Discussion: Boggs bedazzles!
in: Boggs '14 (May 30 – Jun 1, 2014 - Middletown, CA, US)
Jun 10, 2014 4:35 AM
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Full-fledged forest filled with frolicking foot-orienteers forcefully forging forward to the Finish. (Okay, maybe not exactly frolicking.) Sun-soaked sportspersons sprinting stealthily, soundly assessing, smartly scooting, steadfastly sauntering and sometimes slogging steadily up steep, slashy slopes. This was Boggs ’14, a three-day celebration of orienteering blessed by spectacular weather. People from as far away as Norway and Australia joined orienteers from all over North America, testing themselves against detailed terrain with the aid of a newly revised map. A good time, apparently, was had by virtually all.
Eighteen-year old Matej Sebo was the star of the meet, winning handily on Red all three days, and beating all the Blue runners on Friday as well, when Red and Blue shared the same Sprint course. Norway’s Morten Saue won the last two days on Blue. Will Enger (Washington) was second overall on Blue, while Mark Prior finished third in both the Long and the Middle. Francois Leonard was a strong second on Red, over former US Team member Clem McGrath (Pennsylvania). Sixteen year old Gavin Williams finished second behind Matej in M20. In the closest point battle of the meet, Deron van Hoff edged out Paul Carson in M45 by a mere 15 points (out of a possible 3000).
US Team members (and Washington-staters) Tori Borish and Hannah Culberg, soon to compete in the World Orienteering Championships in Italy, traded victories in F21 Long and Middle. With Hannah missing the Sprint, Tori was first overall, with Tori Campbell, also of Washington, second.
Tapio Karras nearly swept Green, with Misha Kreslavsky finishing a strong second. Ohio’s Tom Svobodny won the Green Sprint and finished third overall. Charlie Shahbazian (Wisconsin) made a very strong showing winning M60. Brian Ellis (Canada) swept Brown in impressive fashion. Carl Moore (Washington), the oldest entrant, won M80 and 79-year old Alex Kerr (Canada) won M75.
Marie-Josee Parayre was the top women on Green, edging out Anna Voegele. Cornelia Coolen-Vogt finished first among the women on Green in the Middle and second in the Long. Fourteen year old Julia Doubsen won F20. World Masters Champion Sharon Crawford (Colorado) and Marg Ellis (Canada) were the top women on Brown; each had a day where they finished behind only Brian Ellis. Katie Petersen, only 15, won F18 and is now the top ranked US orienteer in that category.
Ten(!) year old Daniel Sebo finished first overall on Orange, with Sarah Petersen, recovering from leg surgery, being the first overall female on that course. Gian Coolen had the fastest Orange times in the Long and Middle. Kiki Weber finished first overall on Yellow; Australia’s Daniel Gray, who missed the Sprint, had very fast times in the Yellow Long and Middle. The White Course was topped by Norway’s Fritjof Aderstedt-Althof and Anna Campbell of Washington.
It takes a veritable army to put on a 3-day A-meet, and we were fortunate to have many, many volunteers. To the extent that the meet was a success, it was due to the efforts of the following people:
-Course setters Bill and Heidi Cusworth. Doesn’t matter what anyone else does: if you don’t have good courses, you don’t have a good meet. Thanks to Heidi and Bill, we had great courses. They spent more hours course setting than any course setters I’ve ever worked with. They were very responsive to suggestions from the vetters, the course consultant and the ED, revising the courses over and over, improving them with each iteration. They spent 100 hours re-mapping, with great results. They hung controls, got water out on the course, flagged the routes to the various starts, and did it all with enthusiasm and good cheer.
-Vetter Chuck Spalding spent several days at Boggs and filed copious and thoughtful vetting reports that helped improve the courses significantly. At the meet itself, Chuck pitched in in so many ways: setup, cleanup, moving the Start, Beginners Clinic and more. And, as always, Chuck was the main man in keeping the webpage spiffy and up to date.
-Vetter Greg Ehrensing made several trips to Boggs, roaming the park far and wide. Greg was also instrumental in getting equipment from place to place.
-Registrar Trinka Gillis worked on the meet for many months, produced all the necessary start lists, and staffed Registration for many hours all three days.
-Start Crew Chief Steve Haas bore the brunt of my maniacal attention to minutia, always doing what I asked and doing it with good humor. Steve was also pivotal in getting equipment from different places to Boggs, and worked the entire start window all three days, after starting the early runners well before hand. Setup, cleanup, moving the Start from place to place - Steve never stopped working.
