Stanford Score-O'
December 7, 1996
This was the first year we held the BAOC Social at Stanford
University. The new location provided a tremendous variety of
orienteering courses and a larger facility for the social. We had
courses set in wilderness and campus areas for day and night
competitions. The campus courses included the first BAOC trail'O
course (perhaps the first in the western US) designed for
wheelchair access.
With my time pretty much taken up with other tasks before and
during the A-meet, Nancy Lindeman and I had barely two weeks to
plan and organize this event. Despite all Nancy's help, we still
needed lots of help from club members on the day of the event to
make things happen. There were over 120 controls to hang, a
start'O map to make and copy, clinics to prepare for, a social to
set up, and events to run. Many thanks to everybody who helped. It
couldn't have happened without you.
Having learned how trail'O courses were set up only 36 hours
before the event, I had little time to design the course. As
a result, there were a couple of errors in the course and we
gave everyone credit for those sites. As it turned out, there was
a lot of interest in the course. Had we not needed so much help,
more people would have tried the course.
For those unfamiliar with trail'O courses, these courses are
designed for participants using wheelchairs. The participants are
not timed on the course and need to follow set routes to each
control site. At each site, they need to select the correct
control from multiple controls set on similar features in
different orientations (north, south, east, or west sides of
different features). Orienteers are ranked by the number of
correct guesses they make. On some trail'O courses, orienteers are
timed at each site as they try to determine which control is the
correct one.
Other problems at this event included two controls not set up when
the first people went out on the orange course (sorry!) and
competition for parking with attendees for an unexpected arts-and-
crafts fair. We'll have to provide alternatives in the future.
There were no problems with the rest of the courses except
that we had to eliminate a couple controls from a far corner
of the campus closed that day for maintenance. It didn't
matter as everybody took those controls off their maps and
nobody got to more than 27 of the 38 controls. We were set
for the best and fastest orienteers.
The social was a great success. There was lots of food, lots
of time to talk about courses, and lots of time to meet other
orienteers. The huge room was filled with grazing orienteers.
After eating, some people attended a review of the A-meet courses,
some watched a video of BAOC members at the Colorado multiday
event, and others talked about their orienteering experiences
throughout the past year.
While people finished their meals, Evan Custer gave out the
annual BAOC Service Award to Bob Cooley for his super human
contribution to the creation, printing, storage, and delivery of
BAOC maps over the years. Bob's contributions have also included
personal funding to develop maps, finding housing for mappers, and
constantly upgrading the technology used to create the maps.
There are numerous other people to thank for the success
of this event. They include:
Assistant Director Nancy Lindeman
Social Director Stephanie Maclean
Registration Ev and Jean Beuerman,
Debbie Friederichs,
Steve Beuerman
