QOC	DNF (147:51)
9	Paul Nelson	QOC	DNF (205:31)

Abbreviations: DNF = did not finish, MP = mispunch, NC = non-competitive (usually 2nd course or course setter/vetter), OT = overtime (more than 3 hours or returned after course closing time).