-Assistant ED (Long) Marie-Josee Parayre, who effectively became the Assistant ED for the Middle as well and who did a thousand things that needed doing.
-Matthias Kohler, who seemed to be working constantly all three days when he wasn’t out on a course, doing things I asked of him and things I didn’t even think of.
-Trail-O Course Setter Nick Corsano, who made many trips to Boggs and who by all accounts created a truly challenging course in terrain not especially suited to that discipline.
-Steph Maclean, who created the fabulous awards and t-shirts.
-Dan Greene, Assistant ED for the Sprint and radio maven; Parking & Traffic Control Co-Chiefs Vicki Woolworth, Chris Brew and Graham Brew (it was Graham who printed out those speed limit signs); Jay Hann, who was in charge of the Junior Pavilion, brought up all the food and electrolytes, and calculated the scores for the Western States Interscholastic Championships; Gavin Wyatt-Mair and Steve Beuerman, Trail-O ED and Vetter, respectively; Nancy Lindeman, who coordinated camping and the Saturday night Pot-luck dinner; Vladimir Gusiatnikov, USOF Course Consultant, whose suggestions significantly improved the Sprint; and Gary Kraght, assistant Registrar and overall A-meet consultant.
Shout-outs to the Early Runners, Francois Leonard, Bruce Wolfe and Evan Custer at 8:00am on Saturday (who combined to find a mis-hung control in time to correct it), and Greg Walker, Carol Ross Walker, Steve Harrison and Evan again, who went out at 7:00am(!) Sunday (plus Steve Haas, who started them both days); to the Epunch Crew, led by Jeff Lanam, and including Tony Pinkham, George Minarik and Evan Custer, with assistance from pre-teens Daniel Sebo and Gian Coolen; to everyone on the Control Pickup Crews, headed by Theo Verhoeven and Lubo Sebo; Deron van Hoff, who drove around the park for two hours on Friday dropping of water for the courses, then was an early runner for the sprint and then staffed the entrance for Traffic Control; and to all the people in the Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade.
Special thanks to Ranger Gerri Finn, who was cooperative and supportive throughout, to Bob Cooley, who printed 30 lbs (!) of maps, to EMT Joel Bouyea, who not only did what we hired him to do (including initiating two search operations) but, instead of just sitting around, jumped in and helped out with a variety of tasks, and to Erin Schirm, US National Junior Team Coach, who kept the juniors running around happily Saturday afternoon.
People from other clubs pitched in, too, often without being solicited: Shirley and Scott Donald, Mika Latva-Kokko, Tom Svobodny, Rhonda and Charlie DeWeese, and jury volunteers (who were thankfully not needed) Rick Breseman, Clare Durand, Clem McGrath and Rich Parker.
If I’ve forgotten anyone in the alphabetical list of all the volunteers below, please let me know and I’ll make a revision.
Scott Aster, Start Crew, Trail-O jury
Joel Bouyea, EMT, set up
Steve Beuerman, Trail-O vetter
Rick Breseman, jury
Chris Brew, Parking Crew Co-Chief, awards ceremony
Graham Brew, Parking Crew Co-Chief, sign printing, equipment
Cornelia Coolen Vogt, awards ceremony
Gian Coolen, epunch, results posting
Bob Cooley, map production
Nick Corsano, Trail-O course setter
Sheila Cotter, set up, Start Crew, Parking Crew
Sharon Crawford, Trail-O jury & control pickup
Andy Cretcher, cleanup
Evan Custer, Epunch, early runner (twice)
Bill Cusworth, Course Setter
Heidi Cusworth, Course Setter
Charlie DeWeese, Parking Crew
Rhonda DeWeese, Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade
Scott Donald, Parking Crew
Shirley Donald, Parking Crew, Control Pickup
Clare Durand, jury
Greg Ehrensing, Vetter, equipment
Wes Erck, Parking & Traffic Control, Control Pickup
Pete Erwin, cleanup
Sharon Evans, Parking Crew
Gerri Finn, Cal Fire Boggs ranger
Trinka Gillis, Registrar
Peter Graube, Start Crew, Control Pickup
Dan Greene, Assistant ED (Sprint), radios
Steve Gregg, who lent out his personal Finish chute flagging
Vladimir Gusiatnikov, USOF Course Consultant
Steve Haas, Start Crew Chief, equipment, setup, cleanup
Jay Hann, Junior Pavilion, food, drink, equipment, Interscholastic Champs scoring and awards
Mike Hard, Control Pickup
Steve Harrison, award master of ceremonies
Ester Heller, Trail-O timed control
Tapio Karras, Start Crew
Marina Keating, insurance waiver obtainer
