MVOC Junior Orienteering Championships - Practice Event

Nov. 14, 2003 - Englewood MetroPark

Weather: 30-45° & sunny

Attendance: 133 in 71 groups

Thanks for meet assistance: Sharon Bond, Jon Rauschenbach, Josh Berna, Larry Berna, Mike Minium, and Steve Barnhart

The courses were left in place after the meet for the following day's Turkey Hunt. Competitors can compare their results with others who ran the same course the next day. Fairborn High School teams attended on Saturday.

Course Appropriateness Comments

The courses are graded in length and difficulty by color. The sequence from easiest to hardest is white, yellow, orange, and green. White, yellow, and orange are developmental courses with increasing levels of distance and navigational challenge. The green course is set at the expert navigational level. The red course is for veteran orienteers at the expert level. The blue course (when it is offered) is for elite orienteers. They are set at the same technical level as the green course but longer and with a greater percentage of climb.

The top 1/3 of finishers on a course (not counting OT's) should consider moving to the next higher course. Finishers with an OT or DNF should move to an easier course and master it (top 1/3) before moving higher. Competitors on the green course should be confident enough in their navigation to run the entire course.

Some teams were disqualified. The reason for the disqualifications were that the course was run in the reverse order (same reason on Saturday). The controls are not set to be run out of sequence or backwards and be appropriate for that course. When taken out of sequence or backwards controls can be easier or more difficult to locate due to the approach direction, and the leg from control to control does not offer the proper navigational choices and challenges for that course's level of expertise.

Trophy Standings

Wayne HS entered two cooperative teams on the green course. While this is allowed, cooperative teams on the green course do not factor into trophy standings. On the green course, only teams comprised of individuals count toward trophy standings.

Practice event Trophy Standings.

Results

In the result tables below:

GHS = Greenville High School JROTC

Greene = Greene Academy AJROTC

HHS = Hamilton High School JROTC

CWHS = Colonel White High School JROTC

WHS = Wayne High School JROTC

MHS = Meadowdale High School

OCIN = Orienteering Cincinnati club

OT = Overtime

DNF = Did not finish (- number of missed controls)

DSQ = Disqualified

Matt Bond

Meet Director

White Course (Length 2.1 Km, Climb 42 m, 8 Controls)

T. Miller & Julie Gibbs

GHS

70:07

Phillips, Callaway, & Tatum

Greene

73:27

Hastings, Hicks, & Houston

Greene

75:03

Yellow Course (Length 3.6 Km, Climb 48 m, 8 Controls)

Jackson & Gray

HHS

56:34

Phu & Weaver

CWHS

57:57

Roberts & Bozeman

CWHS

62:22

Lambert & Jackson

CWHS

63:41

Owens & LaRue

CWHS

64:22

John Lowery

HHS

66:24

Jeremy Taylor

HHS

67:57

Kendall Blankenship

HHS

67:59

White & Pottenger

HHS

72:47

Duncan & Baker

HHS

72:57

Apodaca & Courtois

HHS

81:37

Lehman & Lehman

CWHS

83:53

Hume & Riley

HHS

85:36

Shepard & Love

CWHS

90:01

Hooper & Barton

CWHS

95:32

Calloway & Barton

CWHS

96:32

Shantel & Wilkinson

CWHS

OT (126:57)

Holder & Crager

WHS

OT (129:21)

Mays & Bass

CWHS

OT (130:15)

Smith & Moss

CWHS

OT (131:31)

Jackson & Arnold

CWHS

OT (132:40)

Mays & Benton

CWHS

OT (133:00)

McGill & Tripp

CWHS

OT (133:44)

Edmond & Dunson

CWHS

OT (138:26)

Ewing & Williamson

CWHS

OT (140:16)

Wallace & Williams

WHS

OT (144:49)

Stephanie Burque

WHS

OT (146:51)

Samuels & Hart

CWHS

OT (147:30)

Amber McKittrick

WHS

OT (151:09)

Kehler & Cummings

MHS-3

OT (157:53)

White & McKenzie

WHS

OT (159:56)

Weaver & Johnson

WHS

OT (168:47)

Wade, Brazil, & Carpenter

MHS-1

OT (194:40)

Brown & Jeffs

WHS

OT (204:30)

Brock & Bartee

WHS

DNF (-2)

Crump & Love

CWHS

DNF (-3)

Moore, Smith, Ebert

CWHS

DNF (?)

Morris & Flournoy

CWHS

DNF (?)

Higgins & Thames

CWHS

DNF (?)

Brooks & Shea

WHS

DNF w/ new card

Brooks & Shea

WHS

Lost Card

Ferry & Weaver

WHS

Lost Card

Cohen & Jurdan

WHS

DSQ

Blankley & Kavanaugh

WHS

DSQ

Orange Course (Length 4.2 Km, Climb 72 m, 10 Controls)

Wei Wei & Ossa Sun

CWHS

59:19

Fugate & Riechers

HHS

78:21

Lange & Puckett

HHS

82:37

Norrod & Washington

WHS

OT (126:18)

Retherford & Roark

HHS

OT (126:26)

Whiting, Holmes, & Foster

MHS-2

OT (127:36)

Collins & Poynter

WHS

OT (128:30)

Ortel & Smith

WHS

OT (129:18)

Nick Leverenz

HHS

OT (136:18)

Collins & Pruitt

WHS

OT (185:18)

Noury & Lopez

WHS

OT (191:10)

Adams & Wheeler

WHS

DNF (-5)

Brandon Thompson

HHS

DNF (-5)

Enicks & Halley

GHS

DNF (-9) & lost card

Wilson & Bacon

WHS

DNF w/ new card

Wilson & Bacon

WHS

Lost Card

Myers & Evans

GHS

Lost Card

Green Course (Length 4.6 Km, Climb 66 m, 12 Controls)

Daniel Klepper

WHS

68:07

Joel Elkins & Ryan Pennington

WHS

OT (181:27)

Randy Jones

WHS

DNF (-1)

Andrew Hershner, Matt Pack

WHS

DNF (-5)

Jeremy Smith

HHS

DNF (-6)

Matt Dawson

HHS

DNF (-6)

Orlando Vilches

WHS

DNF (-11)

Red Course (Length 6.3 Km, Climb 90 m, 14 Controls)

Mike Minium

OCIN

59:10

Jon Rauschenbach

OCIN

91:39