Fountainhead West

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The weather was amazing and the turnout exceeded our expectations—though when we first did the detailed planning for the New Year Event, it was hard to get past the thought of a winter storm. Nevertheless, we had 205 runners show up (the largest number this season without a JROTC presence), including a very special QOC veteran, Lieutenant General (Retired) Donny Wurster, who ended his US Air Force career as the Commander, Air Force Special Operations Command. He had been a very active QOC member and this meet was his first in 20 years. He could not get over how much orienteering has improved over that time.

This meet made maximum use of the area in the big horseshoe bend of the Occoquan also known as W. Fountainhead. As many already know, this is an excellent orienteering location, but access to the site requires using buses. It also requires the great cooperation we received from NOVA Parks. The staff—particularly Nancy Chamberlain and Brad Robinson—were very supportive, providing us access to the Kegley House (at the Start/Finish), working with residents along Wolf Run Road and with the police, and providing us overnight storage for supplies. We want to thank them for making us welcome!

I’d like to thank Victor Lin for designing a great set of courses, while using a minimum number of controls! Besides placing the controls, he also ported water out to the water points, a pretty important consideration when the temperatures suddenly spike. Victor demonstrated his adaptability when discovering that the main bridge over Wolf Run was moved downstream—he simply edited the map. Control layout in several of the NOVA sites, can be dangerous between September and March, because of the bow hunters. Victor wore bright yellow!

The holidays added suspense to getting volunteers for the New Year Event, but we had excellent response with the relatively short notice. All pitched in to give you a great 2019 New Year Event. As Laura and Aaron Linville posted after the Prince William Meet, it is a good idea for Meet Directors to tag team on successive meets. Laura and Aaron volunteered to handle registration, probably the most difficult task and did an excellent job of keeping the flow going. I also want to thank both Scott Sharp and Kris Beecroft, who continue to pitch in, meet in and meet out. And finally, we should thank Matt Knight and Jim Chaplin for their time—and patience—providing Beginner Instruction. This meet, we had 6 attendees.

In spite of keeping the number of controls used low, they were nevertheless quite scattered across the terrain. Many thanks to those who volunteered to go out to retrieve the controls, after an exhausting run: Charles Carrick, Mark Thomsen, David Onkst, Patrick Farley and Bill Wright. Patrick and Victor also took a turn at being ‘Lyft Operators’, taking stragglers back to the main parking lot.

And very special thanks to Valerie Meyer and Amy Louden for ‘going out on point’ to the Kegley House to: run the e-punch process, act as eyes and ears at the remote site, and keep count of those on and off the course, to detect stragglers. Their excellent work contributes a very valuable service to our club! (ask one of the veterans how this was done Last Century!)

We also want to thank Amy and Valerie for coordinating the ‘evacuation’ of people who missed the last bus (despite the warning to be out of the woods at 3PM. As she left, Valerie managed to bring 5 people and 2 dogs back to the main parking area.

Finally, this meet would not have been successful without the excellent coaching—and patience—that Charles Carrick provided, as well as taking care of a myriad of details that made this a great meet. Perhaps it is not the Super Bowl nor the Olympics, but a lot of volunteer effort goes into staging a meet like this. But if you had a great experience, you made it all worthwhile!

-John Organek, Meet Director

White

Course Length: 2 km

Course Climb: 65 m

Number of Controls: 8

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Kenneth McCoy		46:54
2	Debbie Fugate		52:36
3	Barbara Weathers		68:13
4	Stian and Julian Iliev	QOC	70:16
5	Luke Oliver	QOC	77:33
6	Rebecca Boone		81:01
7	Team Dinosaur & Heather & Thomas	QOC	82:31
8	Andrew Pfeiffer	QOC	100:06