Jennifer Kerr, water
Natalie Kim, cleanup, Control Pickup
Susan Kim, Control Pickup
Matthias Kohler, setup, Start Crew, more set up, cleanup, more cleanup
Fyodor Konkov, Control Pickup
Gary Kraght, Assistant Register, A-meet coordinator
Olga Kraght, registration
Misha Kreslavsky, Parking & Traffic Control, Control Pickup
Jeff Lanam, Epunch Crew Chief, equipment
Cedric Lasfargues, Control Pickup
Mika Latva-Kokko, setup
Francois Leonard, Control Pickup, early runner, jury
Nancy Lindeman, Camping and potluck coordinator, Control Pickup
Derek Maclean, cleanup
Steph Maclean, awards production, t-shirt production, awards ceremony, food
Clem McGrath, jury
George Minarik, Epunch, setup, cleanup
Leslie Minarik, setup, cleanup, ED support, Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade
Kent Ohlund, Start Crew
Marie-Josee Parayre, Assistant ED (Long and Middle)
Rich Parker, jury
Janet Petersen, Parking, Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade
Tony Pinkham, Epunch, Control Pickup
Mike Poulsen, Trail-O jury
Erin Schirm, junior orienteering activities
Monica Sebo, results posting, Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade
Daniel Sebo, results posting, epunch, Control Pickup
Lubo Sebo, Control Pickup Crew Chief (Fri), Control Pickup
Matej Sebo, Control Pickup
Chuck Spalding, Vetter, website, setup, cleanup, Beginners Clinic, Start setup, more
Tom Svobodny, Control Pickup volunteer
Deron van Hoff, water, early runner, Traffic Control
Dan Vannatter, Parking Crew
Theo Verhoeven, Control Pickup Crew Chief (Sat, Sun)
Carol Walker, early runner
Greg Walker, early runner
Nik Weber, Start Crew
Sarah Williams, Trail-O timed control
Bruce Wolfe, early runner
Vicki Woolworth, Parking & Traffic Control Co-Chief, equipment, Control Pickup
Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Trail-O ED
Cathy Yekenevicz, Trail-O timed control
At the meet, someone said that the Finish chute was the longest in BAOC history. Only fitting, then, that this final sprint to the finish by the ED is in contention for one of the longest event write-ups ever.
--Dennis WIldfogel, now A-meet ED Emeritus
Eighteen-year old Matej Sebo was the star of the meet, winning handily on Red all three days, and beating all the Blue runners on Friday as well, when Red and Blue shared the same Sprint course. Norway’s Morten Saue won the last two days on Blue. Will Enger (Washington) was second overall on Blue, while Mark Prior finished third in both the Long and the Middle. Francois Leonard was a strong second on Red, over former US Team member Clem McGrath (Pennsylvania). Sixteen year old Gavin Williams finished second behind Matej in M20. In the closest point battle of the meet, Deron van Hoff edged out Paul Carson in M45 by a mere 15 points (out of a possible 3000).
US Team members (and Washington-staters) Tori Borish and Hannah Culberg, soon to compete in the World Orienteering Championships in Italy, traded victories in F21 Long and Middle. With Hannah missing the Sprint, Tori was first overall, with Tori Campbell, also of Washington, second.
Tapio Karras nearly swept Green, with Misha Kreslavsky finishing a strong second. Ohio’s Tom Svobodny won the Green Sprint and finished third overall. Charlie Shahbazian (Wisconsin) made a very strong showing winning M60. Brian Ellis (Canada) swept Brown in impressive fashion. Carl Moore (Washington), the oldest entrant, won M80 and 79-year old Alex Kerr (Canada) won M75.
Marie-Josee Parayre was the top women on Green, edging out Anna Voegele. Cornelia Coolen-Vogt finished first among the women on Green in the Middle and second in the Long. Fourteen year old Julia Doubsen won F20. World Masters Champion Sharon Crawford (Colorado) and Marg Ellis (Canada) were the top women on Brown; each had a day where they finished behind only Brian Ellis. Katie Petersen, only 15, won F18 and is now the top ranked US orienteer in that category.
Ten(!) year old Daniel Sebo finished first overall on Orange, with Sarah Petersen, recovering from leg surgery, being the first overall female on that course. Gian Coolen had the fastest Orange times in the Long and Middle. Kiki Weber finished first overall on Yellow; Australia’s Daniel Gray, who missed the Sprint, had very fast times in the Yellow Long and Middle. The White Course was topped by Norway’s Fritjof Aderstedt-Althof and Anna Campbell of Washington.