Campus Arrangements Lans Taylor
Event Director's Clinic Gary Kraght
Intermediate Clinic Lans Taylor
Beginner Clinics Marsha Jacobs,
Jean Beuerman
Photocopying errands Mike Poulsen
Control set up Nancy Lindeman,
Lans Taylor,
Mike Poulsen,
Gary Kraght,
Dwight and Joe Freund,
Meg Gurstner,
Alan Glendining,
Ev Beuerman
Starts Mike Poulsen,
Nancy Lindeman,
and others
Finishes Josh Friederichs,
Nick Corsano,
Esther Heller
MikePoulsen
Results (night) Alan Glendinning,
Meg Gerstner
Control pickup Tapio Karras,
Bruce Bassett,
Nancy Lindeman
A-meet Course Review Evan Custer and others
Video Tapio Karras
Cleanup and countless tasks Marsha Jacobs,
Nancy Lindeman,
Aileen Abernathy,
Steve Beuerman,
Mike Poulsen,
countless others
Results (127 people, 64 entries):
White Course
1 Perry, Chris, Andrew McCarty,
Jeff and Doug Jahns 28:49
2 Andrea Stranad, Heather Browning 29:40
3 Laura and Susan Gravens, Jonathan Michaels 32:36
4 Frank and Daniel San Felice,
Red and Ryan Sinfield 34:32
5 Bonnie Janssen 38:55
5 Eric and Robby Kruger,
Donald and Brian Inouye 38:55
6 Linn, Ian, George Haddock 39:22
7 Bill Ashworth, Ryan Wackerman,
Pierson Clair, Michael Buerger 40:32
8 Roberta, Kristen, and Garrett Pitsenbarger 40:38
9 Leslie Bone, Chris and Karrie Garrett 42:12
10 Karla Martin, Lauren Rosario, Brynn Elms 60:37
11 Julia Zaks 61:05
12 Janet Elms, Michelle Steinmetz,
Molly Gingars, Cori Perdue 63:31
-- Lauren Low, Naomi Obana, Heather Garrett DNF
-- Barbara Blanke DNF
-- Helen Aynsley, Claudia Pesci DNF
Yellow Course
1 Rebecca Higgerson, Brian Johnson 37:43
2 Bruce and Sara Gravens 52:04
3 Ev and Jean Beuerman 61:04
4 Galina Shakhnovsky 65:31
5 M and P Rabuzzi, A, R, and J Fisher 87:36
6 Yahoska Rodriguez and Claire Kelley 94:34
Orange Course (two controls set late)
1 William Rassieur 45:30
2 Marsha Jacobs 45:32
3 Aileen Abernathy 46:48
4 Ramana and Lakshmi Yermani 48:45
5 Andrew Nicholson, Kniq Keller 58:13
6 Jun Wang 77:20
7 Terry and Curtis Gleason 77:39
8 Rosalind Archer 77:50
9 Mark, Kit, Nate, Carol, and Ed Perkins,
Bruce and Russ Douglas 81:37
-- Oleg Shakhnovsky DNF
Trail'O
1 Rachael, Dwight, and Joe Freund 9 pts
1 Steve Beuerman 9 pts
1 Brodie Lockard, Michele Thibaudeau,
Kathryn Strachota 9 pts
1 Stacy Robinson 9 pts
2 Alan Glendinning, Meg Gurstner 8 pts
3 Gary Kraght 4 pts
Short Night'O (Partners) 50 min limit
1 Wyatt Riley and Angelica Kisel 17 pts 43:21
2 Rebecca Higgerson and Brian Johnson 10 pts 48:22
3 Dox Doxiadis and Sarah Edwards 8 pts 47:27
4 Linn, Ian, and George Haddock 8 pts 47:53
Short Night'O (Singles) 50 min limit
1 Patty Clemo 13 pts 51:22
2 Aileen Abernathy 9 pts 51:49
3 Stacy Robinson 7 pts 51:35
Long Night'O (Partners) 70 min limit
1 Penny and Harold DeMoss 18 pts 67:18
2 Paul Muench, Steve Louie,
Karen Francis-Lai, John Amma 16 pts 68:45
3 Glenn and Linda Wegner, Linda Palmer 14 pts 69:51
4 Andy, Meredith, Michelle, Nick 12 pts 68:23
Long Night'O (Singles)70 min limit
1 Tapio Karras 27 pts 70:02 (28 - 1)
2 Dan Green 25 pts 67:38
3 Bruce Bassett 23 pts 70:09 (24 - 1)
4 Dennis Wildfogel 23 pts 70:35 (24 - 1)
5 Bob Cooley 22 pts 68:50
6 Scott Aster 20 pts 68:02
7 Hugh Wright 18 pts 68:54
8 Josh Friederichs 17 pts 67:45
9 Andrea Beylen 17 pts 69:03
10 Dave Payne 17 pts 72:07 (20 - 3)
11 Vicki Woolworth 16 pts 67:52
12 Steve Beuerman 15 pts 70:23 (16 - 1)
13 Mark Blair 14 pts 70:46 (15 - 1)
14 Manfred Kopisch 12 pts 78:23 (21 - 9)
15 Evan Custer 2 pts (batteries
lost power)