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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:

• Kevin got his A-license!
• Gaddy broke 500 jumps and is now eligible for his D-license and tandem rating!
• Doug xtreme broke 200 jumps
• Sweetpea broke 100 jumps
• Many VT skydivers made their FIRST helicopter jump!
• The club made a 2 point 12 way, completed by 8k!
• Ian won the New Years Eve drunkoff
• Almost everyone ended up in the swoop pond, whether they wanted to or not
• We returned to the infamous seafood restaurant where Chewbacca was born, and somehow managed to avoid being kicked out for another year

Everyone had a great time, hopefully we will be able to do it all again next year in Eloy, Arizona!

Bridge Day 2006

School year: 2005-06

April 10th

• Ian hit the peas for the FIRST time
• SweetPea's FIRST jump on the PD190
• Freshman made a tandem
• Eight VaTech students made their FIRST plunge
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April 3rd

• Kevin completed his second tandem
• Ghog received his tandem rating
• Woolly, Christie, Prickles, and Freshman drove down to Asheville, North Carolina for a spectacular Mofro concert
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March 27th

• Jamie and Prickles threw down with the DC crew
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March 21st

• Beligijen received her A license
• Ian earned the falcon award
• Sweet Pea won safety Day Jeopardy
• Taylor, Lady Prickles, and Justin's birthday
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March 13th

• Ian successfully completed A license recurrency
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March 1st

• Jamie, Gaddy, Prickles, and Freshman tripped down to CSS,
  rocketed in the new Pack750XL, experienced the joys of
  GPS spotting, and rodeo'ed 26 mph winds
• Louis, Freshman, Emily, and Casey spun a web
• Gaddy won the Tiger award
• Jamie had a 270 degree, 0 ft. swoop
• Prickles was violated by a pork rind
• Full Story

February 21st

• Woolly Day was a big success (in its own Woolly sort of way!)
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February 13th

• Birthday Bonanza for SweePea, Wool-e, and Jamie!
• Full Story

February 6th

• Despite grounding weather at West Point, the coach's course was everything but whuffo'ish. Sessions lasted from sunrise to sunset, with intense coverage of material and extensive coach/student roll-playing.
• Pending a couple evaluation jumps, Prickles, Christie, and
  Freshman will be shot hot coaches!
• Club thank you to John Wade, Jim Crouch, Pam Young, Christine Bruchac, and our own Groundhog for taking us to the next level.

February 2nd

• Weekly Update

January 23rd

• Weekly Update

Week of January 16th

• Woolly's Weekly Winter Wake-up Wordage

New Year's - Collegiates & Z-hills

• Jamie took the Gold Medal in the Master's Class of Sport Accuracy!
• Jen graduated AFF and made some incredible coach jumps with Gaddy and Justin.
• Donkey Xtreme passed 100 jumps, and also landed in a swamp, and made sure everyone knew about it.
• Sweet Pea smiled in freefall for the first time, on the 9-way!
• Jamie, Gaddy, Kevin, Microphone-Head, Ryan Turner, Woolly, Taylor, Donkey Xtreme, Groundhog, and Captain Sprinkles jumped wearing nothing but man-thongs, with Abbey and Christie lurking and Justin shooting video.
• Gaddy, a.k.a. Chewbaca passed 400 jumps.
• Justin passed 300 jumps, and in honor of Woolly, made it a freefly jump.
• Christie made her first tracking dive.
• Microphone-Head has his first off landing.
• Abbey, Kevin, Prickles, and Justin made a 22,000 foot jump on New Year's Day. 1 minute and 52 seconds of freefall!
• On his 69th jump, Taylor got his FALLatio number with Wiggle.
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November 21st

• Woolly made his 1000th jump, and was pied on 3 seperate occassions with about 15 pies.
• Prickles made his 200th jump.
• Hardcore Charlie made his 5000th jump.
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