A-Meet Wrap-up

Despite the terrible weather, hundreds of people had an exhilerating, fun two days at the Club's first national A-meet since 1998, as evidenced by the letter posted on the MNOC web site.

We'd like to congratulate Kathy Bullard and Stefan Spirgi who were the top Club finishers in the World Ranking Event, in 2nd and 4th place, respectively.

Top finishers for the 2-days of A-meet included:

Name		Place		Course		Class
Bev Hartline		1st		Brown		F50+
Sarah Klaben		1st		Brown		F-18
Kevin Teschendorf		1st		Red		M40+
Eugene Backiev		1st		Green		M-18
Jane McIntyre		2nd		Green		F35+
Kathy Bullard		2nd		Red		F-21+
Matthew Ashley		2nd		White		M-10
John Klaben		2nd		White		M-12
Charlie Shahbazian		3rd		Red		M45+
Stefan Spirgi		3rd		Blue		M-21+
Rachel Ashley		3rd		Green		F35+
Elena Backiev		3rd		Green		F40+

Too many Club members to thank individually volunteered to help during this meet. But special notice should go to our Club President Carl Larsson who set the courses both days. Carl spent many hours designing the 14 courses used over the two days. He also visited each control site several times, scouted out the various approach views to ensure the competitors would not be confused by unmapped detail, and then test-ran each leg of each course by different routes. As a result, the Club received excellent reviews from all, despite the inclement weather on both days.

Other volunteers who did outstanding service for the Club included Registrar Michael Collins, Starter Rachel Ashley, T-shirt designer and Intercollegiate Director Dave Macaulay, Equipment Director Viktor Nikolenko, Consultant Mike Minium, Awards Marie Larsson, and all you guys who helped with child care, pre-running and control pick-up in the driving cold rain after running your courses.