It takes a veritable army to put on a 3-day A-meet, and we were fortunate to have many, many volunteers. To the extent that the meet was a success, it was due to the efforts of the following people:
-Course setters Bill and Heidi Cusworth. Doesn’t matter what anyone else does: if you don’t have good courses, you don’t have a good meet. Thanks to Heidi and Bill, we had great courses. They spent more hours course setting than any course setters I’ve ever worked with. They were very responsive to suggestions from the vetters, the course consultant and the ED, revising the courses over and over, improving them with each iteration. They spent 100 hours re-mapping, with great results. They hung controls, got water out on the course, flagged the routes to the various starts, and did it all with enthusiasm and good cheer.
-Vetter Chuck Spalding spent several days at Boggs and filed copious and thoughtful vetting reports that helped improve the courses significantly. At the meet itself, Chuck pitched in in so many ways: setup, cleanup, moving the Start, Beginners Clinic and more. And, as always, Chuck was the main man in keeping the webpage spiffy and up to date.
-Vetter Greg Ehrensing made several trips to Boggs, roaming the park far and wide. Greg was also instrumental in getting equipment from place to place.
-Registrar Trinka Gillis worked on the meet for many months, produced all the necessary start lists, and staffed Registration for many hours all three days.
-Start Crew Chief Steve Haas bore the brunt of my maniacal attention to minutia, always doing what I asked and doing it with good humor. Steve was also pivotal in getting equipment from different places to Boggs, and worked the entire start window all three days, after starting the early runners well before hand. Setup, cleanup, moving the Start from place to place - Steve never stopped working.
-Assistant ED (Long) Marie-Josee Parayre, who effectively became the Assistant ED for the Middle as well and who did a thousand things that needed doing.
-Matthias Kohler, who seemed to be working constantly all three days when he wasn’t out on a course, doing things I asked of him and things I didn’t even think of.
-Trail-O Course Setter Nick Corsano, who made many trips to Boggs and who by all accounts created a truly challenging course in terrain not especially suited to that discipline.
-Steph Maclean, who created the fabulous awards and t-shirts.
-Dan Greene, Assistant ED for the Sprint and radio maven; Parking & Traffic Control Co-Chiefs Vicki Woolworth, Chris Brew and Graham Brew (it was Graham who printed out those speed limit signs); Jay Hann, who was in charge of the Junior Pavilion, brought up all the food and electrolytes, and calculated the scores for the Western States Interscholastic Championships; Gavin Wyatt-Mair and Steve Beuerman, Trail-O ED and Vetter, respectively; Nancy Lindeman, who coordinated camping and the Saturday night Pot-luck dinner; Vladimir Gusiatnikov, USOF Course Consultant, whose suggestions significantly improved the Sprint; and Gary Kraght, assistant Registrar and overall A-meet consultant.
Shout-outs to the Early Runners, Francois Leonard, Bruce Wolfe and Evan Custer at 8:00am on Saturday (who combined to find a mis-hung control in time to correct it), and Greg Walker, Carol Ross Walker, Steve Harrison and Evan again, who went out at 7:00am(!) Sunday (plus Steve Haas, who started them both days); to the Epunch Crew, led by Jeff Lanam, and including Tony Pinkham, George Minarik and Evan Custer, with assistance from pre-teens Daniel Sebo and Gian Coolen; to everyone on the Control Pickup Crews, headed by Theo Verhoeven and Lubo Sebo; Deron van Hoff, who drove around the park for two hours on Friday dropping of water for the courses, then was an early runner for the sprint and then staffed the entrance for Traffic Control; and to all the people in the Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade.
Special thanks to Ranger Gerri Finn, who was cooperative and supportive throughout, to Bob Cooley, who printed 30 lbs (!) of maps, to EMT Joel Bouyea, who not only did what we hired him to do (including initiating two search operations) but, instead of just sitting around, jumped in and helped out with a variety of tasks, and to Erin Schirm, US National Junior Team Coach, who kept the juniors running around happily Saturday afternoon.
People from other clubs pitched in, too, often without being solicited: Shirley and Scott Donald, Mika Latva-Kokko, Tom Svobodny, Rhonda and Charlie DeWeese, and jury volunteers (who were thankfully not needed) Rick Breseman, Clare Durand, Clem McGrath and Rich Parker.
