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After arguably the best USPA National Collegiates Parachuting
Competition in Eloy Arizona, it's time for us to get back
to reality and the cool weather. Out of all the competitors
Virginia Tech brought to competition this year Andrew managed
to bring home the SILVER in Novice Sport Accuracy, Congratulations.
Among our other competitors included
- 4-Way team "Mad@Gravity" with Jamie, Doug,
Sweetpea, and Kevin with video by Selena Marks
- 2-Way team with Andrew and a fellow college student
from K-State
- 6-Way Speed Team with Jamie, Doug, Sweetpea, Kevin,
Andrew, and Christian
- Freefly team with Gaddy and Christian
- Sport Accuracy with Jamie (Master's), Sweetpea (Intermediate),
and Andrew our SILVER medalist in Novice
Along with competition some other notable achievements
included
- Andrew and Kevin getting their B Licenses
- Christian getting his B and C license
- Kevin getting his 100th jump from the DC-3 and getting
pied and thrown in the pool for it
- Sweetpea hitting 200 jumps
- Sweetpea's numerous side splitting one-liners
- And locking in 3.5 wonderful hours in the SkyVenture
Wind Tunnel
Overall everyone seemed to have a wonderful time and hopefully
next year in Texas we can bring even more people and win
more medals. Click Here
to see pictures from the competition.
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Upcoming Events
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Every Monday
- 7pm, Interest Meeting @
TOTS
, Please Email skydive@vt.edu
if you plan on coming
Every Saturday and
Sunday
- Tandem classes offered
at Adrenaline Air Sports at 8, 10, 12, 2, and 4
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Some previous accomplishments:
October 7
- Sweetpea, Klars, Kevin, Abbey and Prickles cranked out some
awesome jumps including some 17+ point 4-ways
September 30
- Andrew and Kevin jumped their NEW RIGS
September 23
-Check out the Collegiate
Skydiving Website
Doug and Jamie with recent Tech alumni Prickles, Abbey, and
Kevin Turnau along with Bob Atkins, Larry Rogina, and Jim Shorter
form the VT Logo at Chambersburg as a 4/16 memorial with Selana
Marks as video
"The Late James Brown" w/ Chris Spence flying
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Jamie swoops the pond at Zephyrhills, Florida |
Freshman centers target in Sport Accuracy |
Jamie exits the Otter during a Sport Accuracy Round
Collegiates 2006
Happy New Year skydivers! Many fun times were had
over break when we traveled from Virginia to Florida to compete
in the USPA National Collegiate Parachuting Championship 2006!
(2006- booooo, 2007- yaaaay!) This year’s collegaites marks
the last time for a few years that the event will be held in Florida,
and we made sure to leave our mark. We were fortunate to be very
well funded by the school so we all made a lot of jumps! Competing
teams included:
- 4-way team “The Late James Brown”: Jamie, Doug
xtreme, Freshmen, and Reid (from Georgia Tech) with Chris Spence
flying camera
- 2-way team “Wild Turkeys”: Sweetpea and Sam Pitts
(from Shippensburg Univ.)
- Freefly team “Air Miami” SILVER MEDALISTS: Gaddy
and Mike
- Sport Accuracy: Jamie won BRONZE in master’s class,
Freshmen won SILVER in intermediate class.
 After
the competition and banquet where we caused a truly skydiverly
ruckus and drank overpriced beer, we all headed over to Skydive
City in Zephyrhills for the New Years boogie. There we enjoyed
three otters, a casa and even a helicopter to keep us in the air
all day. A few of the many memorable accomplishments were:
Everyone had a great time, hopefully we will be
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