By Göran Hellgren (LAOC), Event Director
A big thank you to all who helped out with Stage 2, and for the trust in me as event director. Thanks, Rex, for your support on everything from how BAOC operates to map printing and more. Thanks, Blake, for all your hard work on the courses and control setup. And huge thanks to Jay Hann and Sarah Williams — without you, things would have been way harder. You made it all run smoothly! I also want to give a big shout-out to all the volunteers who helped with setup, starts, control pickup, and everything else that needed doing.
Some reflections on how it all came together: After I agreed to take on the role as event director, we were told we couldn't hold the Sprint race in the Northstar Village. After a bunch of back-and-forth emails, we were eventually given access to the area northwest of the village — but with a condition: we had to avoid conflicts with mountain bikers. Amy Warren, Northstar's event manager, stepped in and helped us get everything sorted so we could go ahead with the event. Big thanks to her!
When Blake and I met up in early July, we realized the upper portion of the map hadn't been properly updated since 2006 (aside from a few sections). We spent two days doing some urgent map revisions, mainly focusing on trails and vegetation boundaries. After that, we worked out the courses.
After the final registration deadline, we saw that 79 people had signed up for the Long course, which would've made the forest pretty crowded. So we added a Middle-distance course, which turned out to be very popular, and helped spread folks out.
The day before the race, we set out the controls and SI units — not realizing it was going to snow overnight. (Cold weather is rough on batteries!) Three SI units died because of battery issues, but Blake was on standby at the Start, and fixed things pretty quickly once we found out.
Despite the snow, everyone finished their courses and seemed happy. Control pickup went smoothly. The next day, I went back out to collect some leftover flags and a forgotten sign.
Lessons learned:
- Cold weather drains batteries fast — so think carefully about when to set out SI units.
- If the route to the Start is complicated, hand out maps showing the way.
Beginner Course
(2.5 km, 45 m climb, 13 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind lost (See "Time lost" note above)
1 Janne Denzler OL Zimmerberg 26:09 2:50
2 Polina Biryukova LAOC 39:07 12:58 9:35
3 Liv Sundstrom BAOC 45:42 19:33 9:40
4 Atle Sundstrom BAOC 46:06 19:57 9:42
5 Shane family CHSOC 49:53 23:44 6:51
6 Aleksander Ingulfsen RMOC 50:32 24:23 12:08
7 Wayne Cottrell LAOC 52:43 26:34 18:09
8 Matti Denzler OL Zimmerberg 55:16 29:07 20:37
9 Katerina Biryukova LAOC 1:00:16 34:07 21:24
10 Rosemary Johnson BAOC 1:18:15 52:06 36:30
11 KT Mize 1:35:17 69:08 41:09
12 Dietrich & Mary Schultz 1:35:18 69:09 41:20
13 Alina Greavu AOC 1:38:03 71:54 38:01
14 Winners LAOC 1:42:53 76:44 50:55
15 H L Have Fun 1:57:43 91:34 62:20
Amy McBride DNF
Andrin Denzler OL Zimmerberg DNF
Darick McBride DNF
Gary Hermansen, Erin Golec DNF
Anne Brinkman BAOC DNS
Anson Mei DNS
Competitor 144 DNS
Darius Greavu AOC DNS
Isabella McDonough CTOC DNS
Karina Greavu AOC DNS
Nancy Lindeman BAOC DNS
Short Course
(2.9 km, 60 m climb, 9 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind lost (See "Time lost" note above)
1 Radu Greavu AOC 40:04 3:59
2 Steve Gregg BAOC 43:29 3:25 1:31
3 Werner Haag BAOC 50:36 10:32 2:28
4 Ann Bergstrom LAOC 54:14 14:10 6:03
