This year's event and social on the Stanford campus was a great success. Over 160 people turned out to enjoy the fine weather (quite a pleasant change from last year's social event). The Stanford Orienteering Club hopes everyone enjoyed themselves, and thanks everyone who helped out. See the complete results below.
Quite a few newcomers came and tried the beginner courses. On White, Dan Eggerding led the 21 entries with a time of 36:30, over two minutes ahead of the second place group. Maria Kourakina had a very similar time of 36:14 on Yellow to win the Yellow course, leading by a minute.
On the Orange course, Victoria Lee, who has recently rediscovered orienteering, edged Al Parmantier and Phil Lovalenti by 25 seconds, with a time of 35:11. The Score-O course was won by Vladimir Gusiatnikov, who grabbed 25 of the 26 controls with 47 seconds left in the 60-minute time limit. Doug Stein and Francois Leonard both found 23 controls, to take second and third, respectively.
Sticking to tradition, the Night-O was again a 50- or 70-minute Score-O. On the 50-minute time limit, Vladimir again took the top place, finding 18 of the 20 controls and coming in 11 seconds overtime (to lose one point). He narrowly beat Evan Custer, who returned with 16 controls and just over a minute left. On the 70-minute Night-O, Thorsten Graeve easily located all 28 controls with over 5 minutes remaining. His closest competition came from Juha Heinonen and Tapio Karras, who both finished with 27 controls, but were 7 and 9 seconds overtime, respectively.
In the evening, there was a great turnout for the annual social. Olivia Graeve made sure that we didn't end up with only desserts, as we did last year. There was a lot of really good food. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, and at one point we all tooks turns introducing ourselves. There was even a small group of people still talking when I left to go home.
And during the social, the 2002 Distinguished Service Award was given to Harold and Penny DeMoss (well, not in person, as they couldn't make it). They volunteer at almost every meet they go to, even if they don't run. In particular, they are the backbone of our control pickup crews at most events. Congratulations, Harold and Penny.
I'd like to thank all the people who helped out on Saturday. I may have missed some of you while I was running around, but here are the ones that I know of:
Pl Name Time
WHITE COURSE (2.7 km, 9 controls)
1 Dan Eggerding 36:30
2 William & Connor Brew 39:14
3 Rhonda Clark, Jim Muteau 39:38
4 Kriszy, Lyssie, Emmy 41:47
5 Anne & Caleb Ling 42:58
6 Dom Linda 44:40
7 James & Feliz group 49:39
8 Annie Scott, Meghan Palu, Ana Jaworski 54:44
9 Nathan & Antonio Martinez 55:53
10 Jolly Powell 55:55
11 Diane Hall, Rebecca Stamm 59:22
12 Corey & Alison Lane 65:18
13 Stephanie McCain, Alex Diaz,
Talina Velazquez 65:23
14 Eli Parsons, Loret Ruppe 70:50
15 Michelle Shannon 72:00
16 Srishti, Anil & Rani Prakamya 72:15
17 Alex & Evan Pendleton 75:49
18 Brenna, Katrina, Kendra 91:45
19 Barbara Robben, Wilma Leonard 115:56
20 Lisa & Evan Green 126:34
Antanas & Balys Ragenas DNF
YELLOW COURSE (3.6 km, 11 controls)
1 Maria Kourakina 36:14
2 Dwight Freund 37:18
3 Angerbauer family 46:27
4 Laura Ackerman, Amanda Chu 49:12
5 Andrea, Douglas, Adriana & Roland Shepherd 51:31
6 Carol Johnson 54:55
7 Rob, Margarita, Jennifer & Rebecca Re,
Ana Marie Boenig 58:43
8 Robert & Elsa Carvalho 61:45
9 Frank Perez 63:42
10 Rani Agrawal, Loret Ruppe 70:04
11 Michelle, Dan, Matthew & Benjamin Conway 94:06
Liaw family DNF
ORANGE COURSE (4.8 km, 14 controls)
1 Victoria Lee 35:11
2 Al Parmantier, Phil Lovalenti 35:36
3 Nick Corsano 39:00
4 Doug Adler 39:14
5 Mike Fleishman 39:49
6 Gary Kraght 40:15
7 Danny Yang 42:25
8 Stew Hintz 43:37
9 Christine Pan, Virginia Hsu 45:30
10 Cathy Bolger, Ken Renworth 50:28
11 Scott Spears 55:03
12 Abby Wolfe 56:08
13 Marsha Jacobs 58:50
14 Dewey & Rose DuMond 61:29
15 Barbara Straka 63:14
16 Ky-Van Lee, Don Mahurin 63:28
17 Al & Jane Phillips 68:14
18 John Pagendarm 73:36
19 Helen Sabin 75:28
20 Carl & Aleene Reisinger 77:53
21 Audrie Faist 80:50
22 Nancy Lindeman 81:27
23 Judy Koehler 84:10
24 British Babes 84:51
25 Jeff & Alex Boenig 101:07
26 Marla Stein, Karl Amo 116:23
Paul Akin DNF
Lozinski & Von Turkovich group DNF
SCORE-O COURSES Time Controls OT Score
60-MINUTE DAYTIME COURSE (26 controls)
1 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 59:13 25 25
2 Vadim Masalkov 59:12 24 24
3 Doug Stein 58:03 23 23
4 Francois Leonard 59:58 23 23
5 Chuck Spalding 55:58 22 22
6 Theo Verhoeven 59:32 20 20
7 Andrejus Masalkovus 59:27 19 19
8 Denis Kourakin 61:09 19 -2 17
9 Scott Spears 54:02 15 15
10 Cathy Bolger, Ken Renworth 54:29 14 14
11 Mike Angerbauer 56:32 13 13
12 Marie-Josee Parayre 58:48 13 13
13 Jeff Lanam 54:06 11 11
14 Steve Beuerman 61:35 13 -2 11
15 Craig Benson 62:00 13 11
16 Niloy Jyoti Mitra 56:33 10 10
17 Yerneni family 58:27 10 10
50-MINUTE NIGHT-O COURSE (20 controls)
1 Vladimir Gusiatnikov 50:11 18 -1 17
2 Evan Custer 48:57 16 16
3 Stew Hintz 46:42 15 15
4 Rex Winterbottom 54:15 20 -5 15
5 Bjorn Widerstrom 49:06 14 14
5 Trinka Gillis 49:06 14 14
7 Jill Seaman 47:16 13 13
8 Jeff Lanam 42:35 10 10
9 Judy Koehler 44:21 8 8
10 Steve Beuerman 53:47 12 -4 8
11 David Takacs 47:22 7 7
12 John Pagendarm 45:43 6 6
13 Al & Jane Phillips 51:04 8 -2 6
70-MINUTE NIGHT-O COURSE (28 controls)
1 Thorsten Graeve 64:44 28 28
2 Juha Heinonen 70:07 27 -1 26
3 Tapio Karras 70:09 27 -1 26
4 Tony Pinkham 68:41 24 24
5 Dennis Wildfogel 72:12 27 -3 24
6 Brad Wetmore 65:52 22 22
7 Doug Adler, Victoria Lee 68:19 22 22
8 Steve Haas 67:34 21 21
9 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 67:59 21 21
10 Dan Greene 67:45 19 19
11 Abby Wolfe 67:20 14 14
12 Laura McKeegan, Rob Clima 67:34 13 13
13 Nancy Lindeman 72:01 10 -3 7
14 Wendy Wyatt-Mair, Lauren Aragon 88:12 4 -19 -15
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DNF = Did Not Finish
OT = Overtime penalty