Patuxent River Park

Course results can be seen below. Splits are available on Attackpoint or Winsplits.
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Flickr photo album for this event is here.

This event celebrated QOC’s successful completion of the 2023 – 2024 season with our 48th Annual Chase at Patuxent on a beautiful late Spring day along Patuxent River for 166 individual and group registrants and over 214 total participants during our first Chase event at Patuxent River Park. We had great mix of veterans and beginners – some just getting their first look at orienteering. Our fastest times on the three-loop Blue course were Will Hubsch (male) and Diana Aleksieva (female).
Thanks to Dave Linthicum, who looked into the history a bit further, we can confirm that the QOC Chase is the oldest non-championship orienteering event in the United States.
On the business side of things, we held our Annual General Meeting and bid farewell with many thanks to outgoing Board Member and Virginia VP Charles Carrick, outgoing Board Member Michael Dickey, and outgoing Maryland VP Craig Shelden. We elected Board Members and Officers, welcoming new Maryland Vice Presidents for Events Reiko and David Rager and new Virginia Vice President Dennis Doherty. QOC welcomed returning Officers: President Don Fish, Maryland Vice President for Permits Mike Newman, Virginia Vice President Matt Smith, Treasurer David Levine, Secretary Beátri Bennett, and Immediate Past President Jody Landers.
Nothing of this scale happens without teamwork – this event is no different. Some of the volunteers that made this great event happen:

• Park permit, drone permissions, and insurance: Mike Newman
• Event webpage, registration and drone procurement: Greg Lennon
• Set up, banners, chute set up, pop ups: David and Reiko Rager, Martin Houghton, Steve Camp
• Beverage Team: Jody and Cecilia Landers, Peggy Brosnan, Misti and Alan DeLong
• Course design: Nadim Ahmed
• Check in: Harry Jones, Steve Camp
• Early Starter Management: Nadim Ahmed, Martin Houghton, and Steve Camp
• Parking Control: Martin Houghton
• Beginner Instruction: Chris Silva and Dan Lathrop
• Potluck Leader: Sharmagh Yepremian
• Potluck Game Day Organizers: Kathleen Lennon, Max Lennon, Kayleen Rice, and many more
• Grill: Susan Shoemaker, John Landers, Scott Sharp
• Photographers: Nadim Ahmed, Charlotte Banfield, Lexie Brown, Francielo Dalla Costa, Greg Lennon, Kathleen Lennon, Sharmagh Yepremian
• T-Shirts Design and Distribution: Lexie Brown
• Social Media and Event Promo: Kathleen Lennon
• String-O: Charlotte Banfield, Dasa Merkova, Seneca and Dominik Honzak, Max Ahmed, Max Lennon, and Kayleen Rice
• E-punch: Amy Louden, Valerie Meyer
• Map Printing and Sealing – Valerie and Roger Meyer
• Post-Run Hose Downs: Greg Lennon
• Control pick up: Kim Jepsen, Mathias Holmqvist, Suzanne and Courtney Shelden, Jane Leggett; with special shout outs to: Michal Jarnik, Howie Weinstein, and Linnea Morres for volunteering to pick up controls during the picnic…and also Nadim Ahmed who not only hung all the controls – but went back out and picked several of them up.
• Clean up and Pack out: Don Fish, Reiko and David Rager, Heidi and David Onkst, Kathleen and Greg Lennon

Special thanks to Don Fish, Jody Landers, and Beátri Bennett for organizing and leading the Annual Meeting; and to Kathleen Lennon and Sharmagh Yepremian for organizing the volunteer recognition ceremony.
These events often go by in a blur – and everyone pitches in to some extent – Thanks to everyone for making our first Chase event at Patuxent a success!
If you would like to serve as a meet director or course setter at one of our upcoming events, please contact David Rager, Reiko Rager or Matt Smith.
It’s always a tremendous privilege to work with our dedicated volunteers and see this event come together so successfully.
Thank You!
- Craig Shelden, Event Director