5 David Enger COC 54:49 14:45 2:48
6 Alison Weber GCO 1:04:03 23:59 8:46
7 Neivayah Creager OCIN 1:06:00 25:56 9:45
8 Christopher Ryan RMOC 1:08:12 28:08 17:31
9 Mike Chin LAOC 1:09:45 29:41 2:09
10 Lliam Reeder CSOC 1:16:11 36:07 22:34
11 Chris Daunt 1:19:39 39:35 19:03
12 Ardis Dull COC 1:26:45 46:41 8:20
13 Evan Custer BAOC 1:31:03 50:59 4:23
14 Johanna Merriss BAOC 1:31:15 51:11 23:46
15 Rebecca Bruns CROC 1:47:41 67:37 10:24
16 Dan Greene BAOC 1:48:56 68:52 10:09
17 William Nguyen BAOC 1:50:48 70:44 14:22
18 Christopher Ngan COC 1:50:58 70:54 16:06
19 David Shepherd VOC 1:51:24 71:20 4:43
20 Scott Drumm CROC 1:51:43 71:39 5:23
21 Patty Royal VOC 1:52:02 71:58 22:43
22 Recinda Sherman LAOC 1:52:24 72:20 22:46
23 Karen Murphy LAOC 1:56:21 76:17 9:17
24 Cash McIntyre CHSOC 1:56:23 76:19 15:12
25 Mia Ngan COC 1:58:02 77:58 18:32
26 Sarah Williams BAOC 2:08:18 88:14 9:39
27 Isabella Pantoja CHSOC 2:16:17 96:13 39:17
28 Piper Jensick CHSOC 2:16:41 96:37 39:33
29 Chloe Suitt-Payne CHSOC 2:16:51 96:47 14:54
30 Brian King 2:17:58 97:54 12:13
31 Shawn Gray OCIN 2:34:51 114:47 34:10
32 Peregrin Falcons 3:05:17 145:13 31:14
BLC 3 DNF
Brian Beffort DNF
James Brady DNF
Jeff Lanam BAOC DNF
Julie van Hoff BAOC DNF
Dennis Wildfogel BAOC DNS
King Team DNS
Sheila Cotter BAOC DNS
Middle Course
(4.0 km, 100 m climb, 15 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind lost (See "Time lost" note above)
1 Ursula Haldi OLG Galgenen 52:48 6:27
2 Petra Sundstrom BAOC 53:40 0:52 2:21
3 Adrian Owens GMOC 1:01:39 8:51 18:17
4 Vladislav Urbanovskiy LAOC 1:02:38 9:50 8:21
5 Olga Urbanovskaia LAOC 1:03:58 11:10 9:34
6 Kostiantyn Riabchuk 1:05:53 13:05 9:31
7 Ross Burnett GVOC 1:07:59 15:11 18:43
8 Melissa Smith BAOC 1:14:16 21:28 5:42:36
9 Brian Durrell ARCTIC 1:20:37 27:49 25:15
10 Eileen Breseman COC 1:20:38 27:50 28:24
11 Olga Boiarynova BAOC 1:21:22 28:34 26:06
12 Michael Minium OCIN 1:21:39 28:51 24:07
13 Ing Uhlin COC 1:24:41 31:53 30:00
14 Michael Bruns CROC 1:25:05 32:17 11:58
15 Dylan Gonyer OCIN 1:25:11 32:23 25:29
16 Thor Sundstrom BAOC 1:25:52 33:04 5:45:36
17 Sue Kuestner COC 1:34:32 41:44 42:12
18 Rick Breseman COC 1:38:11 45:23 44:30
19 QWC BAOC 1:46:20 53:32 6:03:30
20 Eugene Kiperman LAOC 1:51:09 58:21 6:06:13
21 Adrianna Stone CROC 1:53:18 60:30 6:03:50
Kyle Poland NAVX DNF
Peyton Creager OCIN DNF
Ronald Solbrig BAOC DNF
Tessa Simonds QOC DNF
Yunying Chiu BAOC DNF
Long Course
(5.0 km, 120 m climb, 16 controls)
Time
Pl Name(s) Club Time Behind lost (See "Time lost" note above)
1 Patrick Denzler OLG Galgenen 45:33 29:45
2 Carl Hoel BAOC 45:44 0:11 2:54
3 Josef Neumann USV TU Dresden 47:43 2:10 5:43:48
4 Alex Pichler RMOC 50:33 5:00 18:08
5 François Léonard BAOC 50:49 5:16 5:41:32
6 Samuel Kolins DVOA 51:32 5:59 3:19
7 Mikhail Biryukov LAOC 54:39 9:06 9:59
8 Roland Hansson LAOC 55:48 10:15 31:58
9 Patrick Field QOC 56:20 10:47 22:38
10 Sergey Velichko CTOC 56:47 11:14 7:58
11 Ilia Serov AOC 57:50 12:17 5:53:05
12 Justin Smith BAOC 58:34 13:01 7:18
13 Ourii Karni BAOC 58:36 13:03 4:29:51
14 Brendan King RMOC 1:00:57 15:24 10:27
15 Alexander Kiperman LAOC 1:03:40 18:07 4:34:04
16 Ann Marie Cody RMOC 1:04:47 19:14 11:41
17 Sergey Biryukov LAOC 1:04:50 19:17 7:41
18 Taylor Pospisil BAOC 1:05:29 19:56 33:21
19 Gavin Williams BAOC 1:06:09 20:36 21:48
20 Tom De Vre BAOC 1:06:32 20:59 10:13
21 Tapio Karras BAOC 1:07:16 21:43 4:22
22 Jonathan Owens Truckee 1:07:39 22:06 19:42
23 Jeffrey Goodwin BAOC 1:13:06 27:33 23:28
24 Emily Ellsworth BAOC 1:14:40 29:07 29:14