If I’ve forgotten anyone in the alphabetical list of all the volunteers below, please let me know and I’ll make a revision.
Scott Aster, Start Crew, Trail-O jury
Joel Bouyea, EMT, set up
Steve Beuerman, Trail-O vetter
Rick Breseman, jury
Chris Brew, Parking Crew Co-Chief, awards ceremony
Graham Brew, Parking Crew Co-Chief, sign printing, equipment
Cornelia Coolen Vogt, awards ceremony
Gian Coolen, epunch, results posting
Bob Cooley, map production
Nick Corsano, Trail-O course setter
Sheila Cotter, set up, Start Crew, Parking Crew
Sharon Crawford, Trail-O jury & control pickup
Andy Cretcher, cleanup
Evan Custer, Epunch, early runner (twice)
Bill Cusworth, Course Setter
Heidi Cusworth, Course Setter
Charlie DeWeese, Parking Crew
Rhonda DeWeese, Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade
Scott Donald, Parking Crew
Shirley Donald, Parking Crew, Control Pickup
Clare Durand, jury
Greg Ehrensing, Vetter, equipment
Wes Erck, Parking & Traffic Control, Control Pickup
Pete Erwin, cleanup
Sharon Evans, Parking Crew
Gerri Finn, Cal Fire Boggs ranger
Trinka Gillis, Registrar
Peter Graube, Start Crew, Control Pickup
Dan Greene, Assistant ED (Sprint), radios
Steve Gregg, who lent out his personal Finish chute flagging
Vladimir Gusiatnikov, USOF Course Consultant
Steve Haas, Start Crew Chief, equipment, setup, cleanup
Jay Hann, Junior Pavilion, food, drink, equipment, Interscholastic Champs scoring and awards
Mike Hard, Control Pickup
Steve Harrison, award master of ceremonies
Ester Heller, Trail-O timed control
Tapio Karras, Start Crew
Marina Keating, insurance waiver obtainer
Jennifer Kerr, water
Natalie Kim, cleanup, Control Pickup
Susan Kim, Control Pickup
Matthias Kohler, setup, Start Crew, more set up, cleanup, more cleanup
Fyodor Konkov, Control Pickup
Gary Kraght, Assistant Register, A-meet coordinator
Olga Kraght, registration
Misha Kreslavsky, Parking & Traffic Control, Control Pickup
Jeff Lanam, Epunch Crew Chief, equipment
Cedric Lasfargues, Control Pickup
Mika Latva-Kokko, setup
Francois Leonard, Control Pickup, early runner, jury
Nancy Lindeman, Camping and potluck coordinator, Control Pickup
Derek Maclean, cleanup
Steph Maclean, awards production, t-shirt production, awards ceremony, food
Clem McGrath, jury
George Minarik, Epunch, setup, cleanup
Leslie Minarik, setup, cleanup, ED support, Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade
Kent Ohlund, Start Crew
Marie-Josee Parayre, Assistant ED (Long and Middle)
Rich Parker, jury
Janet Petersen, Parking, Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade
Tony Pinkham, Epunch, Control Pickup
Mike Poulsen, Trail-O jury
Erin Schirm, junior orienteering activities
Monica Sebo, results posting, Boggs Bagel and Banana Brigade
Daniel Sebo, results posting, epunch, Control Pickup
Lubo Sebo, Control Pickup Crew Chief (Fri), Control Pickup
Matej Sebo, Control Pickup
Chuck Spalding, Vetter, website, setup, cleanup, Beginners Clinic, Start setup, more
Tom Svobodny, Control Pickup volunteer
Deron van Hoff, water, early runner, Traffic Control
Dan Vannatter, Parking Crew
Theo Verhoeven, Control Pickup Crew Chief (Sat, Sun)
Carol Walker, early runner
Greg Walker, early runner
Nik Weber, Start Crew
Sarah Williams, Trail-O timed control
Bruce Wolfe, early runner
Vicki Woolworth, Parking & Traffic Control Co-Chief, equipment, Control Pickup
Gavin Wyatt-Mair, Trail-O ED
Cathy Yekenevicz, Trail-O timed control
At the meet, someone said that the Finish chute was the longest in BAOC history. Only fitting, then, that this final sprint to the finish by the ED is in contention for one of the longest event write-ups ever.
--Dennis WIldfogel, now A-meet ED Emeritus
Jun 10, 2014 8:42 AM
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Thanks, Dennis, for the enjoyable write-up and for putting on a really fine meet.
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