Florida Orienteering
Moss Park / Split Oak Forest
October 4th, 2004
Course Designer: Arild Orsleie
Event Coordinator: Mike & Marilu Dempsey


Courses: WHITE | YELLOW | ORANGE | BROWN | GREEN | RED | NOTES

What a day. Beautiful weather and a great turnout. Our hard-working helpers were swamped at the Registration table. Even though we don't officially start until 10am, we had quite a few eager people turn up before 9am, and started signing people up at 9:30. The huge crush then caused a long wait for many at the Start table.

We had a record 140 teams start; considerably more than usual. That translates into over 375 people. In fact, the turnout was so large that we ran out of clue sheets for both Red and Orange courses, and some participants had to copy the control letters and symbols onto their yellow cards.

There is some confusion about what a "group" consists of. That catagory is for Scouts, ROTC, or other groups where there is a person reponsible for overseeing one or more teams of competitors. Families, or any other group of people competing together as a team, fill out the "individual" sign in sheets.

Once again we saw a lot of people attempting courses that they were not ready for. This can be seen from the large number of teams that failed to complete the advanced courses. Check out the Red course results! Completing a less advanced couse will teach more about Orienteering than getting lost on an advance course. Please help us avoid a future Search and Rescue ending to what should have been a great day. Check the guidelines on the FLO website, and choose the course that fits your abilities and knowledge.

I was one of the first people to go out on the Green course. As a result, I scared up a few deer (2 different groups) on my way to control 3. Apart from the deer I didn't see any more wildlife until I got back into Moss Park. There I saw 2 groups of Sandhill Cranes trying to charm food from some of the picknickers.

Many thanks to all those who helped out. Arild Orsleie manned the Advanced Start/Finish desk all day, while Tim Orcutt manned the White/Yellow. Grizeldis Lutz and Michele Morse, both new to orienteering, helped Marilu brave the crowds and frantic pace of the Registration desk, while Bob Putnam and Ray Bruneau gave helpful instruction to those that wished to learn a little more about the sport. At the end of the day Joe Malisewski helped Rick and Tim Orcutt to retreive all the controls.

Our thanks also go out to the JROTC group who supplied us with a large tray of sandwiches. There were some grateful volunteers and at least a couple of very happy families who arrived back completely famished after a hard day of orienteering.

Our Second Annual Food Drive, for the benefit of Second Harvest Food Bank, was a great success. We collected a total of 206 pounds of food; more than twice the amount we collected last year. We were rather suprised to see a sign at the park entrance proclaiming THEIR food drive in aid of Second Harvest. What a coincidence ... I hope this didn't confuse too many people ... but if it did, the end result was the same anyway.

Mike Dempsey


WHITE

Name Time
Sarasota HS #2 17:40
Sarasota HS #1 20:40
Worscheck 41:00
Troop 225 #1 42:25
Troop 225 #2 46:40
GS Troop 796 50:00
Troop 560 #1 50:40
Yoemans (6) 52:15
JJ Richards (6) 52:30
Jim Rotolo (6) 52:30
Jerry Gordon 52:30
GS Troop 27 #2 54:10
GS Troop 796 #2 59:00
Pack 248 #2 66:20
GS Troop 27 #1 81:20
Holley 144:00
Pack 248 #3 DNF

YELLOW

Name Time
Titusville HS #1 23:02
Nettlow (6) 30:00
Jacob Rausch 30:14
Cypress Creek HS #1 33:30
Sarasota HS #2 34:11
Sarasota HS #1 35:25
Matt Sharkey (4) 43:10
Michele Morse (4) 43:20
Bates 45:30
Gulf HS #2 47:24
Richard Cale (4) 47:40
Delinda Hood & Scott (2) 50:05
Gulf HS #1 52:24
Marilu Dempsey & G. Lutz 55:27
Pack 248 58:45
Sebastian River HS 66:44
Skinner (6) 70:00
Cypress Creek HS #2 94:30

ORANGE

Name Time
Wilheim / Escue 42:19
Kornegay / Soto 43:27
DoHnuts #1 48:18
Walenty Prytulo 49:11
Lisa Maitland 51:21
Eric Swiercinsky 52:05
Flynn / Metallo 53:11
Christina Martinez 55:28
McVickor 59:05
Vaughn 60:40
Borah 64:55
Jeff Barton 70:41
John Rodemeyer 74:06
Christina Royer 80:09
Adam Johnson 80:10
Troop 524 (Panthers) 80:55
Criner 81:38
Rampi 84:49
Abee / Nye 84:50
J Bergh & V Mahan 89:35
Milward 89:40
Caruso 91:15
Auburndale HS #2 96:30
Auburndale HS #3 97:15
Troop 524 (Troop 71) 97:40
Rodney Counts 97:50
Linda Schmid 100:15
Gulf HS #3 (Hudson) 109:32
Gibbs HS #1 109:32
Outdoors & Active 109:55
Auburndale HS #1 111:55
Durjan / Mehalik 114:25
Troop 524 (Dragons) 115:23
Collier 118:04
Oviedo HS #1 125:50
J&J Strong 126:45
Turner / Matthews 133:20
GS Troop 869 135:55
Oviedo HS #2 162:50
Troop 560 166:05
Metzenroth DQ
S Komanski DNF
Williamson DNF
Gibbs HS #2 DNF
Gibbs HS #3 DNF
Gibbs HS #4 DNF
Gibbs HS #5 DNF
Gibbs HS #6 DNF
Gibbs HS #7 DNF
Sarasota HS #3 DNF

BROWN

Name Time
Ray Bruneau 105:23
Bret Barker 106:41
Rod Price 134:10
Schwieterman / Ray 142:45
Kevin Jimenez OT
Al & C Little DNF
Sarasota HS #4 DNF

GREEN

Name Time
Derek Bohn 57:55
Toby Henson 87:31
Steve & Julie Royer 94:45
Mitch Jarvis 94:58
Dennis Godber 115:52
Jataya Taylor 120:46
Shane Keys 129:14
Mike Dempsey 137:25
M & A Rosenberg 142:54
Adam Hugoboom 153:17
D & C Clayburn 156:20
Chip Luck OT
Dan Bauder OT
Lawson / Bennett DNF
Jeff Misa DNF
Auburndale HS #4 DNF

RED

Name Time
Bob Putnam 66:18
Arthur Intson 84:10
Chris Johnson 90:21
David Shuman 99:41
Fabio Roberti (Dave O) 107:14
Somers 114:25
W Murphy 130:35
David Brault 130:35
John Sherwin 161:43
Luther Barnes (184:55) OT
Andrea Holman (195:30) OT
Dirty Fish (214:45) OT
Lou Chizlett (223:50) OT
Lane Sheppard (226:47) OT
Bev Ousley DNF
Jim Septer DNF
Joe Maliszewski DNF
Team Gecko DNF
K. Anderson (BCHS) DNF
N. Branam (BCHS) DNF
P. Brown (BCHS) DNF
A. Diaz (BCHS) DNF
H. Hoopes (BCHS) DNF
B. Mann (BCHS) DNF
T. Mulhern (BCHS) DNF
J. Mulhern (BCHS) DNF
K. Owens (BCHS) DNF
H. Rogers (BCHS) DNF
P. Scott (BCHS) DNF
R. Vargas (BCHS) DNF
C. Yakes (BCHS) DNF


NOTES

DNF   Did Not Finish
DQ Disqualified (Missed Controls)
OT Over 3 Hour Time Limit


Created 05-October-2003