25 Mark Prior SDO 1:15:41 30:08 34:22
26 Matteo Guareschi BAOC 1:19:19 33:46 6:21:03
27 Deron van Hoff BAOC 1:21:09 35:36 34:30
28 Misha Kreslavsky BAOC 1:22:49 37:16 23:18
29 Marie-Josée Parayre BAOC 1:27:58 42:25 41:02
30 Ambrose Liu BAOC 1:29:27 43:54 4:31:45
31 Olof Sundstrom BAOC 1:29:30 43:57 4:45:13
32 Derek Maclean BAOC 1:31:29 45:56 35:49
32 Martin Drott NTOA 1:31:29 45:56 35:26
34 Gavin Wyatt-Mair BAOC 1:31:34 46:01 45:32
35 Matthias Kohler BAOC 1:33:42 48:09 4:35:46
36 Noa Dannaker OCIN 1:33:49 48:16 5:59:38
37 Nik Weber GCO 1:34:21 48:48 13:53
38 Anne Struble OUTAH 1:35:12 49:39 32:34
39 Anna Shane CHSOC 1:37:30 51:57 6:08:32
40 Chuck Spalding BAOC 1:40:28 54:55 4:36:47
41 Patrick Carvalho BAOC 1:43:09 57:36 6:37:28
42 Theo Verhoeven BAOC 1:49:04 63:31 37:58
43 Josh Munic BAOC 1:52:07 66:34 49:39
44 Lena Kushleyeva DVOA 1:52:30 66:57 4:41:26
45 Weichun Fong BAOC 1:54:41 69:08 42:28
46 Alison Stone CROC 1:55:32 69:59 6:28:23
47 Logan Perez LAOC 1:57:28 71:55 1:04:09
48 Bruce Corning LAOC 2:12:29 86:56 6:11:24
Kat L BAOC DNF
Rex Winterbottom BAOC DNF
Rob Field QOC DNF
Stephanie Maclean BAOC DNF
Daphne Zhang SDO DNS
Dean Redfearn NEOC DNS
Hunter Wang SDO DNS
Jerry Skirvin BAOC DNS
2025 Summer Series Results
The scores and standings after Event #4 in the BAOC Summer Series — Northstar at Tahoe — are below.
Before the scores, however, a huge thank you to Tahoe Event Coordinator Rex Winterbottom, Event Director Goran Hellgrun, and Course Setter Blake Tresan, and all the volunteers who made the eent at Northstar possible.
Also, a bit of explanation is needed. The Tahoe weekend attracted a large number of visitors from outside the Bay Area, which was fabulous to see, and their participation is truly appreciated. It has also led to a a slight deviation on how the Summer Series scores for this event were calculated. Clearly a lot of the visitors are not truly competing in the BAOC Summer Series — and will have competed in only the two Tahoe-based events of the Series. So, whereas technically they earned points in those events, including them in the scores could be problematic. This is because some of the visitors were clearly very competitive and recorded impressive finishing times. Including them in the scoring could have the effect of substantially reducing the scores of many other folks. (This is due to the handicapping system used to compute the scores as described elsewhere.) This in turn would "diminish" the impact of the two Tahoe events on the overall scoring (remembering that the Series is scored overall on each competitors best four events of the Series).
After careful consideration, it has been decided that this "diminishment" effect is undesirable, and not in the spirit of the Summer Series. Therefore, the competitors who will have taken part in only the two Tahoe events — and no other events of the Series — are not included in the scores and standings. And you will see they have been removed from the tables presented below.
This decision was taken in consultation with several other club members (and I appreciate their input), but I alone take full responsibility for the decision and the resulting adjustments. I know this was not announced in advance (I perhaps could have foreseen it, but I did not), so it feels a bit ad hoc. But I do think it is the right thing to do. If I have inadvertently removed anyone from the scores that should have been included, please let me know and I'll reprocess the results.