Yellow

Course Length: 2.1 km

Course Climb: 80 m

Number of Controls: 9

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Josue Bringes	Patriots NJROTC	21:29
2	Michael Sandusky	FUMA	23:47
3	Emma Hafner		26:41
4	Christion Hunt	Patriots NJROTC	27:10
5	Evgeni Peev	QOC	28:02
6	Broyana Peeva	QOC	31:33
7	Solomon Mendoza	FUMA	31:39
8	Laura Linville	QOC	35:01
9	Julian Reinshagen	FUMA	35:35
10	Jacob Burton & Jane		40:31
11	Katerina Zambrana	QOC	46:42
12	Donna Ferguson Grp of 4	QOC	49:30
13	DamnStrubeMeyer		50:08
14	Kenneth Ellis & Yukiko	QOC	51:29
15	John & Matthew Pekarik		52:26
16	Tracy Nayar & Shan & Ethan & Miles		54:27
17	Stephen Hamilton		55:18
18	Brooke Oliver	QOC	55:34
19	Erik Gruner	QOC	56:28
20	Michael Bianchetta	QOC	58:43
21	Karla Hulett	QOC	59:24
22	Daniel Pedersen & Karen	QOC	61:00
23	Howell Desierto	QOC	62:11
24	Alexander Novikov		62:29
25	Melissa Bethancort Family 4		65:11
26	Beatri Bennett	QOC	69:03
27	Carolyn Phillips & Andrew		70:51
28	Francis Watermolen & Brandon	Patuxent NJROTC	73:42
29	Jim Sargent	QOC	75:18
30	Travis Coberly & Roscoe	QOC	76:52
31	Michael Hunter & Susanna		79:10
32	Peterson Tenley	QOC	82:55
33	James Chaplin	QOC	86:07
34	Virginia Whitestone	QOC	91:49
35	Mari Lundblad	QOC	DNF
35	Kristina Lundblad	QOC	DNF
35	Kevin Hunt		DNF

Orange

Course Length: 4.5 km

Course Climb: 115 m

Number of Controls: 11

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Maxwell Janke	Patriots NJROTC	48:25
2	Chris Zbrozek	QOC	66:23
3	Mary Schmidt	Patriots NJROTC	66:54
4	Justin Jackson	Patuxent NJROTC	72:28
5	Dylan Bishop	Patuxent NJROTC	76:54
6	Adam Remsberg	Patriots NJROTC	80:22
7	Bobbie Verdegaal	QOC	85:45
8	Andy Bennett	QOC	88:51
9	Mike Costas	Patuxent NJROTC	90:31
10	Joe Pickerall	Patuxent NJROTC	97:54
11	Nicholas Turza	QOC	101:15
12	Reiko Rager	QOC	102:15
13	Steve Kabler		106:50
14	Steve Van Winkle	QOC	107:19
15	Thomas Teifke		113:48
16	Leon & Kim Torbert	QOC	124:36
17	Georgina Walmsley	QOC	125:14
18	Emilia Lundblad	QOC	128:08
19	Tyler & Jeffrey Weathers		132:52
20	Judith Critzer		138:44
21	Michael DePrenger & Kenny & Jared		149:20
22	Ginny Quam	QOC	155:08
23	Tim McCormick	QOC	156:37
24	Paul Sherlock & Jack	QOC	159:34
25	John Ashley & Annabelle & Griffin	QOC	162:04
26	Camille Izdepski	Patuxent NJROTC	201:23
27	Gabby Nathan	Patuxent NJROTC	201:33
28	Daniel Lopez	Patuxent NJROTC	216:07
29	Ayden Becker	QOC	DNF
29	Solomon Mendoza	FUMA	DNF
29	Alex & Steph		DNF
29	Julian Reinshagen	FUMA	DNF
29	Daniel Pedersen	QOC	DNF
29	Miguel & Victims		DNF
29	Tingjun olivia C MA	QOC	DNF
29	Chip Becker	QOC	DNF
29	Michael Sandusky	FUMA	DNF
29	Richard Paladino	QOC	DNF (80:12)
29	Tom Walsh	QOC	DNF (86:57)
29	Arthur Cantrell	QOC	DNF (87:32)
29	David Collins		DNF (180:44)

Brown

Course Length: 4.5 km

Course Climb: 150 m

Number of Controls: 11

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Peggy Dickison	OK	57:01
2	Dennis Doherty	QOC	58:37
3	John Baker	QOC	70:23
4	Michael Patterson	QOC	72:00
5	Greg Lennon	QOC	72:30
6	Paul Hession	QOC	75:32
7	Bob Fawcettt	QOC	78:36
8	Kathleen Lennon	QOC	80:48
9	Oleg Volonsevich	QOC	86:00
10	Katia Volnosevich	QOC	86:06
11	Elena Semenova		86:26
12	Donny Wurster		86:49
13	Gary Smith	QOC	88:53
14	Edward Enson	QOC	92:23
15	Eugene Vasilchenko	QOC	101:34
16	Gary Quam	QOC	102:54
17	Rob Briber	QOC	104:29
18	David Rager	QOC	108:19
19	Warren Preston	QOC	111:01
20	Tavia Sullens	QOC	112:27
21	Cecilia Landers	QOC	119:35
22	Steve Mones	QOC	122:39
23	Nyall Meredith	QOC	130:44
24	Vanessa Lightfoot	Patuxent NJROTC	145:15
25	Jeremy Lucier & Derek	QOC	149:20
26	Sean Ford		150:15
27	Beth Ann Stasiowski	QOC	159:18
28	Florence Tan	QOC	164:56
29	Don Ames	QOC	182:33
30	Caleb Withers	Patuxent NJROTC	DNF
30	Lais Cunha		DNF
30	Man Nguyen	QOC	DNF
30	Amy Louden	QOC	DNF
30	Mark Thomsen	QOC	DNF
30	Allison Brown	QOC	MP (69:39)
30	Eugene Tcipnjatov	QOC	MP (86:14)
30	Stephen Doherty	QOC	MP (94:50)
30	Dorina Watermolen & Laura	QOC	MP (141:28)

