Beaver Brook Reservation, Waltham, MA
April 8, 2018
Meet Director: Jim Crawford
Youth Series Event Directors: Pia Webb and Wendy Johnecheck 

Today’s event was the 2018 NEOC season opener with sprint courses for the “regular” seasoned orienteers, and the Boston Youth Orienteering Series for the younger crowd. It was a great day to be out in the woods; the snow was finally gone and the leaves were not yet out making the woods runnable and the controls easy to spot! Beaver Brook is a great park for people learning how to navigate with open fields, a merry stream, and just the right amount of woods to make it fun to orienteer without the risking of getting too lost. The park is also conducive to high running speeds making it easy to make silly mistakes for the runners trying to make good times on the sprint courses.

We had many youth and families starting the day with the mini-demo station where coaches introduced beginners to map reading and worked on improving the technique of more advanced runners using short 1-4 control courses providing ample opportunities for feedback. It was fun to see how quickly many picked up on how to read the map, breezing through the demo-courses, and heading out on the real courses with great enthusiasm!

All in all, there were over 200 starts with many runners doing both two and three courses. The event attracted a wide range of participants including the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School team in new snazzy uniforms, students from the Philips Academy in Andover, speedy kids from the EMBK ski and the Waltham track clubs, a scout group from Rhode Island getting ready for the scout-orienteering next week, local families, a couple of Brazilian orienteers helping out teaching orienteering while experiencing life in the US, two British families with small kids working in Cambridge, several “regulars”, and many, many more I didn’t have the opportunity to talk to.

The next event in the Youth Series will be at Danehy Park in Cambridge, an open park with many ball fields and playgrounds to navigate around, on Sun May 6th. Each event in the Youth Series is a freestanding event so you can come even if you didn’t participate in the first event. Instruction and coaching will be available for runners of all levels. There is also a NEOC event at Nobscot Scout Reservation in Sudbury next Sunday, April 15th, if you can’t wait until next month to try orienteering again. Finally, the CSU park-orienteering series starts on April 19th for those who are available to run in parks around central Boston on Thursday nights (information on csu.attackpoint.com).

Registration is open for the spring season of the new Greater Boston Youth Orienteering Team Training for youth interested in more regular orienteering training. There will be team training sessions at local orienteering events on Sundays, May 6 – June 17, where coaches will focus on developing navigational skills, fitness running, and teaching youth to independently compete on age-level orienteering courses. Pre-registration is required ($40 for spring session; see Greater Boston Youth Orienteering Team under the NEOC Youth tab). Beginners are welcome.

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Splits are available for White, Yellow, Orange, Sprint1, Sprint2 (courtesy of Attackpoint).