With all that said, the scores from Event #5 (Donner State Park on July 28) pose an additional twist. During the event one of the controls was moved by a member of the public, resulting in unfair conditions. Adjustments are currently being made in the interests of fairness, and hence it will take a little more time to process those scores.
Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about any of the above. And I look forward to seeing everyone at Event #6 at Evergreen Valley College on August 9th. See the event webpage for details.
Graham Brew
BAOC Summer Series Coordinator
Summer Series Points at This Event
Short Course: Event #4 Points
Pl Name Points
1 Steve Gregg 1000
2 Werner Haag 876
3 Evan Custer 633
4 Johanna Merriss 617
5 Alison Weber 557
6 Dan Greene 407
7 Sarah Williams 346
8 William Nguyen 330
Long Course: Event #4 Points
Pl Name Points
1 François Léonard 1000
2 Carl Hoel 991
3 Tapio Karras 834
4 Ann Marie Cody 791
5 Ouri Karni 785
6 Justin Smith 751
7 Tom De Vre 738
8 Chuck Spalding 695
9 Misha Kreslavsky 678
10 Taylor Pospisil 675
11 Gavin Williams 665
12 Deron van Hoff 660
13 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 657
14 Emily Ellsworth 645
15 Matthias Kohler 629
16 Marie-Josée Parayre 625
17 Jeff Goodwin 616
18 Derek Maclean 585
19 Matteo Guareschi 554
20 Theo Verhoeven 530
20 Olof Sundstrom 530
22 Patrick Carvalho 496
23 Ambrose Liu 492
24 Nik Weber 466
25 Weichun Fong 398
26 Josh Munic 392
Summer Series Standings After Four Events
Event Directors and Course Setters receive credit for their service. Points earned by those credits are annotated below with "ed" or "cs", respectively.
Event Abbreviations (links to results):
PSF = Presidio of San Francisco;
SMC = St Mary's College;
DVC = Diablo Valley College;
NCR = Northstar California Resort
Short Series: Event #4 Standings
Pl Name PSF SMC DVC NCR Total Events
1 Steve Gregg 1000 875 1000 1000 3875 4
2 Werner Haag 897 715 617 876 3105 4
3 Sheila Cotter 801 903 606 2310 3
4 Dennis Wildfogel 953 1000 1953 2
5 Sarah Williams 532 549 520 346 1947 4
6 Irena Stefanova 714 700 522 1936 3
7 William Nguyen 526 577 500 330 1933 4
8 Evan Custer 631 566 633 1830 3
9 George Minarik 632 738 433 1803 3
10 Vicki Woolworth 795 795ed 1590 2
11 Rosemary Johnson 488 514 461 1463 3
12 Dan Greene 438 499 407 1344 3
13 Jeff Lanam 432 483 395 1310 3
14 Neville Fernandes 446 417 403 1266 3
15 Nick Corsano 614 604 1218 2
16 Scott Aster 598ed 598 1196 2
17 John Blakkan 368 464 337 1169 3
18 Johanna Merriss 524 617 1141 2
19 Mark Schneider 538 580 1118 2
20 Alfredo Fernandez 822 822 1
21 Steve Beuerman 411 409 820 2
22 Jonah Marne 804 804 1
23 Shawn Huang 400 318 718 2
24 Thor Sundstrom 702 702 1
25 Ronald Yeung 592 592 1
26 Phil Lacroute 578 578 1
27 Alison Weber 557 557 1
28 Dennis Cryor 532 532 1
29 Katy Robinson 434 434 1
30 Matthias Kohler 427 427 1
31 Anne Brinkman 351 351 1
32 Fred Toh 325 325 1
33 Clara Staats 323 323 1
34 Anna Staats 315 315 1
35 Wei Zeng 288 288 1
36 Jonas De Vre 264 264 1
37 CK Tran 253 253 1
Long Series: Event #4 Standings
Pl Name PSF SMC DVC NCR Total Events
1 François Léonard 1000 1000cs 1000 1000 4000 4