Green

Course Length: 6.2 km

Course Climb: 165 m

Number of Controls: 12

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Turner Leigh		54:07
2	Mark Walmsley	CVOC	60:27
3	Gavin Weise	QOC	64:47
4	Zack Kuder	Patriots NJROTC	65:32
5	Jared Silk	QOC	67:08
6	Aaron Linville	QOC	70:47
7	Jan Merka	QOC	74:44
8	Therese Hohl	DVOA	74:46
9	Martins Jonass		77:18
10	Charles Carrick	QOC	78:37
11	Rob Whitestone	QOC	78:57
12	Tom Wells	QOC	82:21
13	John Miller	QOC	85:20
14	Hideharu Tanaka	QOC	85:30
15	Sam Listwak	QOC	85:47
16	Tom Strat	QOC	86:30
17	Nicholas Schmidt	Patriots NJROTC	88:21
18	Bill Wright	QOC	89:41
19	Jody Landers	QOC	90:57
20	Corey Cutshall	Patriots NJROTC	91:35
21	Kris Beecroft	QOC	92:20
22	Francis Hogle	QOC	94:28
23	Phillip Wadsworth	QOC	95:37
24	Tim Piergalski	QOC	96:43
25	Brennan Stone	FUMA	97:10
26	Doris Lee	QOC	99:01
27	Roman Enson	QOC	106:22
28	Chris Merlo	FUMA	111:55
29	Scott Sharp	QOC	113:12
30	Dinara Usmanova		114:41
31	Matt Holman	QOC	116:12
32	Sarah Sorenson & matthew manopoli	QOC	117:39
33	Don Fish	QOC	118:30
34	Frantisek Brabec	QOC	119:38
35	Paul Collinson & Zephren	QOC	124:58
36	Jeff Seaton		128:09
37	River Danvers & Josh	Patuxent NJROTC	129:33
38	William Schork		130:15
39	Craig Shelden	QOC	138:01
40	David Simpson	QOC	144:11
41	Greg Prouty		145:38
42	Suzanne Shelden	QOC	150:10
43	John Vincent	Patuxent NJROTC	DNF
43	Wendy W	QOC	DNF
43	Will Leigh		DNF
43	David Patrick	QOC	DNF (168:50)

Red

Course Length: 7.7 km

Course Climb: 225 m

Number of Controls: 15

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Iliana Ilieva	QOC	71:58
2	Rick Oliver	QOC	76:14
3	Nadim Ahmed	QOC	81:36
4	Kim Jepsen	QOC	83:29
5	Jack Anderson		92:24
6	Alexis Merka	QOC	108:12
7	Patrick Farley	QOC	114:18
8	Michael Chaney	QOC	116:34
9	David Middleton	FUMA	122:05
10	Zachary Desmond	QOC	167:39
11	Travis Siehndel	QOC	167:44
12	Tom Nolan	QOC	DNF
12	Scott Bey & Adrienne		DNF
12	Eugueni Belyi	QOC	DNF (174:30)
12	Dagmar Merkova	QOC	MP (124:18)

Blue

Course Length: 9.1 km

Course Climb: 240 m

Number of Controls: 20

Place	Name	Club	Time
1	Lacho Iliev	QOC	63:36
2	Boris Granovskiy	QOC	71:45
3	Joesph Barrett	QOC	72:43
4	Ken Walker Jr	CSU	75:31
5	Peter Gehriger		77:02
6	Jon Torrance	QOC	77:49
7	Ted Good	QOC	82:15
8	Videlin Aleksiev	QOC	92:28
9	Jesse Spangler		97:01
10	Yuriy Bulka		98:51
11	Michael Stasiowski	QOC	105:34
12	Matthew Stout	QOC	108:48
13	David Onkst	QOC	128:29
14	William Chesarek	QOC	131:16
15	Matthew Knight	QOC	138:06
16	Mary Foster	QOC	170:14
17	Blaire Bingham	QOC	DNF
17	Mark Montague		DNF (156:01)
17	Andrey Starikovskiy		MP
17	Ben Roberts	QOC	MP (132:36)

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).