White 1.1 km 12 C
Name Club Time
1 Mori Finlayson NEOC 8:05
2 Owen Baumann 8:08
3 Hunter - 9:02
4 Frido - 9:36
5 Joseph Lawrence 9:47
5 Aaron - 9:47
7 Liam - 9:57
8 Jack - 10:00
9 Kirsten Pryor 11:15
10 Stephen Cooley 11:59
11 Tor Webb CSU 12:23
12 Sebastian Ruiz NEOC 13:00
13 Pablo Ruiz NEOC 13:01
14 Carl Cooper 13:34
15 Luke Napoliband 13:44
16 Anika Currie 14:09
17 Maelle Mantoan 15:02
18 Westley Roguz 16:03
19 Chiara Mantoan 16:04
20 Susan Mahan 16:20
21 Sarah Kirincich 16:21
22 Yahli Shpinner 16:27
23 Lucy Pryor 16:41
24 Lily Springer NEOC 17:55
25 Sid - 18:56
26 Abby Kirincich 19:39
27 Steve Kirincich 20:23
28 Janet Riley 20:41
29 Noah Baumann 21:02
30 Mary-Ann Fitzpatrick 23:24
31 Donald Wallace 24:38
32 Emmett Cook NEOC 25:06
33 Bridget Roguz 27:33
34 Tim Kronewitter 28:49
35 Russel - 46:20
36 Mattie Rothman NEOC 46:36
37 Daniel Elder 46:43
38 Sebby Elder 46:58
Leigh Niedeck mp
Sheila Niedeck mp
Hannah Petersen mp
Yellow 1.5 km 13 C
Name Club Time
1 Gil Shapiro NEOC 12:29
2 Mori Finlayson NEOC 13:31
3 Jarmo Latva-Kokko NEOC 14:20
4 Stephen Cooley 14:51
5 Aaron Lawrence 17:15
6 Pablo Ruiz NEOC 17:19
7 Joseph Lawrence 17:20
8 Sebastian Ruiz NEOC 17:33
9 Noah Baumann 19:10
10 Max Currio 19:52
11 Frido - 20:30
12 Hunter - 20:32
13 Liam - 20:35
14 Sierra Springer NEOC 22:55
15 Abby Kirincich 23:20
16 Susan Mahan 23:24
17 Bianca - 23:58
17 Birgitta - 23:58
19 Steve Kirincich 24:09
20 Emily+Natalie - 24:15
21 Colby Napoltano NEOC 26:05
22 Luke Napoliband 26:52
23 Bea Flusueu 26:54
24 Bridget Roguz 28:20
25 Mary-Ann Fitzpatrick 28:21
26 Sarah Kirincich 28:50
27 Jennifer Fitzsimmons-Gauger NEOC 29:30
28 Will Butler 30:10
29 Henry - 30:32
30 Lucy Pryor 33:05
31 Maelle Mantoan 33:11
32 Daphne Caroline NEOC 34:18
33 Karen Walrath NEOC 35:37
34 Erica Durbin NEOC 40:13
Emma Tilghman mp
Orange 1.8 km 16 C
Name Club Time
1 Kristen Hall NEOC 11:48
2 Bridget Hall NEOC 12:41
3 Anja Meichsner NEOC 13:16
4 Alex Vai NEOC 13:38
5 Brett Anderson NEOC 15:18
6 Nick Townley NEOC 16:45
7 Max Currie 17:19
8 Frido Group 18:33
9 Sylvie Guichard NEOC 18:59
10 Owen Baumann 20:16
11 Sarah Hughes NEOC 21:35
12 Suzanne Robinson NEOC 23:27
13 Trisha Underwood NEOC 24:02
14 Westley Roguz 25:12
15 Wesley McCarty NEOC 25:54
16 Dilon Taylor 25:55
17 David Quinn NEOC 26:48
18 Emily+Natalie - 27:21
19 Ian Anderson NEOC 29:09
20 Ken Menzies NEOC 30:04
21 Gerardo Segura 31:55
21 Jack Thomseo 31:55
23 Stephen Cooley 32:29
24 Nancy LeClair NEOC 37:26
25 Bea Flusueu 38:53
26 Leslie Gloyd NEOC 39:23
27 Chris Noon NEOC 40:41
28 Holmberg Hop NEOC 41:11
29 Kirsten Pryor 42:30
30 Chiara Mantoan 42:58
31 Gregory Khrapunovich NEOC 44:12
32 Emmett Cook NEOC 44:15
33 John Mitchell NEOC 46:28
34 Lukas Nemet 48:15
35 Diane Menzes NEOC 1:05:15
Justin Wiley mp
Sprint1 2.4 km 20 C
Name Club Time
1 Klaas Mellebeek 13:05
2 Alex Rothman NEOC 13:25
3 Vilppu Viinikainen NEOC 14:51
4 Alan Elder 15:45
5 Bridget Hall NEOC 16:25
6 Josivan Juan NG 16:38
7 Alex Vai NEOC 16:46
8 Rick Kielty 16:52
9 Mike Springer NEOC 17:04
10 Bryant Izzy NEOC 17:42
11 Gabriella Dantas Franco NEOC 18:15
12 Jeff Saeger NEOC 18:26
13 Kristen Hall NEOC 18:37
14 Mark Sinks 18:57
15 Michael Hughs NEOC 19:10
16 Jackson Codd NG 21:28
17 Neil+Dashiell - NEOC 21:49
18 Mark OConnell NEOC 23:02
19 Dean Sturtevant NEOC 24:09
20 Mike Fay 24:19
21 Kelly Guarino NEOC 24:33
22 Xavier Fradera NEOC 24:54
23 Bob Dangel NEOC 25:07
24 Jim Paschetto NEOC 25:37
25 Brett Anderson NEOC 25:48
26 Richard Powers NEOC 26:24
27 Karen Yeowell NEOC 26:30
28 Anna Rasmussen NEOC 26:40
29 Ian Anderson NEOC 26:46
30 Mark Webb CSU 29:17
31 Peter Amram NEOC 29:34
32 Judy Karpinski NEOC 32:59
33 Roger Underwood NEOC 35:37
34 Barb Anderson NEOC 37:39
35 Richard Shapiro NEOC 41:13
Anika Landrigan NEOC mp
Sprint2 1.9 km 22 C
Name Club Time
1 Alan Elder 14:31
2 Klaas Mellebeek 15:44
3 Evgeny Ivanov NEOC 18:15
4 Alex Vai NEOC 18:42
5 Michael Hughs NEOC 19:19
6 Maria Bloom NEOC 19:54
7 Rick Keilty 20:35
8 Justin Wiley 22:17
9 Mika Latva-Kokko NEOC 24:25
10 Kelly Guarino NEOC 24:55
11 Jim Paschetto NEOC 25:56
12 Xavier Fradera NEOC 26:10
13 Yana Galukima NEOC 27:07
14 Bob Dangel NEOC 27:18
15 Mark OConnell NEOC 30:00
16 David Quinn NEOC 33:17
17 Peter Amram NEOC 33:27
18 Karen Yeowell NEOC 33:32
19 Suzanne Robinson 37:04
20 Sarah Hughes NEOC 39:36
21 Barb Anderson NEOC 44:10
Alex Rothman NEOC mp
String 
Name Club Time
1 Frido - 4:00
2 Liam - 4:02
3 Egor Ivanov NEOC 4:13
4 Egor Ivanov NEOC 4:14
5 Lukas Webb CSU 4:23
6 Jack - 4:24
7 Tor Webb CSU 4:28
8 Hunter - 4:37
9 Max Currio 6:07
10 Nkosi - 6:15
11 Trey - 6:44
12 Donald Wallace 8:09
13 Anika Currie 10:21
14 Connor - 14:45
15 Tory Masterson 17:42
16 Aviva Bloom 20:14
17 Sebby Elder 26:43