2 Chuck Spalding 650 905 893 695 3143 4
3 Theo Verhoeven 844 728 802 530 2904 4
4 Ambrose Liu 681 729 871 492 2773 4
5 Tom De Vre 710 453 751 738 2652 4
6 Evgeny Kachanovsky 950 784 860 2594 3
7 Jeff Goodwin 797 947 616 2360 3
8 Drew Taplin 765 802 768 2335 3
9 Emily Ellsworth 739 876 645 2260 3
10 Marie-Josée Parayre 685 891 625 2201 3
11 Gary Kraght 647 761 706 2114 3
12 Jason Lee 605 704 664 1973 3
13 Yurii Konovalenko 996 968 1964 2
14 David Colman 566 666 694 1926 3
15 Matteo Guareschi 670 669 554 1893 3
16 Derek Maclean 651 641 585 1877 3
17 Olga Kraght 638 648 566 1852 3
18 Greg Khanlarov 963 860 1823 2
19 Weichun Fong 666 740 398 1804 3
20 Paul Roome 906 868 1774 2
21 Graham Brew 848 908 1756 2
22 Wayne Staats 816 936 1752 2
23 Rex Winterbottom 827 907 1734 2
24 Josh Munic 620 683 392 1695 3
25 Tapio Karras 833 834 1667 2
26 Ouri Karni 808 785 1593 2
27 Taylor Pospisil 866 675 1541 2
28 Kathleen Lan 709 737 1446 2
29 Matt Marlow 733 683 1416 2
30 John Richardson 685 686 1371 2
31 Gavin Wyatt-Mair 687 657 1344 2
32 Patrick Carvalho 790 496 1286 2
33 Marie De Vre 442 430 354 1226 3
34 Olof Sundstrom 657 530 1187 2
35 Michael Robinson 561 599 1160 2
36 Steve Haas 572 555 1127 2
37 Sean Robinson 342 742 1084 2
38 Nik Weber 591 466 1057 2
39 Phillip Hoare 502 546 1048 2
40 Alex Dubinchyk 479 562 1041 2
41 Jinwen Xu 463 576 1039 2
42 Wyatt Riley 1000 1000 1
43 Carl Hoel 991 991 1
44 Joshua Zhanson 466 519 985 2
45 Petra Sundstrom 963 963 1
46 Andrew Peterson 907 907 1
47 Rhonda Stieber 416 481 897 2
48 Liam Reeder 446 442 888 2
49 Tac Sugiyama 862 862 1
50 Jerry Skirvin 493 368 861 2
51 Piper Jensick 345 505 850 2
52 Tyler Williams 839 839 1
53 Eric Rosenzweig 818 818 1
54 James Arthurton 807 807 1
55 Miroslav Trubelja 370 427 797 2
56 Ann Marie Cody 791 791 1
57 Liubov Pitko 776 776 1
58 Enxun Wei 418 357 775 2
59 Justin Smith 751 751 1
60 Quincy Rosenzweig 748 748 1
61 Stephanie Maclean 686 686 1
62 Shengye Wang 295 391 686 2
63 Misha Kreslavsky 678 678 1
64 Lubomir Šebo 673 673 1
65 Gavin Williams 665 665 1
66 Deron van Hoff 660 660 1
67 Jan Cisar 659 659 1
68 Daria Titkina 655 655 1
69 Matthias Kohler 629 629 1
70 Chris Haney 619 619 1
71 Anna Shane 616 616 1
72 Marte Hoff Hagen 604 604 1
73 Ray Rosenbaum 580 580 1
74 Geoffrey Sears 577 577 1
75 Christopher Wray 532 532 1
76 Catherine Olsson 527 527 1
77 Logan Sternberg 508 508 1
78 Mirjana Spasojevic 487 487 1
79 Yuqi Li 460 460 1
80 Julie Minton 459 459 1
81 Claudia Montijo 441 441 1
82 Olga Boiarynova 438 438 1
83 Ellen Mouchawar 427 427 1
84 Roopa McNealis 422 422 1
85 Anna Staats 414 414 1
86 Jamie Maclean 405 405 1
87 Anders Oedlund 404 404 1
88 Nisha McNealis 386 386 1
89 Jacob Deandheur 342 342 1
90 Isabella Pentoja 341 341 1
91 Akira Ramirez 330 330 1
92 Emily Suitt-Payne 326 326 1
93 Luyuan Lin 298 298 1
94 Cash McIntyre 296 296 1
95 Steve O'Keefe 284 284 1
Brian Ritchken 0cs 0 1 (CS credit points pending)
Matej Šebo 0cs 0 1 (CS credit points pending)
DNF
= Did not finish (one or more controls
missed)
DNS
= Did not start
DSQ
= Disqualified
MSP
= Mispunched (one or more incorrect
controls)
OVT
= Overtime